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  1. Joseph Littleshoes said:

    ----------------------
    Liber XV sec. VII.
    ----------------------

    The Anthem
    --------------

    Thou who art I, beyond all I am,
    Who hast no nature, and no name
    Who art, when all but Thou are gone,
    Thou , centre and secret of the Sun,
    Thou, hidden spring of all things known
    And unknown, Thou aloof, alone,
    Thou, the true fire within the reed
    Brooding and breeding, source and seed
    Of life, love liberty and light,
    Thou beyond speech and beyond sight
    Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire
    Kindling as mine intents aspire.
    Thee I invoke abiding one.
    Thee, centre and secret of the Sun,
    And that most holy mystery
    Of which the vehicle am I!
    Appear, most awful and most mild,
    As it is lawful, in they child!

    For the father and the Son
    The Holy Spirit is the norm;
    Male - female, quintessential, one
    Man - being veiled in Woman - form
    Glory and worship in the Highest
    Thou Dove, mankind that deifiest,
    Being the race, most royally run,
    To spring sunshine through winter storm!
    Glory and worship be to Thee
    Sap of the world - ash, wonder - tree!

    Glory to Thee from Gilded Tomb!

    Glory to Thee from Waiting Womb!

    Glory to Thee from earth unploughed!

    Glory to Thee from Virgin vowed!

    Glory to Thee, true Unity
    Of the Eternal Trinity!

    Glory to Thee, thou sire and dam
    And Self of I am that I am!

    Glory to thee, beyond all term,
    Thy spring of sperm, thy seed and germ!

    Glory to thee, eternal Sun
    Thou One in Three, Thou Three in One!

    Glory and worship unto Thee
    Sap of the world - ash, wonder tree!

    -------------------------------------------

    Aleister Crowley
    Gnostic Mass.
    The Office of the Anthem.
    Liber ABA.

  2. Joseph Littleshoes got drunk and posted:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    ----------------------
    Liber XV sec. VII.
    ----------------------

    The Anthem
    --------------


    <snip>

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Aleister Crowley
    Gnostic Mass.
    The Office of the Anthem.
    Liber ABA.

    I've always liked this better:

    The Hollow Men

    I

    We are the hollow men
    We are the stuffed men
    Leaning together
    Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
    Our dried voices, when
    We whisper together
    Are quiet and meaningless
    As wind in dry grass
    Or rats' feet over broken glass
    In our dry cellar

    Shape without form, shade without colour,
    Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

    Those who have crossed
    With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
    Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
    Violent souls, but only
    As the hollow men
    The stuffed men.

    II

    Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
    In death's dream kingdom
    These do not appear:
    There, the eyes are
    Sunlight on a broken column
    There, is a tree swinging
    And voices are
    In the wind's singing
    More distant and more solemn
    Than a fading star.

    Let me be no nearer
    In death's dream kingdom
    Let me also wear
    Such deliberate disguises
    Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
    In a field
    Behaving as the wind behaves
    No nearer --

    Not that final meeting
    In the twilight kingdom

    III

    This is the dead land
    This is cactus land
    Here the stone images
    Are raised, here they receive
    The supplication of a dead man's hand
    Under the twinkle of a fading star.

    Is it like this
    In death's other kingdom
    Waking alone
    At the hour when we are
    Trembling with tenderness
    Lips that would kiss
    Form prayers to broken stone.

    IV

    The eyes are not here
    There are no eyes here
    In this valley of dying stars
    In this hollow valley
    This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

    In this last of meeting places
    We grope together
    And avoid speech
    Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

    Sightless, unless
    The eyes reappear
    As the perpetual star
    Multifoliate rose
    Of death's twilight kingdom
    The hope only
    Of empty men.

    V

    Here we go round the prickly pear
    Prickly pear prickly pear
    Here we go round the prickly pear
    At five o'clock in the morning.

    Between the idea
    And the reality
    Between the motion
    And the act
    Falls the Shadow

    For Thine is the Kingdom

    Between the conception
    And the creation
    Between the emotion
    And the response
    Falls the Shadow

    Life is very long

    Between the desire
    And the spasm
    Between the potency
    And the existence
    Between the essence
    And the descent
    Falls the Shadow
    For Thine is the Kingdom

    For Thine is
    Life is
    For Thine is the

    This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.

