JAMES M. EMMERLING

If the fool persists in his folly he becomes wise~WM. BLAKE

James M. Emmerling

James M. Emmerling
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''Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand?'' William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Holy Thursday ........................................... ''Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor; Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.'' ''"And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love,''

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DECEMBER 5, 2011 5:09PM

My Day in a Nutshell.

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(FOR JANE & CHOMSKY)

Hamlet:
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a
king of infinite space—were it not that I have bad dreams.

Guildenstern:
Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very
substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

 

Had to schlep across town today to see my APRN at my mental health clinic . Was up at 6 a.m.  but appointment not til 2:10 pm. Went on os a bit. Showered. Shaved. Considered wearing my sportscoat today, but 60 degrees out! Settled on black lightweight jacket. Left home at 10 a.m. due to intense boredom with only myself as company. And of course noam Chomsky, he was in my head cuz I had to write a response to jane smithee on her facetime with the Master.  Lots of controversy re. Chomp, I found out. Chomp good people, I say. Redefined the human mind in cognitive scientific terms, took us out of BF Skinner’s damn rat cages. He’s a bit of a lunatic politically, but who cares.

 

damn that chomp. he said:

 The engineers were putting together interviews with Bob Dylan from about 1966-7 or so (judging by the references), and I was listening (I'd never heard him talk before -- if you can call that talking). He sounded as though he was so drugged he was barely coherent, but the message got through clearly enough through the haze. He said over and over that he'd been through all of this protest thing, realized it was nonsense, and that the only thing that was important was to live his own life happily and freely, not to "mess around with other people's lives" by working for civil and human rights, ending war and poverty, etc. He was asked what he thought about the Berkeley "free speech movement" and said that he didn't understand it. He said something like: "I have free speech, I can do what I want, so it has nothing to do with me. Period." If the capitalist PR machine [term used in the question] wanted to invent someone for their purposes, they couldn't have made a better choice.

 

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Went to the library. Two hours to kill til noon, when I would start my sojourn. What the hell to do? Returned overdue true blood season 3 dvd’s.  ha, true blood a fine show.  Fernsie’s post re. Nazis disturbed me cuz I been chained up plenty. Had to gather my wits for a reply.

 

Yesterday, with os slower than a snail’s grandfather, I got to reading again. I used to read plenty. Would raid the library & get 10 books, take em home.  Once in awhile I would read cover to cover. These days I skim cuz I already know what is in the books anyway cuz they are my books, I just let the library hold em for awhile.

 

At library, got some dh Lawrence, some blake, some GERMAN POETRY, and uh, also, heinrich heine’s prose works. Oops, thought heine was more modern, like maybe a Mann . read about steppinwolf yesterday, seems to be something I should read someday. I am german. Love Goethe, who, by the way, eschewed sex til he was 40. He wrote faust, which is what the world is all about. Man selling his soul for knowledge of the Infinite. Goethe wrote a very odd part 2 to faust. Very very odd indeed.

 

Anyway dr faust figured out that he should create some condos for poor people on swamp land, in the end. Then he was satisfied. Really!

 

At library read about the trial of William Blake for sedition. It is f-ing hilarious. Soldier came into blake’s garden, blake took offense to something, escorted the guy out by the shoulders, took him back to his unit, deposited him there, then the guy said blake said bad shit about the King. Which blake did all the time, by the way, back when he was a revolutionary cat, in the 1780’s when france & America were erupting. Blake saved tom paine’s ass, they say, helped get him outta the country.

 

Blake was cleared. The village people cheered. His lawyer’s name was Rose, guy caught a cold & died within a yr. blake’s patron, a stuffy bore, came through for blake, even though the day he was to testify, he unfurled an umbrella whilst on a horse & was thrown & shoulda died but his hat saved him, he said. Big hat of some kind.

 

Ventured across town. Saw two guys i knew from the shelter back in 09. One guy living in the woods for 3 yrs. Only goes inside when things get bad, in the winter. I said, ‘’what is bad”? he said 2 ft of snow.

 

‘ya got a girlfriend,” I said.

“workin on it. you?” he said. He was on his bike. Old bike. Nobody steals old bikes.

“nah.”

“what about that girl ?”
“who,s., from the shelter,” I laughed.

 

“yeah, what happened? You get rid of her?”

“nah, she got rid of me. I still hear about her. Saw her at my clinic. She’s very skinny now.’’

