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

bonebrushing the edges of the res interna (upper transcend)

productive procrastination in pugnacious prognosticators

R’n’t all itches to act twinned with equalanapposite counterclocksome itches that push the itch outside of temporal reality into contingent uncertain futures which may or may not come to pass, leaving in its setplace alternative excursions that point down side hallways, crack open doorblocks, and abandon us amidst the clutter of other rooms?

In my father’s house are many mansions, says he

of ten rods given, nine are loaned, and we bloody gutsack men are born in, live in, stay in mud with only scattered starthoughts of other higher beautiful

and procastination, to plan for crastine-day, is it not the beautiful and the hopeful — except not — just another dreamlie to sooth our sourows sores — I am tired today, I say right now, and my thoughts are stews of blackish bile — no sleep, but my lover comes to see me and tell me what my name is —

up, pug, teeth sharpened over two millenia of millenia of left-us women and leave-us love — see the young amoeba heartsad at its failed division — and now we divided make faulty glues of oxygen and hydrogen with schoolboy chemylabs, calf-legs and doe-eyes falling all over each other until banging against bonewalls, biographies shiver and refract, and tongues bruise each other making different shapes, and language drifts and towers to heaven are left undonelike due to miscommunications — in the middle of the word hides an unbreached wall —

share, make common, accept — no wonders that the tower fails. Babble, babble — ancient ziggur zag up to godplace — and it took us four bigears to put Ol’ Humps back together (even harder since we had no boxfront to look at, I will admit some puzzle pieces were forced) and fly up clinging to Sungod’s tearducts into inky darkness.

where does it go from here? chronos emasculated is a one way highway, the journals of journeys all end the same — and foreknowledge of foregones are like pyschic eggshell swaddlingblankets that scare and sooth us into fitful sleep

art, deprecated verb form of the predicate, dropped all together in general semantics which pseudoknowers say make brains run quicker. wind the clocks and drop the predicates, being is a foregone, and unknowable, and the map is not the territory and never nevereverwillbe and dreams and deeds live in separate houses and this brainmush harmonium laying sentences upon the waters like the voidbreaths of allgod create a world but not this one.

Go. Get on with it, you lazy fool, nullity of the major arcana. Take my card and divide by it and watch the universe reveal itself.

etymology of change

change = that which separates physics from metaphysics.

“Natural things are some or all of them subject to change” – Aristotle’s Physics  (I.2, 185a12-13).

From Old French, changier, from Late Latin, Cambiare, from Latin cambire, to exchange or barter or trade — from Proto Indo European kamb, to bend or crook —

change is genesis, genesis impossible, since what is cannot come to be since it already is, and what is not cannot become what is says Parmenides. But Aristotle changes and says not — from where does he say it — who is thinker and who is the thought? —

Change = subject, form, and lack. Subject gains the form and loses the lack. Subject gains the lack and loses the form.


but look, there is substantial failures of Ari Tottle’s Meteph Isiks, since there is no such thing as categories or forms — not in a real sense, not in an actual sense, these are illusory constructs, virtual, effects of lower-level processing — the world is information, atoms carrying information, and information is a message and messages change, that is their purpose, and What looks like A Static Universe is actually a Dynamic Universe, the stillness of the rock obscures the vibrations of tetrillion little strings, playing in higher harmonies perceivable only by a Constructive God —

Change is the rule, and Stasis, Being, Form, merely Contingent Illusions soon to pass away.

See Annotations, Dec 28, 2009,
https://practicalspactical.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/annotations-of-etymology-of-change/

and for a laugh – and then a wail – into the neverending nightmare of history

List of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_deemed_inappropriate_by_Clear_Channel_following_the_September_11%2C_2001_attacks

I especially like Rage Against the Machine … All songs. Classic.

And thene there’s 99 Red Balloons.

You and I in a little toy shop / Buy a bag of balloons With the money we’ve got
Set them free at the break of dawn / ‘Til one by one, they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software / Flash the message “Something’s out there”
Floating in the summer sky / 99 red balloons go by

99 red balloons / Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it’s red alert / There’s something here From somewhere else
The war machine springs to life / Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky / Where 99 red balloons go by

99 Decision Street / 99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry / Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we’ve waited for / This is it boys, this is war
The president is on the line / As 99 red balloons go by

[Instrumental Interlude]

99 Knights of the airway / Ride super-high-tech jet fighters
Everyone’s a Silverhero / Everyone’s a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify / To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky / As 99 red balloons go by

As 99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have had /In every one a red balloon
It’s all over and I’m standin’ pretty / In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenier / Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon / I think of you and let it go

wille zum leben / machtgelust

what is the what and who is asking and why does one care to know? whose being is the being? twinkle in daddy’s eye, aye, ‘I’ was willed and now I will and on and down and back and up through jiggly chains of willing and wonting and rocking and rolling serving the primordial itch lolling in prioracle ooze – love is a nonapeptide with a sulphur bridge, the journeyman courier of ancient prioric priapic desire — is it pain that spurs us on or loves promise that leads us — pain I should think and a promise of an end to pain, of safe harbors in arms like mom’s, of warm bodies in cold darkness, of meaning out of chaos, light from night.