    ---T. S. Eliot (1925)

  3. Bob Terwilliger said:

    Joseph Littleshoes got drunk and posted:

    One Star In Sight--------------------

    Thy feet in mire thy head in murk, oh man how piteous thy plight, the
    doubts that daunt the ills that irk, thou hast not wit nor will to
    fight.

    How hope in heart or worth in work. No Star in sight.

    Thy "Gods" prooved puppets of the priests.

    "TRUTH" all's relation science sighed! In bondage with thy brother
    beast love tortured thee as loves hope died and loves faith rotted, life
    no lest dim star descried

    Thy cringing carrion cowered and crawled to find a chance cast clod
    whose pain was purposeless, appalled it trod its vain agony across the
    void sky.

    All souls eternally exist. Each individual, ultimate, each makes itself
    a mist of mind and flesh to celebrate some tender tryst.

    Some drunkards doting on the dream despair that it should die, mistake
    themselves for their own shadow scheme, one star can summon them to
    wake!

    Star soles serene that gleam on life's calm lake

    🙂

    ---
    JL

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    ----------------------
    Liber XV sec. VII.
    ----------------------

    The Anthem
    --------------


    <snip>

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Aleister Crowley
    Gnostic Mass.
    The Office of the Anthem.
    Liber ABA.

    I've always liked this better:

    The Hollow Men

    I

    We are the hollow men
    We are the stuffed men
    Leaning together
    Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
    Our dried voices, when
    We whisper together
    Are quiet and meaningless
    As wind in dry grass
    Or rats' feet over broken glass
    In our dry cellar

    Shape without form, shade without colour,
    Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

    Those who have crossed
    With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
    Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
    Violent souls, but only
    As the hollow men
    The stuffed men.

    II

    Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
    In death's dream kingdom
    These do not appear:
    There, the eyes are
    Sunlight on a broken column
    There, is a tree swinging
    And voices are
    In the wind's singing
    More distant and more solemn
    Than a fading star.

    Let me be no nearer
    In death's dream kingdom
    Let me also wear
    Such deliberate disguises
    Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
    In a field
    Behaving as the wind behaves
    No nearer --

    Not that final meeting
    In the twilight kingdom

    III

    This is the dead land
    This is cactus land
    Here the stone images
    Are raised, here they receive
    The supplication of a dead man's hand
    Under the twinkle of a fading star.

    Is it like this
    In death's other kingdom
    Waking alone
    At the hour when we are
    Trembling with tenderness
    Lips that would kiss
    Form prayers to broken stone.

    IV

    The eyes are not here
    There are no eyes here
    In this valley of dying stars
    In this hollow valley
    This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

    In this last of meeting places
    We grope together
    And avoid speech
    Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

    Sightless, unless
    The eyes reappear
    As the perpetual star
    Multifoliate rose
    Of death's twilight kingdom
    The hope only
    Of empty men.

    V

    Here we go round the prickly pear
    Prickly pear prickly pear
    Here we go round the prickly pear
    At five o'clock in the morning.

    Between the idea
    And the reality
    Between the motion
    And the act
    Falls the Shadow

    For Thine is the Kingdom

    Between the conception
    And the creation
    Between the emotion
    And the response
    Falls the Shadow

    Life is very long

    Between the desire
    And the spasm
    Between the potency
    And the existence
    Between the essence
    And the descent
    Falls the Shadow
    For Thine is the Kingdom

    For Thine is
    Life is
    For Thine is the

    This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.

    ---T. S. Eliot (1925)

  4. Bob Terwilliger said:

    Bob Terwilliger was obviously drunk when he posted:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    ----------------------
    Liber XV sec. VII.
    ----------------------

    The Anthem
    --------------


    <snip>

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Aleister Crowley
    Gnostic Mass.
    The Office of the Anthem.
    Liber ABA.

    I've always liked this better:

    Would you care to compare and discuss it? Stanza for stanza?

    You have made an obvious statement i have just not made up my mind yet
    precisely what it is.