“I heard she was bipolar”

“oh yeah. Bipolar, bisexual, alcoholic, anorexic, she got issues”

“stay away from those bipolar bitches,” he advised. Guy looks like Howdy Doody.

 

Other guy was a potbellied silent guy whom I always projected grace & simplicity unto. He hid from the world behind purple sunglasses.

 

Went across town, met with aprn, who got me in early. I sit & listen to her complain about the system & say “if it aint broke don’t fix it “  (re. me) & “lets look at yer labs. Huh. Nothing wrong with you. “

 

Unbelievable.

 

Cholesterol= 168.

 

Liver kidney cbc fine. Plus I am losing weight nicely. Love handles almost gone.

So pleased w/ myself, I call sister L to crow.

 

“that’s great. How about the ratio?”

“good. Very good.” Dammit, forgot to ask. Bad vs good cholesterol.

I asked her how the event went last night. She went to see the dogwhisperer.

“we were in the balcony. Couldn’t hear or see much. He’s a very small man. Hispanic”

‘’ah. Any dogs on stage?”

“well, yeah. A pit bull. His. Amazing what he could do.” Blah blah, re dogs. I asked about my nephew georgie. He had his picture taken w/santa this weekend.

 

‘’ he’s been choking ever since, jimmy. Went apeshit over santa. I yanked him too hard, I think. On his choke collar.”

Etc.

 

Home on the bus. A magnificent guy was helping out his friend over the phone. Gray ponytail, Harley Davidson t shirt, eyes of a Christ. ‘’you gotta tell me what’s wrong. I am tryin to help u” he kept saying.

 

Home to my room. Os.

 

Insanity is smashin' up against my soul
You could say I was on anything but a roll
If I had a conscience, well I just might blow my top
What would I do with it anyway, maybe take it to the pawn shop.

My heart's in the highlands at the break of dawn
By the beautiful lake of the black swan
Big white clouds like chariots that swing down low
Well, my heart's in the highlands, only place left to go

 

dylan, "highlands"...from 'love & theft' released 9/11/11.huh.

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damn that Chomp.

wonder what his damn cholesterol is.

dylan's?
Nice day in the life post. Wonderful that you're healthy and feeling fine. Love reading D.H. Lawrence.
Rated.
yeah me too, s.

fine is what i am that is for sure. our gal has lung problems, alas.


lawrence;

Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable sodding rotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering palsied pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery its a marvel they can breed. They can nothing but frog-spawn — the gibberers! God, how I hate them! God curse them, funkers. God blast them, wish-wash. Exterminate them, slime.
I could curse for hours and hours — God help me.
Letter to Edward Garnett,
JE, I could read your shit all day. For someone who doesn't do shit (like me) you live an interesting life, (unlike me). Have a good one my man~!~
So happy to see you are still enjoying your days
My days have been filled with education Rita
She is the saint whose name I chose in confirmation
So now I am a confirmed student
and can't be on OS every day
I can though, spend some time visiting
and remember that winter break is only 2 weeks away.
Missed you and your lovely tales mixed with Dylan and Blake,
two of my favorite guys beside you.
rated with love
SCANNER: i wish i could write all the shit in my head.
i gonna carry a damn tape recorder maybe.
the trouble is: one with cassettes
or those teeny tiny tapes?

the latter is more handy, ha. in the hand.
the former is more practicable, cuz i got a sony walkman.
and many double a batteries.


anyway, thank u. my shit is not political enuf.
chomsky says so.
he just called me.
guy said:


It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state. Those who choose to disregard this responsibility can justly be accused of complicity in war crimes, which is itself designated as ‘a crime under international law’ in the principles of the Charter of Nuremberg.
Preface to Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam, 1971 [156]
You are a strange bird, rita.
Rita?
Hm.

Confirmation is a tough time for a gal. she gotta be ON HER GAME from then on.

I suppose some wimmin choose Chomsky over faith. Or poetry.

He sez:


ou can find things in the traditional religions which are very benign and decent and wonderful and so on, but I mean, the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. The God of the Bible - not only did He order His chosen people to carry out literal genocide - I mean, wipe out every Amalekite to the last man, woman, child, and, you know, donkey and so on, because hundreds of years ago they got in your way when you were trying to cross the desert - n
lissen , chomp, u say:
"Of course it's extremely easy to say, the heck with it.
I'm just going to adapt myself to the structures of power and authority
and do the best I can within them.
Sure, you can do that. But that's not acting like a decent person.
You can walk down the street and be hungry. You see a kid eating an ice cream cone and you notice there's no cop around and you can take the ice cream cone from him because you're bigger and walk away. You can do that. Probably there are people who do. We call them "pathological." On the other hand, if they do it within existing social structures we call them "normal." But it's just as pathological. It's just the pathology of the general society.