why does it will and how does it will and who does the willing and the wailing and the whiling and for what? the question is unanswered and as soon as man spoke he lied and after the lie he blamed it on a woman — typical we say as if the action follows inevitabilty from the type — and its unclear why that Old Wise-Lover Playdoh Graycoh seemed to think that the shapes preceded the clay, seems like wearing your shoes on your hands to this little cavedweller, or why Mr. Ari T. Tottle the Aristocrat thought the clay hid some transcendant clayness, or why such silly linedrawing could be adopted by that Fat Saint, Twinsies Horsies to explain how god got in my cracker — higher forms are higher forms and Neetches got it right, that all that stuff is tripe and gristle laid out like a garnish, a function of plating to make the peas more palatable — hiding behind the Oracleman to fool us into thinking that the world is Lit and not Dark, but bring the Chaos, says Neetch, the World is Dark, and the will is a small thing to stand against darkness, and little campfires singing to the the night only betray your presence to the hunters who hide there.

but doesn’t stop the WZL or the Machtlust, because the Machtlust, even if a lie, is a useful lies and useful lies are remembered in the place of not-so-useful truths. Evillution baby, the christolers are right to dislike, its cold and amoral and has nothing to do with their Hanging Apollo.

Maybe baby, maybe, but we’re all just children of the universe, every little willed and willing, and Hanging Apollo and Crazy Dionysus are children of the universe too, and you can’t fear the darkness because that’s where the Touch is, that’s where the Other Sits, and it’s Other-Touch that gets, that sends chills down spines and children down tunnels and its where the magic happens — the lie itself a bit of magic, in that it sketches the edges of ontology and shows you where I end and Yous begin — and that there is the sacred — Unity of God, but Divisibility Therefrom, the Universe revolves around the Eternal Dialogue not the One-Toned Monologue, and in the Dialogue, God hides, and in the Dialogue, Telos emerges, from foreheads and mortal souls like Pallas laughing at her self in the mirror.

Will to live; will to power; will to know;

Will to touch the other, see the other, to tremble and being looked at; not to see but to be seen; eyes of some great presence, some soul equal to yours or better, glancing and knowing; knowing the gods of your fathers and the gods of your mothers and gods of your brothers and sisters and lovers; walking in the world together, talking.

such is love.

waiting for the next thing

beat, drop, beat, drop, waiting for the next thing, always waiting for the next thing, beat, stop, time stops, jerks, wait, in, out, dancing like Saint Vitus, sanctus, hoary heads with grinning jawbones — two jews walk, across broken fallen marble — foxes dart in and out and over ruins — time both stopped and incessantly continuing — “grass will grow in your jawbone,” says one — the other is silent, thinking of purposes and endings —

has the universe broken itself? did we break it, with our rapid-fire h-bombs, and the numbing whine of TV static barely heard? “sky is the color of television, tuned to a dead station” says one, and the world twists again, time moving, not moving, and here we sit bloodshot eyes into liquid crystal displays of varying resolutions, psychic tentacles reaching out to each other looking for new wombs and new navels — “they are all alike,” spake mulligan, “but this one is the omphalos” — written seventy years ago about ninety years ago — they were already modern then.

No. I say it (who is I? I am I? Dr. Seussical’s musical meters, last poetry we ever read) I say it and I say that here is not there and then is not now, I know that then is not know, I’ve smelled the rosewood rising from that heavy burden, last final duty to a stranger, other-father, delivering a package to the dancehall — it was snowy, it was snowy, I had shaved my beard, and the coffin was heavier than anything and at the same time not heavy enough, there was no smell of rosewood, there was no smell of anything, there was only the weight, and time is not broken, it is we who are broken, cut off from each other, locking in the dying in white rooms, in through a hospital and out through a hospital, and there’s men pulling levers standing behind curtains, and we look, and we think we understand: “Ah, yes, there was no great and powerful,” “there are no mysteries” and yet the road beneath us is yellow, and we’re wearing redshoes but we can’t do it, we’re not Dorothy, there’s no going back or home, there’s only going forward –

Compared to that, compared to graveyards and snowbanks, and absences that last forever — to say that time has stopped — to wondere where the next thing is — silliness silliness tragical silliness — sometimes I am comforted and sometimes I am not and sometimes I am comforted and sometimes I am not and sometimes I am comforted and sometimes I am not and I’ve never been to California but I think I might great problem of the future contingents who sees does it exist not yet not yet not yet not yet

Tired old man we elected king

Who is John McCain? Can a pugnacious penguin, a tortured bravo, really rule this increasingly complex behemosity known as Amerika? Merrik, you Young Empire, do you want an Old Man to lead you, the Fortunate Son of admirals, the hero locked in bamboo cages? Shall we let the Son of the Jungle loose on the Men of the Deserts? What does he know of warfare and empire? How can he mistake Shia from Sunni? How can he minimize the true complexity of these issues?