    As an invitation to discuss the relative merits of the poetry quoted i
    could get a bit enthusiastic about but other wise, no. I mangled the
    "One Star In Sight" sadly i could not find my text.

    And i have not yet even posted the Hymn to Pan
    ---
    J (IO PAN IO PAN) L

    Quoted message said:

    The Hollow Men

    I

    We are the hollow men
    We are the stuffed men
    Leaning together
    Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
    Our dried voices, when
    We whisper together
    Are quiet and meaningless
    As wind in dry grass
    Or rats' feet over broken glass
    In our dry cellar

    Shape without form, shade without colour,
    Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

    Those who have crossed
    With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
    Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
    Violent souls, but only
    As the hollow men
    The stuffed men.

    II

    Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
    In death's dream kingdom
    These do not appear:
    There, the eyes are
    Sunlight on a broken column
    There, is a tree swinging
    And voices are
    In the wind's singing
    More distant and more solemn
    Than a fading star.

    Let me be no nearer
    In death's dream kingdom
    Let me also wear
    Such deliberate disguises
    Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
    In a field
    Behaving as the wind behaves
    No nearer --

    Not that final meeting
    In the twilight kingdom

    III

    This is the dead land
    This is cactus land
    Here the stone images
    Are raised, here they receive
    The supplication of a dead man's hand
    Under the twinkle of a fading star.

    Is it like this
    In death's other kingdom
    Waking alone
    At the hour when we are
    Trembling with tenderness
    Lips that would kiss
    Form prayers to broken stone.

    IV

    The eyes are not here
    There are no eyes here
    In this valley of dying stars
    In this hollow valley
    This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

    In this last of meeting places
    We grope together
    And avoid speech
    Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

    Sightless, unless
    The eyes reappear
    As the perpetual star
    Multifoliate rose
    Of death's twilight kingdom
    The hope only
    Of empty men.

    V

    Here we go round the prickly pear
    Prickly pear prickly pear
    Here we go round the prickly pear
    At five o'clock in the morning.

    Between the idea
    And the reality
    Between the motion
    And the act
    Falls the Shadow

    For Thine is the Kingdom

    Between the conception
    And the creation
    Between the emotion
    And the response
    Falls the Shadow

    Life is very long

    Between the desire
    And the spasm
    Between the potency
    And the existence
    Between the essence
    And the descent
    Falls the Shadow
    For Thine is the Kingdom

    For Thine is
    Life is
    For Thine is the

    This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.

    ---T. S. Eliot (1925)

  5. Joseph waxed evermore:

    Quoted message said:

    One Star In Sight--------------------

    Thy feet in mire thy head in murk, oh man how piteous thy plight, the
    doubts that daunt the ills that irk, thou hast not wit nor will to
    fight.

    How hope in heart or worth in work. No Star in sight.

    Thy "Gods" prooved puppets of the priests.

    "TRUTH" all's relation science sighed! In bondage with thy brother
    beast love tortured thee as loves hope died and loves faith rotted, life
    no lest dim star descried

    Thy cringing carrion cowered and crawled to find a chance cast clod
    whose pain was purposeless, appalled it trod its vain agony across the
    void sky.

    All souls eternally exist. Each individual, ultimate, each makes itself
    a mist of mind and flesh to celebrate some tender tryst.

    Some drunkards doting on the dream despair that it should die, mistake
    themselves for their own shadow scheme, one star can summon them to
    wake!

    Star soles serene that gleam on life's calm lake

    🙂

    ObFood: What sauce best accompanies crab-dill ravioli? Beurre blanc? Velouté
    sauce? Marguery sauce?

    I

    Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light,
    Of light and love the tempers of the heart,
    Whack their boys' limbs,
    And, winding-footed in their shawl and sheet,
    Groom the dark brides, the widows of the night
    Fold in their arms.

    The shades of girls, all flavoured from their shrouds,
    When sunlight goes are sundered from the worm,
    The bones of men, the broken in their beds,
    By midnight pulleys that unhouse the tomb.

    II

    In this our age the gunman and his moll
    Two one-dimensional ghosts, love on a reel,
    Strange to our solid eye,
    And speak their midnight nothings as they swell;
    When cameras shut they hurry to their hole
    down in the yard of day.