Ok so what is the cure, chomp?

It is NOT to occupy things. Occupying things gets u a record. When u come into prominence later thru yrs of hard study & desperate deadpan desperation, seeing the absurdity of the eggshell world we live in, u cannot become the first lady president cuz u on facebook dissin the structure, see?

Argh.

Chomsky.
JANE,

chomsky sez something different, but i shall defer to your
judgment re. georgie's choke chain. you are merciful
to animals. he is not. they got no grammar, so he
is not interested.

re. choking, i suspect georgie is putting sis on.

that is only my opinion.

still, a dog ought not to be choked.

re. chomsky, i am growing weary of him.


what, is he joking, here?

"Actually, on humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not, when he was supposedly asked

what he thought about western civilization. He is supposed to have said that he thought it would be a good idea. "
"always projected grace & simplicity unto. ".... I love this..
Great post..
A genuine Renaissance man in the cyberspace. How very nice. You have duly inspired me to read all I can by and about Blake. Sorry that my ISSUES stressed you out, buddy pal. I'd love to know how Geothe finally got into the sex thing.
Good for you on the lost love handles and the good cholesterol . I have 258 and the bad stuff more than the good one. Ah, a heart attack so what. I plan to read this one again. Thanks for the sense of grace and beauty that this post provided.
James, Is there a double entendre in the title? Could be ...
Of course you love the German writers. I thought you'd be in Herman Hesse. ... more than a Canadian rock band. Try Demian or Narcissus and Goldmund; classic artist vs. thinker type of stuff.

Hey, let me crow about my cholesterol. So low, my Doc had to read it twice from his paper. I'm below the existing charts for my rank and file. Ya think it's the red wine?

Hope the highlands vs. the lowlands is the best place for you. More free of sad-eyed ladies, I think.
BRIE, grace & simplicity aint for pussies, that is for sure.

FERSNY: no problem. Ya should read more. Blake & Goethe. Did not Goethe sayeth:
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
 Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar (6 March 1780)

Ha.

Sure he did.

Also he said

Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!
 Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.
…………………………….

Blake Is another matter. Total madman. Maybe bipolar.


Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
 Line 69
‘proverb of hell’
"Steppenwolf" was supposed to be there in my comment above....darn cut and paste thingy
SCARLETT:

Fella needs his sad eyed ladies. To make eyes sparkle. That is boy’s reward.

Who’s eyes? Both. Neither.

Ha.

Paradox is boring. That is why we have truth. Thank god in hell and goddess in heaven that
Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government



I think it is just fine.

Obama gets bob’s endorsement, which frees me up for brainwork.


Bob is a square. Non Chomsky type. He sez:

It's peculiar and unnerving in a way to see so many young people walking around with cellphones and iPods in their ears and so wrapped up in media and video games. It robs them of their self-identity. It's a shame to see them so tuned out to real life. Of course they are free to do that, as if that's got anything to do with freedom. The cost of liberty is high, and young people should understand that before they start spending their life with all those gadgets.
 Rolling Stone #1078 (14 May 2009), p. 45


mm. at least they live in the moment.

Future chomskyites, maybe, I hope.
in reading, dear Emmerling, i stopped reading at
guy in the woods

this guy figured in a vision this morning

coming during the thinking of the mind
alive and dead (thanks to the film X File)

we know the mind living,
but what of the mind dead?

the mind dead can not tell
the mind living about the mind dead

the mind dead is probably a glorious place

the mind dead is probably uninterested in the mind living

the mind dead has better songs than the mind living
Hey James, Bob himself said something similar to Chomsky about the 'youth of today' in his last interview with Rolling Stone magazine. And I'm inclined to agree. I have a 21 year old daughter. I sound like a broken-record Mama to her I'm sure. I say tune-out the extraneous and check in with yourself at least once a day, I'm mean really check in, without being wired to the electronic world. Sage advice all round.