 ZR says bomb Iran, and misses the complexity of the issue. He does not see the other side. He does not sit in their shoes. To defeat your enemy, you must become your enemy, and the greatest defeat is to make him your friend — shall Persia stand up to the Colossus? We tremble at their shoutings, but oh how they must tremble at ours — we have them encircled — increasingly incircled — and we wonder that they are jumpy?

And what of My People, the Children of Abraham, People of the Sword, nervous in Masada?

I love them, my love for them is eternal, my heart rests in Jerusalem, but, but, but — we must follow Jacob and dwell in the house of Laban, not Esau who dies by the sword.

And so then, the King I Choose, the Secret Wanderer who has been chosen by Destiny, the Contingent One, Who Exists Because America Exists. He is our Favorite Son, the Voice of the New Tomorrow, the Bringer of Hope.

 Tomorrow comes, and with it death and dust and destruction but also life, and love, and beauty. We must turn towards the beauty and away from the dust — we must sit in the tents of our fathers, and let them wash the dust from our feet – and we must make merry, and eat good food, and rejoice — and we must love each other, and see beyond the bone-fences that hem us in and see and take our place among the starborn beings who, through the shocking surprise of their contingency, delight the silent watchers who sit beyond. That these things matter to us, and will one day matter to others. That the sun shines on us, and will one day shine on others.

The universe is cold, but there is warmth in it, and in that warmth, the warmth of future days, the promise of the continuation, we must take comfort.

keep fighting the good fight, America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlNm7kA9ojc

 America at its best. Karl Rove, you are a war criminal, and you and the administration you represented are a discredit to our country.

though war-criminal might be a bit strong. war tortfeasor? secretary of lies and political warfare? architect of the one-party system?

notes from news years

new years with the disco biscuits, my eyes starry, by myself at the front of the stage, things getting strange and heavy, but the sound sounded great, like I was in an echo chamber, or they were using some incredible three dimensional reverb — I was right in front of the stage — and I looked over and saw a kid, man, what’s the difference these days, a man dressed like a kid, going through people’s coats — in my reverie darkness, and assuming the worst, I wrote a story for him, of the man-child who goes to these shows and steals a wallets in order to eat — realizing that this was this creature’s role and purpose, this was what it did to eat — and what was my purpose — but I had no purpose, I was a watcher, this was my Carnival, my Festival, my License, but some people were working — for sure, for sure —

 on the other side of the barrier, a black man-child sits tripping hard, staring at glowsticks in his hands that he was making dance the danse macabre — was that this man-child’s purpose? Had someone fed him something to reduce him to this state, animal, his mind caged by bone and blotters, sitting there, forebrain gone?

 Or the fire jugglers after the show — this was their new years too, and they were working, throwing fire in the air to delight the crowds —

 The music was good — so good — insane — but distracted by the music, and then seeing through the music, the world in its dark strivings crystallized and betrayed a terrible terrible prison where rats in a wheel run endless circles, conditioned to press a button for daily bread and daily shocks, and the music distracts us from the work, the bone-crunching soul-crushing, the raking of shit, the farming of greener soylent, the grinding of bonemash —

Time. Time & Change. Frightening words. Love. Love too.

well …

now that that’s over with, I can clear my throat and wipe my eyes, maybe take a shower and scrub the dead leaves off of me. Hope springs eternal, with yellow feathers and bird-songs, and while every day I’m one day older, I don’t really mind, since every day I climb a little bit higher up that spiritual Kilimanjaro and look back down on the primordial landscape from whence I came. It is easy to be joyful in spring, and the trick to getting through winter is to remember that spring is coming. Spring is coming. Spring is coming. And then it’s here.

dreams of elsewhere

sometimes I dream of Elsewhere, and the dreams are always strange, like dreams are, but doubly strange because of the utter strangeness of the place – the rooms and layouts of rooms change and shift — last night I climbed stairs and the building was on the wrong side of the street, and the stairs led to an upstairs apartment which sort of exists but does not exist —

when I wake from such dreams, I wake smiling, happy for the visit, and the beautiful strangeness of memory.

seems like dreams, dreams must have been the beginning of magic and gods and all of that back in the ancient past of our race, when everything was new and yet to be learned. Sometimes, in the gray shady area suspended between waking and dreaming, I am back there, to my own ancient past, when I was young and learning things for the first time. It is a strangely alienating experience, and it makes me think back to F.N.’s Birth of Tragedy, and the suspicion that all our knowledge and turning towards the world becomes, like the yellow pages of an old book left to the elements,  an ossified apollonian construct of foreknowledge and anticipation that blocks our view of the absolute dionysian reality underneath.

In the place between dreaming, the pages of my life fall away, and my soul is fresh and naked and exposed, and I feel the world pressing up against my self, and I experience it again, as if for the first time.