MDDM Ch. 78: "Have a Cup, Tim..." 759.29

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In a message dated 10/6/02 12:03:08 PM, cathyramirez69 at yahoo.com writes:

<< Funny. ain't it? Gotta love Wicks. >>

    How might I speak of my true "Church," of the
    planet-wide Syncretism, among the Deistic, the
    Oriental, Kabbalistic, and the Savage, that is to
    be,-- The Promise of Man, the redemptive point,
    ever at our God-horizon, towards which all Faiths,
    true and delusional, must alike converge! Instead,
    I can only mumble and blurt, before the radiance
    of these young Pietists, something about being
    between preferments at the moment, so askew
    in my thoughts that I've forgotten my new Com-
    mission, and indeed the Purpose of my Journey...

356.07.

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BDSL, Penguin, 1996, p12-13:

"
A generation in the mold, The Great White Pattern
Maker lying in his prosperous bed, grinning while the
liquid cools. But he does not know my bellows. Some-
one there is who will huff and will puff. The sophomores
in their new junior blazers, like Saturday's magazines
out on Thursday. Freshly covered textbooks from the
campus store, slide rules dangling in leather, sheathed 
broadswords, chinos scrubbed in virgin fiber, starch
pressed into straight-razor creases, Oxford shirts
buttoned down under crewneck sweaters, blue eyes
bobbing everywhere, stunned by the android synthesis
of one-a-day vitamiins, Tropicana orange juice, fresh
country eggs, Kraft homogenized cheese, tetra-packs
of fortified milk, Cheerios with sun-ripened bananas,
corn-flake-breaded chicken, hot fudge sundaes, Dairy
Queen root beer floats, cheeseburgers, hybrid creamed
corn, riboflavin extract, brewer's yeast, crunchy peanut
butter, tuna fish casseroles, pancakes and imitation
maple syrup, chuck steaks, occasional Maine lobster,
Social Tea biscuits, defatted wheat germ, Kellog's 
Concentrate, chopped string beans, Wonderbread,
Bosco, Birds Eye frozen peas, shredded spinach,
French-fried onion rings, escarole salads, lentil stews,
sundry foul innards, Pecan Sandies, Almond Joys,
aureomycin, penicillin, antitetanus toxoid, smallpox
vaccine, Alka-Seltzer, Empirin, Vicks VapoRub, Arrid
with chlorophyll, Super Anahist nose spray, Dristan
decongestant, billions of cubic feet of wholesome,
reconditioned breathing air, and more wholesome
breeds of fraternal exercise available to Western
man. Ah, the regimented good will and force-fed
confidence of those who are not meek but will
inherit the earth all the same."
 

Hallelujah! and,

regards