I'm not sure if you'll find the whole interview on-line these days. Next time you go to the library look up RS's April 2009 issue; great article. But then again, I'm a die-hard ...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-new-issue-of-rolling-stone-bob-dylans-america-20090429
Dear Ume, doesn’t surprise me a bit, yer vision.
Better than mine this a.m. I was up a telephone pole, hanging on, whilst some damn fool was poking at a hole in the earth with a wooden stick to test some buried dynamite. I kept fearing it to explode . it didn’t.

Re yer theory re. the mind dead, I luckily have no intention of getting an Idea for awhile, but when it comes, my death, as I guess it must, tho not soon, ha, due to my super-body,

I shall make best efforts to communicate with the world, the temporal space or spatial time or whatever

We inhabit, and send a message, like jesus. Or bob Dylan. I was sorry to read of his demise in the papers, but he asked for it, growing that stupid mustache. He was told to keep cleanshaven by Jehovah, and yet he went and got ornery, thinkin hisself above God, especially Deuteronomy .

“no jew bard = hairy” it sez.
Look what happened to yer boy Ginsberg!
“family Business”
 You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.
 Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son

To his own dad!

Yikes.

I would write to George the german principal:


 “Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?
Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind;
Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm,
Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm.
 Who rides, so late, through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.
He holds the boy in the crook of his arm
He holds him safe, he keeps him warm.
 Der Erlkönig (1782)
 Goethe, dummy. Dumbkoff.
Dear Ume, doesn’t surprise me a bit, yer vision.
Better than mine this a.m. I was up a telephone pole, hanging on, whilst some damn fool was poking at a hole in the earth with a wooden stick to test some buried dynamite. I kept fearing it to explode . it didn’t.

Re yer theory re. the mind dead, I luckily have no intention of getting an Idea for awhile, but when it comes, my death, as I guess it must, tho not soon, ha, due to my super-body,

I shall make best efforts to communicate with the world, the temporal space or spatial time or whatever

We inhabit, and send a message, like jesus. Or bob Dylan. I was sorry to read of his demise in the papers, but he asked for it, growing that stupid mustache. He was told to keep cleanshaven by Jehovah, and yet he went and got ornery, thinkin hisself above God, especially Deuteronomy .

“no jew bard = hairy” it sez.
Look what happened to yer boy Ginsberg!
“family Business”
 You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.
 Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son

To his own dad!

Yikes.

I would write to George the german principal:


 “Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?
Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind;
Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm,
Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm.
 Who rides, so late, through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.
He holds the boy in the crook of his arm
He holds him safe, he keeps him warm.
 Der Erlkönig (1782)
 Goethe, dummy. Dumbkoff.
scarlett, shit i could quote that one by heart, no doubt.
just read a dylan rolling stone interview today
by some damn fancy novelist guy.

he said he saw ALL the dylans at once in the old boy's face.
said he heard all the voices in the voice.
said dylan was tryin to be a comedian.
tappin his foot, but not impatient.

said he aint gonna retire, said ha,
the trilogy of dylan renaissance begins with
love & theft not
time outta mind

said other shit too.

dylan, not me. i am mum these days re. the world situataion
to my interlocutors.
i say, aint my problem.
til i got money invested in how
it all comes out. ha.
wren; ha, me too. i like. also i am trying to dislike shit,
like chomskian pedagogy but am stymied cuz his hair
is so blinding. ask jane.
I envy your day....
~R~
(that's a crammed packed nutshell.)

noam foucault
good debate

interesting to see him
young

and treading
deep water

noam buckley!
a farse

buckley threatens to beat him up!!!
noam smiles

more degenerative grammar
ensues

noam can be nauseating
if overdosed

UG no UGGs
best broken into

portions.
Jeez James.
You're having a long day.
I don't know if you meant to, but you made me laugh over there at the quasi-important post that held the lead in the feed for most of the day.
The one about stretched out chicken patties. Don't worry if you don't get it. Do you even have one of those places nearby? Can't you just go along with the boycott on some sort of imaginary plane and leave it at that? It's probably better than actually eating the crap and then deciding that for political reasons you won't do that anymore.
Eschew sir. You're well practiced.

As far as the bards and German geniuses etc. go...I've read that stuff but it got away.However, the quotes and references are appreciated. Meet you back here in 15 years and see what you retain. I'm more amused and intrigued by your take on the ordinary events. Do you ever ride the bus?
MC; yeah well I don’t envy it. it was not fun. Except for the Chomsky research.

INVERTED: I read that he took on old piaget , too, the bastard.

Yr before old jean died. He was 80!
This man got no mercy.
Send him to france.


