MDMD

[Terrance]

Thomas Eckhardt wrote:
> 
> It is oh so great to hear from you, Terrance. Yes, let us continue MDMD.
> Literature is not just some form of entertainment which becomes
> irrelevant in times of political, ethical, spiritual crisis. Just the
> opposite is the case.
> 
> Well, at least that's what I think.
> 
> Thomas

I sat and read Pericles' Funeral Oration, an inspiration to
President Lincoln and I thought to read from Kennedy's
Profiles in Courage, but sometimes even literature and music
is n o substitute for tears. 

The list of men and women that have been imprisoned, their
crimes, their religious zeal, an anonymity we might call it,
or an insanity, is a very long list. We could list just a
few of the mystics that came to America and we could begin
with Fox. Taking a broader perspective we could include John
the Baptist, Jesus, Paul
.  I suspect that P, as is his
bent, is going to weave the 1960s into this novel and so we
might also include, Martin Luther King and Ghandi and
Thoreau, even Betrand Russell and Ali. 

Yesterday, as I watched the world in silence mourn, I was
disturbed by the priests at the pulpit, the political
opportunists, the trivializing of the Big D by the media.
All seemed to be preparing congregations, constituencies,
consumers, for war. I thought if only we might close our
eyes from these sights of woe, of horror
To have one of
those moments. Mystics monks. Will you be as gods? Gaze in
your omphalos. But I'm afraid the ineluctable modality of
the visible will not yield to naval gazing contemplation
now. 

Peace, 

T