Photos of people
before murder. Stop. No. Don’t
go there. Run away.
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When the cap fits
I’ve always found it useful, in evaluating politicians, male and female, to see if I can picture them wearing a Nazi SS uniform.
Or an unhappy place
Is there a happy place between being too original and being not original enough?
Or the same you in a different setting
If you were born in a different time, a different place, would you be a different you?
Qualification
Has there ever been a great male artist, or great male writer, who wasn’t a great misogynist?
Within you, without you.
When I look back in history I distinguish between times when I was alive and times before I was born.There seems a difference in the quality of the world when you are in it.
Not Fascism. Not Communism.
The most effective system ever devised for controlling people for the purposes of the ruling class in a society is religion.
Destiny
A snake,
after spending all winter
in boring hibernation
welcomes the Sun
and warm ground of Winter
only to be smashed
on the road by a car.
But not for long
An eagle circling
on the morning air,
waiting to bring
to one rabbit
the ultimate
wake up call.
Eyes left
When we look at old family photographs of ourselves when young we focus on the obvious, the externals – our height, our hair styles, our clothing, our bicycle, our friends and family and pets. But these are just externals that tell us little of times past. Look at your eyes in the photos, look into them, what is that young man thinking and feeling at this moment and that? But sadly, perhaps, in spite of what is often said, eyes are a one way window – we can see out but not in, no matter how intently we try to penetrate that gaze.
Out of body experience
When you are young your mind and body are inseparable, the latter just a machine which, without having to think about it, carries out the mind’s wishes. The two are fused together, moving through life as a single unit, a horse and carriage. When we are old the mind and body separate from each other, we are aware of effort in asking the body to do our bidding. Things happen to the body that do not happen to the mind, which can only observe the effects from afar. The two no longer work together, the mind, still apparently young, seeks to do things the body can no longer do, like a driver trying to nurse a worn out car down a highway.