    They dance between their arclamps and our skull,
    Impose their shots, showing the nights away;
    We watch the show of shadows kiss or kill
    Flavoured of celluloid give love the lie.

    III

    Which is the world? Of our two sleepings, which
    Shall fall awake when cures and their itch
    Raise up this red-eyed earth?
    Pack off the shapes of daylight and their starch,
    The sunny gentlemen, the Welshing rich,
    Or drive the night-geared forth.

    The photograph is married to the eye,
    Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth;
    The dream has sucked the sleeper of his faith
    That shrouded men might marrow as they fly.

    IV

    This is the world; the lying likeness of
    Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move
    Loving and being loth;
    The dream that kicks the buried from their sack
    And lets their trash be honoured as the quick.
    This is the world. Have faith.

    For we shall be a shouter like the [censored],
    Blowing the old dead back; our shots shall smack
    The image from the plates;
    And we shall be fit fellows for a life,
    And who remains shall flower as they love,
    Praise to our faring hearts.

    ---Dylan Thomas - Our Eunuch Dreams

  6. In article <[email hidden]>,
    "Bob Terwilliger" <virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz> wrote:
    (snip)

    Quoted message said:


    ObFood: Pan Bagnat


    (snip)

    Quoted message said:

    Bob

    First time (and only, I think) I had pan bagnat in Phoenix about 25
    years ago, I loved it. Never made it.

    Indian Summer

    In youth it was the way I had
    To do my best to please
    To change with every passing lad
    To suit his theories

    But now I know the things I do
    And do the things I do
    And if you do not like me so
    To hell, my love, with you.

    -Dorothy Parker
    --
    http://www.jamlady.eboard.com

  7. Barb said:

    First time (and only, I think) I had pan bagnat in Phoenix about 25
    years ago, I loved it. Never made it.

    It's my idea of perfect picnic food; it actually gets BETTER when it sits
    for a while.

    Quoted message said:

    Indian Summer

    In youth it was the way I had
    To do my best to please
    To change with every passing lad
    To suit his theories

    But now I know the things I do
    And do the things I do
    And if you do not like me so
    To hell, my love, with you.

    -Dorothy Parker

    I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
    than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
    ---e. e. cummings

    Bob

  8. "Bob Terwilliger" <virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Barb said:

    First time (and only, I think) I had pan bagnat in Phoenix about 25
    years ago, I loved it. Never made it.

    It's my idea of perfect picnic food; it actually gets BETTER when it sits
    for a while.

    Quoted message said:

    Indian Summer

    In youth it was the way I had
    To do my best to please
    To change with every passing lad
    To suit his theories

    But now I know the things I do
    And do the things I do
    And if you do not like me so
    To hell, my love, with you.

    -Dorothy Parker

    I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
    than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
    ---e. e. cummings

    Bob


    I thought this was

    Quoted message said:

    I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
    than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
    ---fossi....

  9. Barb contributed this gem to the current poetry thread:

    Quoted message said:

    Indian Summer

    In youth it was the way I had
    To do my best to please
    To change with every passing lad
    To suit his theories

    But now I know the things I do
    And do the things I do
    And if you do not like me so
    To hell, my love, with you.

    -Dorothy Parker

    Barb wins!

    Felice

  10. "Felice Friese" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    Barb contributed this gem to the current poetry thread:

    Quoted message said:

    Indian Summer

    In youth it was the way I had
    To do my best to please
    To change with every passing lad
    To suit his theories

    But now I know the things I do
    And do the things I do
    And if you do not like me so
    To hell, my love, with you.

    -Dorothy Parker



    I sent this poem to DH this a.m. and watched him LOL when he read it. He
    knows first-hand of what she speaks.
    Thanks again for this poem. It lightened the load.
    Dee Dee

  11. Bob Terwilliger said:
    Quoted message said:


    Star soles serene that gleam on life's calm lake

    🙂

    ObFood: What sauce best accompanies crab-dill ravioli? Beurre blanc?
    Velouté
    sauce? Marguery sauce?