ALSO: I HAVE WHAT, missed something/? Something vulgar having to do with fowl, I suppose.
Chicken. Chicken hawks/ / ? naw , that was whats his name. matt paust.
Um, stretched out chickens is beyond me and I am a hip dude,
man, or at least I never admit it when I don’t get it. learned that one at age 40.

I retain alll..

And nothing.

I am a vessel of Nothing, and I serve the almighty void til I get filled up with content.

I eschew nothing, and since the hawk crows at midnight, I am early to the party.

Get it? nope. Ha.

What was the topic? Chomsky? Damn I wish he would shut the fuck up.
blue bus for me. i sit in the back with the other negroes.
dig foucault up & let mz camille paglia
plow her cart over his dried up bones. i say.
anyway, movie recommended;
"our idiot brother"
sort of a dostoyevskian riff.
guy is funny, the brother. but a simple village idiot.

i wish the idiots were kept in the library, where
dolts could visit them looking at van gogh paintings.

how do u explain idiocy, chomsky, damn yer teeth?
"A magnificent guy was helping out his friend over the phone. Gray ponytail, Harley Davidson t shirt, eyes of a Christ."

I can SEE him.

Glad your numbers are good.

Thanks, James.
firechick, my numbers are always good.
my numbers are 33 and 24 and some other ones too i cannot tell u
or else hermes trigonestomes and also ume
would slaughter me for my
sins against pythagoras.

poor ponytail kept gettin phone calls,phone calls.
he had a plastic bag he lovingly held, with snicksnacks in it.
he wuz chompin trail mix.
he got off where i did.
kept tryin to cut off contact. said a whopper about no
phone service on the bus. she wasnt fallin for it. no way.

he went home to misery and poverty and i hope a harley.
and some kickass drugs.anti histamine//?
The pythagoram theory is one of my favorites. As mathematical theories go.

I need to start reading Chomsky.

I wish everyone could go home to a Harley.
I lingered on this line: "...slower than a snail’s grandfather..." because it describes the total opposite of your mind!

Stay healthy, stay warm, keep reading, keep writing: my wishes for you!
JE:

Slow day at school for the first time in months. Very happy to read about your day, which believe it or not, is far more exciting than reading college entrance essays! That's my day.
"Nothing wrong with you."

"Unbelievable."

Good news - right? You sound surprised. But if you care to, you should find out the other numbers; they're more important than the total.

A day in your life is always a learning experience no matter what you do. Even the trip on the bus, one of the greatest places ever to learn about life and not have to worry about fender benders or road rage. Occasionally you'll even meet a philosopher. I haven't ridden a bus in a while; used to love em, Greyhound too. I should start up again.

Alas, I am too dull to throw in my two pfennigs re. Chomsky. I only think of him in terms of linguistics, which is where I first encountered him; in a linguistics class, and it was the most interesting thing I'd ever taken. I had no idea he was so political.

Ditto w/the germans.

I'd love to have seen Chomsky speak like Jane did but I'd have been equally happy seeing Cesar Millan with your sis and Georgie.

As for the library, I feel the same way you do. "...they are my books, I just let the library hold em for awhile."
FIRECHICK: Maybe Santa will bring u the ‘collected works of chomsky’ for xmas. If you have been a bad girl this year. I wouldn’t suggest reading him. Skim him. Read secondary sources. The Pythagorean theory is a damn fine theory, I agree. Pythagoras was also a mystic . he said, “We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
 ἀλλήλοις θ᾽ ὁμιλεῖν, ὡς τοὺς μὲν φίλους ἐχθροὺς μὴ ποιῆσαι, τοὺς δ᾽ ἐχθροὺς φίλους ἐργάσασθαι. ἴδιόν τε μηδὲν ἡγεῖσθαι.



