hag at iafrica reply to entropy
Andrew Dinn
andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Wed Mar 6 06:25:51 CST 1996
OUTRSPACIA at aol.com writes:
[examples of the death-obsessed deleted]
> This list goes on, even to include words in the passage you suggested, for
> instance these about a new birth: "a hood of smell ... human consciousness,
> that poor cripple,
> that deformed and doomed thing, is about to be born . . ." or "It is our
> mission to promote death. The way we kill, the way we die, being unique among
> the Creatures. It was something we had to work on, historically and
> personally. To build from scratch up to its present status as reaction,
> nearly as strong as life, holding down the green uprising. . . ."
You missed out the key line which ends this key passage:
A few keep going over to the titans every day...
The death-system, the control-system, is not all-pervasive. It leaks.
It could not do otherwise. To this cynic that constitutes upbeat.
Andrew Dinn
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And tough Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say: I flow.
To the rushing water speak: I am.
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