    I often make a stuffed pasta with a ground seafood filling. Most often i
    will do stuffed shells rather than go to the trouble of making &
    assembling my own ravioli but i like a thin subtle sauce with them
    rather than a thick highly flavoured sauce.

    Browned butter with a bit of garlic and herbs, a white wine, butter and
    garlic reduction sauce, a "Gloucester" sauce is just a bit of mayonnaise
    thinned with sour cream and lemon and a touch of fennel, a nice herbal
    vinaigrette, if using fresh crab the shells and any discard as well as
    any juices one can make a basic crab stock and use it with some milk or
    cream to make a simple white sauce with, adding mushrooms, shallots,
    garlic etc. as desired.

    Something i have not yet tried is a sauce vert or green sauce made by
    taking various green leafy herbs and vegetables and blanching, and
    squeezing in cheese cloth, very firmly till one obtains about 1/2 cup of
    thick herb juice of spinach leaves, watercress, parsley, tarragon,
    chervil etc., then add this juice to a very thick mayonnaise.

    But with a dill crab pasta i think garlic butter & lemon juice would be
    perfect. Even a beurre de moutarde or a mushroom sauce might be nice.

    If one really wanted a tomato sauce to serve with the crab pasta one
    might consider any of the white wine tomatoe sauces such as sauce
    bretonne or chasseur.
    ---
    JL

    Quoted message said:

    I

    Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light,
    Of light and love the tempers of the heart,
    Whack their boys' limbs,
    And, winding-footed in their shawl and sheet,
    Groom the dark brides, the widows of the night
    Fold in their arms.

    The shades of girls, all flavoured from their shrouds,
    When sunlight goes are sundered from the worm,
    The bones of men, the broken in their beds,
    By midnight pulleys that unhouse the tomb.

    II

    In this our age the gunman and his moll
    Two one-dimensional ghosts, love on a reel,
    Strange to our solid eye,
    And speak their midnight nothings as they swell;
    When cameras shut they hurry to their hole
    down in the yard of day.

    They dance between their arclamps and our skull,
    Impose their shots, showing the nights away;
    We watch the show of shadows kiss or kill
    Flavoured of celluloid give love the lie.

    III

    Which is the world? Of our two sleepings, which
    Shall fall awake when cures and their itch
    Raise up this red-eyed earth?
    Pack off the shapes of daylight and their starch,
    The sunny gentlemen, the Welshing rich,
    Or drive the night-geared forth.

    The photograph is married to the eye,
    Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth;
    The dream has sucked the sleeper of his faith
    That shrouded men might marrow as they fly.

    IV

    This is the world; the lying likeness of
    Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move
    Loving and being loth;
    The dream that kicks the buried from their sack
    And lets their trash be honoured as the quick.
    This is the world. Have faith.

    For we shall be a shouter like the [censored],
    Blowing the old dead back; our shots shall smack
    The image from the plates;
    And we shall be fit fellows for a life,
    And who remains shall flower as they love,
    Praise to our faring hearts.

    ---Dylan Thomas - Our Eunuch Dreams

  12. Bob Terwilliger said:
    Barb said:

    First time (and only, I think) I had pan bagnat in Phoenix about 25
    years ago, I loved it. Never made it.

    It's my idea of perfect picnic food; it actually gets BETTER when it sits
    for a while.

    Quoted message said:

    Indian Summer

    In youth it was the way I had
    To do my best to please
    To change with every passing lad
    To suit his theories

    But now I know the things I do
    And do the things I do
    And if you do not like me so
    To hell, my love, with you.

    -Dorothy Parker

    I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
    than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
    ---e. e. cummings

    Bob


    Something is happening here but you don't know what it is, do you mr
    Jones.

    r. zimmerman

    --
    Del Cecchi
    "This post is my own and doesn’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions,
    strategies or opinions.”

  13. Melba's Jammin said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,
    "Bob Terwilliger" <virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz> wrote:
    (snip)

    Quoted message said:


    ObFood: Pan Bagnat


    (snip)

    Quoted message said:

    Bob


    To hell, my love, with you.