MHOLD:Thank u for lingering around. I am already reading this morning! D h Lawrence has got me in a knot: “Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it
 Studies in Classic American Literature (1923)
James M. E. Mhold. She loves pedicures? no?
She's the kind Woman You need at Libraries.
She's not make males curse because of Bills.
She's not the type who runs up Tattoo Bill.
J.M.E. has One Interesting Life Every Day.
You may be able to give her one Pedicure.
I have No Idea why that came to my Mind.
I have never has a manicure or a Pedicure.
Art;
Pedicure for mhold! Small room in library, where literary ladies
Get beautiful. In the back. Next to the science fiction paperbacks.
Women in libraries are perhaps God’s greatest creation,
Next to renaissance paintings of women.
Please, no Picasso wimmin in the library!
Tattooing is the only way some shy women can get men not to look at them,
Says a tattooed woman I know. She is rather silly.
No tattooing in the library, nor dentistry.
Tarot readings, pedicures, and the occasional massage when
A person pays off their entire library fine.
No happy endings, tho, to library massage.
Also; huge d.h. Lawrence section.
With a large poster of him& his beard.
‘’ For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn and the dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. ‘’
‘apocalypse’ 1930
Art;
Pedicure for mhold! Small room in library, where literary ladies
Get beautiful. In the back. Next to the science fiction paperbacks.
Women in libraries are perhaps God’s greatest creation,
Next to renaissance paintings of women.
Please, no Picasso wimmin in the library!
Tattooing is the only way some shy women can get men not to look at them,
Says a tattooed woman I know. She is rather silly.
No tattooing in the library, nor dentistry.
Tarot readings, pedicures, and the occasional massage when
A person pays off their entire library fine.
No happy endings, tho, to library massage.
Also; huge d.h. Lawrence section.
With a large poster of him& his beard.
‘’ For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn and the dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. ‘’
‘apocalypse’ 1930
KATE: I remember college entrance exams. Write an essay, they say, on how come you are so damn sensitive & wonderful & unique, and remember to show humility to Educational process, which will grind u up into a fragmented specter of a specialist. Good luck. 500 words.

MARGARET: Let’s get ceser millan to whisper to some of these os dogs, especially the ones on the cover. They are sure cute & cuddly but I imagine they are difficult to housebreak. Chomsky is for egghead intellectuals like me & art james. He has wild ideas about politics but jane was not taken in, I don’t think.
A man who projects grace and simplicity onto strangers--I approve. I also tend to agree with Dylan. Chomsky's a chump. While I sympathize with many causes, I am loathe to be a crusader. It's everything I can do to take care of myself and my family.
Surface structure and deep structure--Chomsky would love this, James. Generative/transformational to the core and back again. Always a mystery, a challenge, a delight.
MIGUELA: Chomsky said “.capitalism is basically a system where everything is for sale, and the more money you have, the more you can get. And, in particular, that's true of freedom. Freedom is one of the commodities that is for sale, and if you are affluent, you can have a lot of it”

Chomsky is thinking of freedom in terms of FREEDOM FROM, which in my lexicon is LIBERTY, NOT FREEDOM. I think I am right on this.

“Sometimes you say things in songs
even if there's a small chance of them being true.
And sometimes you say things that have nothing to do with the truth of what you want to say
and sometimes you say things that everyone knows to be true.
Then again, at the same time, you're thinking that the only truth on earth is
that there is no truth on it.
Whatever you are saying, you're saying in a ricky-tick way.
There's never time to reflect. You stitched and pressed and packed and drove, is what you did.
 Chronicles: Vol. One (2004) Dylan.




JERRY: I have been experimenting with a new surface structure, but the problem is this: my deep structure is pretty transparent to me, and writers are NOT supposed to know what they are really trying to say, so I am therefore too deep a thinker to be a writer. So I shall be a philosopher, I think. I want to write some updated platonic dialogues. That is my goal for 2012. I think Chomsky will play the part of one of my socrates’s foils. Ha.
I don’t put any store what so ever in what gnome has to say. Anybody who is as smart as he is who denies the evidence of 9/11 has either not really looked at it or has some anterior motive , one premise makes him incompetent and the other a liar. I see they are still smarting from Dylan's rejection of them that’s because they know that it comes from and even higher source. Chomsky may not even warrant the first circle of hell let alone the seventh. Talk about intellectual du Jour.
Woops typo ulterior not anterior although anterior may also be accurate
Dear Emmerling'
Did not Goethe sayeth:
'nothing beats a lone nut'
or was it Art James that said that?

note: praise be to 'sesquipedalian efforts', esp.
putting words into crunchigious ecstasy.
I really gotta read me some Blake.
JACKY BOY; somehow I knew Chomsky was not to your taste. Just a gut feeling. You will like this quote:


 Even if [9/11 conspiracy theories] were true, which is extremely unlikely, who cares?
 It doesn't have any significance.
 It's a little bit like the huge energy that's put out on trying to figure out
 who killed John F. Kennedy. Who knows? And who cares?
 Plenty of people get killed all the time,
 why does it matter that one of them happened to be John F. Kennedy?

