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Had you not seen it [the world] all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
— Jul 09, 2014 11:52AM
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Is not blood the tempering agent in the mortar which bonds? The judge leaned closer. What do you think death is, man? Of whom do we speak when we speak of a man who was and is not? Are these blind riddles or are they not some part of every man’s jurisdiction? What is death if not an agency? And whom does he intend toward?
— Jul 14, 2014 10:38AM
Rasool
is on page 251 of 351
-But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
+I don’t see what that has to do with catchin birds.
-The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I’d have them all in zoos.
+That would be a hell of a zoo.
— Jul 13, 2014 10:31AM
+I don’t see what that has to do with catchin birds.
-The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I’d have them all in zoos.
+That would be a hell of a zoo.
Rasool
is on page 250 of 351
-These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men’s knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.
+What’s a suzerain?
-A keeper. A keeper or overlord.
— Jul 12, 2014 11:43AM
+What’s a suzerain?
-A keeper. A keeper or overlord.
