Familiarity breathes Ardor

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March is snowy and frozen, clear nights are rare, and the Surveyors need
ev'ry one they can get for Azimuth observations to find the exact
Direction westward, to strike off in. Ev'rything upon the Ground, by
April, as they're about to begin the West Line, must be sighted thro' a
haze of green Resurrection. 

--M&D441

One such green resurrection he could particularize when replaying the
past. 
He saw a flash of crystal, a fleck of color. ADA


There, over the Evening, he will find, among the
Clientele, German Enthusiasts ..." M&D298

In the Middle Ages, when thousands if not millions of Vergers and
Vertograds crackled and howled bound by enthusiasts to stakes erected in
the public squares of Spain and other fire-loving countries. ADA


In pre-Christian times the palm was regarded as a symbol of victory.
Like popping a cherry or turning into a butterfly or winning a laurel in
a contest sexual or athletic. 

Dr. N was Scient in insects? 

The Nicest Incest or Butterfly. 
N had a brother. 
Mariposa. 
Luz always giggles at the transvestites in the shop windows on 8th ave. 
There at the American Museum of Natural History now. Lepidoptera. 

To the the early Christians, the palm became a the symbol of victory in
that war waged by burning desire and the holy spirit. By the spirit
against the flesh. But Van's palm is no symbol of the spirit's victory,
it is flesh burning. She sits on his palm of fire. 
Open palms, puckers of paradise. 

Trees. Animals. Flesh. Barn burning adoration. Pre-religious magic,
Alice. 

All those stale myths, what does it matter--Jove or Jehovah, spire or
cupola, mosques in Moscow, or bronzes and bonzes and clerics, and
relics, and deserts with bleached camel ribs? They are merely the dust
and mirages of the communal mind. She had been a dancing girl (in India)
long before Moses or anybody was born in the lotus swamp. ADA

Christian Green Resurrection guarantees everlasting life so the palmist,
who can offer only a long life, must palm for alms. 

Familiarity breathes ardor, 

Peeping Pat Fetich
VICE Squad, Toyeurism Division