The influence of gaslight or electric light on the growth of paraheliotropic trees

1.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells..

2.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours

3.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,–
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

The Pre-Thought Universe consists of the Concrete + the Relational Patterns defined and determined by the Concrete.

ACTORS are able to use actions (concretes determined by certain relational patterns) to rearrange the Concrete to reflect new Relational Patterns. However, all Actors and actions are themselves determined by other Concretes and Relational Patterns.

THINKERS (specific instantiations of the Concrete in and determined by specific Relational Patterns) are capable of creating new hypothetical free-standing Relational Patterns that do not refer to Concretes (Material Objects) but rather to Abstracts (Thought Objects).

Thinkers are also able to deduce and describe the Relational Patterns that do refer to and are determined by the arrangement of the Concrete in the universe.

THINKER-ACTORS can rearrange the Concrete to reflect or approximate one of these Hypothetical Relational Patterns that the thinker-actor created through the creation and arrangement  of Abstracts.

Eternal name of all that are

The Agon of History must always be the Story of the Son trying to kill and eliminate the father, tragically, sadly, but inevitably — as the election of BHO erases and eliminates a certain American prehistory, and as others who take his place as I grow older and watch necessarily do the same to him —

Dying painfully of cancer, looking horrible, like an animal, with the fear pregnant in the eyes.

Ayschronous. The Empire Never Ended. Men in suits and tuxes but engaging in the Old Roman Empire Amorality. Looking at horrible things on stages. Total slavery. Total domination. A world ordered only by power and violence and what can happen. All good things gone. The gnawing of bones.

A story starts with a man looking in the mirror. Maybe he sees truly. Maybe he does not. Later, at the end, he looks again, and through the scars, through the wrinkles, through the strange new sad look that haunts the corner of his eyes, he looks again — and wondrously, miraculously, amazingly, it’s still him. Been there all along. And the story is like all stories about only one thing — what its like to be alive.

The strange double vision that sees a spoon and sees the word spoon, the letters s,p,o,o,n, overlaid on it — and then the sad single vision that doesn’t even see the shape or the color or the light reflecting of its curves but only sees the letters — call that Apollo —

Task of Dionysus — recurring though not constant — is to see past the letters, see past the artifacts, the strange ideas, right or wrong but always something added — and see what is there — see in the way our eyes are meant to see — see with the eye, not the mind — live in the light not in the dark — music can do it — raw — fresh — unencumbered —