    -Dorothy Parker
    --

    Tsk..that ol' Algonquin (algorithm?) round table is a thing i routinely
    forget, along with 'further father' or 'father further'?
    ---
    Littleshoes

  14. "Joseph Littleshoes" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Melba's Jammin said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,
    "Bob Terwilliger" <virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz> wrote:
    (snip)

    Quoted message said:


    ObFood: Pan Bagnat


    (snip)

    Quoted message said:

    Bob


    To hell, my love, with you.

    -Dorothy Parker
    --

    Tsk..that ol' Algonquin (algorithm?) round table is a thing i routinely
    forget, along with 'further father' or 'father further'?
    ---
    Littleshoes


    And pray tell, what is
    'further father' or 'father further'?
    I need a laff,
    Dee Dee

  15. In article <[email hidden]>,

    Joseph Littleshoes said:

    Tsk..that ol' Algonquin (algorithm?) round table is a thing i routinely
    forget, along with 'further father' or 'father further'?
    ---
    Littleshoes

    LOL!
    --
    http://www.jamlady.eboard.com

  16. Dee Randall said:

    "Joseph Littleshoes" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Melba's Jammin said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,
    "Bob Terwilliger" <virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz> wrote:
    (snip)
    >
    > ObFood: Pan Bagnat
    (snip)
    > Bob
    To hell, my love, with you.

    -Dorothy Parker
    --

    Tsk..that ol' Algonquin (algorithm?) round table is a thing i


    routinely

    Quoted message said:

    forget, along with 'further father' or 'father further'?
    ---
    Littleshoes


    And pray tell, what is
    'further father' or 'father further'?
    I need a laff,
    Dee Dee

    Marx brothers movie, Grocho is lecturing his son about bad grades at
    school and when finished son says 'will there be anything further,
    father?" and Groucho replies "shouldnt that be farther further?"
    ---
    JL

  17. On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:33:59 GMT, Joseph Littleshoes
    <[email hidden]> connected the dots and wrote:

    ~Bob Terwilliger wrote:
    ~
    ~> Joseph Littleshoes got drunk and posted:
    ~
    ~One Star In Sight--------------------
    ~
    ~Thy feet in mire thy head in murk, oh man how piteous thy plight, the
    ~doubts that daunt the ills that irk, thou hast not wit nor will to
    ~fight.
    ~
    ~How hope in heart or worth in work. No Star in sight.
    ~
    ~Thy "Gods" prooved puppets of the priests.
    ~
    ~"TRUTH" all's relation science sighed! In bondage with thy brother
    ~beast love tortured thee as loves hope died and loves faith rotted,
    life
    ~no lest dim star descried
    ~
    ~Thy cringing carrion cowered and crawled to find a chance cast clod
    ~whose pain was purposeless, appalled it trod its vain agony across
    the
    ~void sky.
    ~
    ~All souls eternally exist. Each individual, ultimate, each makes
    itself
    ~a mist of mind and flesh to celebrate some tender tryst.
    ~
    ~Some drunkards doting on the dream despair that it should die,
    mistake
    ~themselves for their own shadow scheme, one star can summon them to
    ~wake!
    ~
    ~Star soles serene that gleam on life's calm lake
    ~
    ~🙂
    ~
    ~---
    ~JL
    ~
    ~
    ~>
    ~>
    ~> >> ----------------------
    ~> >> Liber XV sec. VII.
    ~> >> ----------------------
    ~> >>
    ~> >> The Anthem
    ~> >> --------------
    ~> <snip>
    ~> >> Aleister Crowley
    ~> >> Gnostic Mass.
    ~> >> The Office of the Anthem.
    ~> >> Liber ABA.
    ~>
    ~> I've always liked this better:
    ~>
    ~> The Hollow Men
    ~>
    ~> I
    ~>
    ~> We are the hollow men
    ~> We are the stuffed men
    ~> Leaning together
    ~> Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
    ~> Our dried voices, when
    ~> We whisper together
    ~> Are quiet and meaningless
    ~> As wind in dry grass
    ~> Or rats' feet over broken glass
    ~> In our dry cellar
    ~>
    ~> Shape without form, shade without colour,
    ~> Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
    ~>
    ~> Those who have crossed
    ~> With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
    ~> Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
    ~> Violent souls, but only
    ~> As the hollow men
    ~> The stuffed men.
    ~>
    ~> II
    ~>
    ~> Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
    ~> In death's dream kingdom
    ~> These do not appear:
    ~> There, the eyes are
    ~> Sunlight on a broken column
    ~> There, is a tree swinging
    ~> And voices are
    ~> In the wind's singing
    ~> More distant and more solemn
    ~> Than a fading star.
    ~>
    ~> Let me be no nearer
    ~> In death's dream kingdom
    ~> Let me also wear
    ~> Such deliberate disguises
    ~> Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
    ~> In a field
    ~> Behaving as the wind behaves
    ~> No nearer --
    ~>
    ~> Not that final meeting
    ~> In the twilight kingdom
    ~>
    ~> III
    ~>
    ~> This is the dead land
    ~> This is cactus land
    ~> Here the stone images
    ~> Are raised, here they receive
    ~> The supplication of a dead man's hand
    ~> Under the twinkle of a fading star.
    ~>
    ~> Is it like this
    ~> In death's other kingdom
    ~> Waking alone
    ~> At the hour when we are
    ~> Trembling with tenderness
    ~> Lips that would kiss
    ~> Form prayers to broken stone.
    ~>
    ~> IV
    ~>
    ~> The eyes are not here
    ~> There are no eyes here
    ~> In this valley of dying stars
    ~> In this hollow valley
    ~> This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
    ~>
    ~> In this last of meeting places
    ~> We grope together
    ~> And avoid speech
    ~> Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
    ~>
    ~> Sightless, unless
    ~> The eyes reappear
    ~> As the perpetual star
    ~> Multifoliate rose
    ~> Of death's twilight kingdom
    ~> The hope only
    ~> Of empty men.
    ~>
    ~> V
    ~>
    ~> Here we go round the prickly pear
    ~> Prickly pear prickly pear
    ~> Here we go round the prickly pear
    ~> At five o'clock in the morning.
    ~>
    ~> Between the idea
    ~> And the reality
    ~> Between the motion
    ~> And the act
    ~> Falls the Shadow
    ~>
    ~> For Thine is the Kingdom
    ~>
    ~> Between the conception
    ~> And the creation
    ~> Between the emotion
    ~> And the response
    ~> Falls the Shadow
    ~>
    ~> Life is very long
    ~>
    ~> Between the desire
    ~> And the spasm
    ~> Between the potency
    ~> And the existence
    ~> Between the essence
    ~> And the descent
    ~> Falls the Shadow
    ~> For Thine is the Kingdom
    ~>
    ~> For Thine is
    ~> Life is
    ~> For Thine is the
    ~>
    ~> This is the way the world ends
    ~> This is the way the world ends
    ~> This is the way the world ends
    ~> Not with a bang but a whimper.
    ~>
    ~> ---T. S. Eliot (1925)
    ~
    ~
    I'm a born-again agnostic
    Hallelujah I've seen the light
    Well I never thought it could happen to me
    'cause I lead such an innocent life
    I felt like Archimedes when he jumped out of the bath
    Eureka I said while inside my head I was doing some sacred math.

    Gonna start my own religion, get my very own tv show
    One that's on every Sunday morning when people are feeling low

    --Robby O'Connor
    maxine in ri

  18. Pardon me boys, is this the lair of Great Cthulu?

    On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:57:12 GMT, Joseph Littleshoes
    <[email hidden]> connected the dots and wrote:

    ~Bob Terwilliger wrote:
    ~
    ~> Bob Terwilliger was obviously drunk when he posted:
    ~>
    ~> >> ----------------------
    ~> >> Liber XV sec. VII.
    ~> >> ----------------------
    ~> >>
    ~> >> The Anthem
    ~> >> --------------
    ~> <snip>
    ~> >> Aleister Crowley
    ~> >> Gnostic Mass.
    ~> >> The Office of the Anthem.
    ~> >> Liber ABA.
    ~>
    ~> I've always liked this better:
    ~
    ~Would you care to compare and discuss it? Stanza for stanza?
    ~
    ~You have made an obvious statement i have just not made up my mind
    yet
    ~precisely what it is.
    ~
    ~As an invitation to discuss the relative merits of the poetry quoted
    i
    ~could get a bit enthusiastic about but other wise, no. I mangled
    the
    ~"One Star In Sight" sadly i could not find my text.
    ~
    ~And i have not yet even posted the Hymn to Pan
    ~---
    ~J (IO PAN IO PAN) L
    ~
    ~> The Hollow Men
    ~>
    ~> I
    ~>
    ~> We are the hollow men
    ~> We are the stuffed men
    ~> Leaning together
    ~> Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
    ~> Our dried voices, when
    ~> We whisper together
    ~> Are quiet and meaningless
    ~> As wind in dry grass
    ~> Or rats' feet over broken glass
    ~> In our dry cellar
    ~>
    ~> Shape without form, shade without colour,
    ~> Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
    ~>
    ~> Those who have crossed
    ~> With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
    ~> Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
    ~> Violent souls, but only
    ~> As the hollow men
    ~> The stuffed men.
    ~>
    ~> II
    ~>
    ~> Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
    ~> In death's dream kingdom
    ~> These do not appear:
    ~> There, the eyes are
    ~> Sunlight on a broken column
    ~> There, is a tree swinging
    ~> And voices are
    ~> In the wind's singing
    ~> More distant and more solemn
    ~> Than a fading star.
    ~>
    ~> Let me be no nearer
    ~> In death's dream kingdom
    ~> Let me also wear
    ~> Such deliberate disguises
    ~> Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
    ~> In a field
    ~> Behaving as the wind behaves
    ~> No nearer --
    ~>
    ~> Not that final meeting
    ~> In the twilight kingdom
    ~>
    ~> III
    ~>
    ~> This is the dead land
    ~> This is cactus land
    ~> Here the stone images
    ~> Are raised, here they receive
    ~> The supplication of a dead man's hand
    ~> Under the twinkle of a fading star.
    ~>
    ~> Is it like this
    ~> In death's other kingdom
    ~> Waking alone
    ~> At the hour when we are
    ~> Trembling with tenderness
    ~> Lips that would kiss
    ~> Form prayers to broken stone.
    ~>
    ~> IV
    ~>
    ~> The eyes are not here
    ~> There are no eyes here
    ~> In this valley of dying stars
    ~> In this hollow valley
    ~> This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
    ~>
    ~> In this last of meeting places
    ~> We grope together
    ~> And avoid speech
    ~> Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
    ~>
    ~> Sightless, unless
    ~> The eyes reappear
    ~> As the perpetual star
    ~> Multifoliate rose
    ~> Of death's twilight kingdom
    ~> The hope only
    ~> Of empty men.
    ~>
    ~> V
    ~>
    ~> Here we go round the prickly pear
    ~> Prickly pear prickly pear
    ~> Here we go round the prickly pear
    ~> At five o'clock in the morning.
    ~>
    ~> Between the idea
    ~> And the reality
    ~> Between the motion
    ~> And the act
    ~> Falls the Shadow
    ~>
    ~> For Thine is the Kingdom
    ~>
    ~> Between the conception
    ~> And the creation
    ~> Between the emotion
    ~> And the response
    ~> Falls the Shadow
    ~>
    ~> Life is very long
    ~>
    ~> Between the desire
    ~> And the spasm
    ~> Between the potency
    ~> And the existence
    ~> Between the essence
    ~> And the descent
    ~> Falls the Shadow
    ~> For Thine is the Kingdom
    ~>
    ~> For Thine is
    ~> Life is
    ~> For Thine is the
    ~>
    ~> This is the way the world ends
    ~> This is the way the world ends
    ~> This is the way the world ends
    ~> Not with a bang but a whimper.
    ~>
    ~> ---T. S. Eliot (1925)
    ~
    ~

  19. Maxine said:

    Pardon me boys, is this the lair of Great Cthulu?

    I think you meant to quote a different message, where I wrote:

    | Heh...reminds me of "Iä! Iä! Yog-Sothoth!"

    Bob

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