GRGR 1:3 (8:20 and other mythical hours)

jporter jp3214 at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 8 06:38:21 CST 2005


	When the typewriters happen to pause
	(8:20 and other mythical hours), and
	there are no flights of American bombers
	in the sky...


These lines from paragraph 2 of section 3 never fail to remind
me of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:815watch.jpg

And, while not a perfect fit with the time, if the hands of the watch 
had
not been stopped so abruptly they would have made 8:20, pointing
to the 4 and 8 respectively:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-fold_path

The path to an entirely different sort of Nirvana.

jody

	Flagstones are slippery with mist...




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