 If there was some reason to believe that there was a high level conspiracy,
 it might be interesting. But the evidence against that is just overwhelming.
 And after that, if it happened to be a jealous husband,
 or the mafia, or someone else, what difference does it make?
 It's just taking energy away from serious issues onto ones that don't matter.
 And I think the same is true here; it's my personal opinion.
 Q&A at the Kossuth Club, in Budapest, Hungary, May 16, 2004 [85]
Dearest Ume:
I know the quote. Indeed it was Wolfgang, not Sir Good Celery.
I profess a lack of the Father Tongue, but I put ‘’nut’’ into the Bing Translator & got a very odd result.
“Technik (Schrauben)Mutter” which, retranslated, means “Technology (screws) mother”.
I believe more every day that these Germans , my people sort of, are quite loony.
I have a book on Heine written by a Michael Hamburger, for chrissakes.
These long words , they are a specialty of the krauts. They string words together with no
Compunctionshame.


VICTORIA: Blake may make a lunatic out of u, just to warn ya.
The guy could be used as a rational for some of the things Vlad the Impaler did. The only serious issues are pseudo intellectuals like himself getting primetime while the real patriots and humanitarians like Richard Gage, Dr. Stephen Jones, Webster Tarpley, and Paul Craig Roberts are relegated to the internet. That’s the real political issue in America.
JACK,
These fellows ? Cannot say i have heard of them,
but i shall do some research.
Back in a bit.
I can save you the trouble James. Richard Gage is a practicing architect who has designed multiple fire proof buildings. After examining the evidence for 9/11 in mid decade, he was a flag waving republican and never even interested before that, he has embarked on a course of bringing it to the public regardless of risk to himself and professional career. He has over 1500 signatures of architects, engineers, and scientists from all over the world demanding a reopening of the NIST’s treasonous cover up that was farcically passed off as an investigation. Dr. Stephen Jones is a renowned scientist who did his own investigation on 9/11 and published his findings in a peer reviewed periodical, the findings proved the unmistakable signature of 1,3 Diphenlypropane (1,3 DPP) or nano thermite (a state of the art military cutting agent used in the sabotage of warships and steel structured buildings) in the residue of 9/11. At least what he could get his hands on of the wreckage that Marvin Bush did not immediately have shipped off on a slow boat to China.

Think about just how ludicrous gnomes statements are. If 9/11 was an inside job it would mean that not only is Dubya responsible for the deaths of over 400 emergency workers (and you can read that as saints if you are Catholic) but the whole war on terrorism and suspension of the constitution through the Patriot act is a fraud. You will never see either man on TV. The evidence they produce is overwhelming to anyone who has any kind of background in architecture, engineering, or science. As for Webster Tarpley and Paul Craig Roberts they are journalists. Tarpley being leftwing with uncanny accuracy and Roberts being Reagans ex press secretary and also the ex editor of the Wall Street Journal. Roberts is probably the most dangerous man in America right now and I do mean dangerous in the way life magazine once featured Jim Morrison on its cover, as the man most likely to start a revolution.
Very interesting, especially the part about Blake, and what Dylan said about getting involved in protests and causes. I see his point, and from there I guess each person has to decide what to do with that. I think it takes courage to consciously not get involved in ANY causes whatsoever, in most cases.
...chomp chomp...some good eatin' here. I gotta wonder, tho, does your mind ever rest? Maybe watching True Blood. I've caught only random snatches of it as I dashed thru the TV room where the women were staring at vampires and half vampires romancing and being frightened alternately. The women don't participate, tho. No gasping, that I hear, or shrieking or oooing or ahhhing. Maybe deep in thought?
JACK: OK, i am onto roberts, the most dangerous man in america.
gotta say, at first sight, his credentials are solid.

ALYSA; yeah, exactly, courage to f-ing BE, right? everywhere i go, people ask for something. cigarettes? sure. money? yeah ok 50 cents. talk to ya a bit, share my story? yep yep.
i get very bored very easily, though.
a cause would do me good.
but i got a mood disorder.
bipolar. this means when i get mad, i get all consuming mad.
if i hear about atrocities , and injustices, my tummy cramps up
and my brain goes on fire. i cannot do that! i cannot!
my health is more important.
i want calm. reflection.
maybe, if i am good,
someday i shall
actually have
fun.
Great story James. These are my favorites of yours.
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