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[Madeleine Maudlin]

Can I just, I think it's, not at all rude or anything, it's one of my
alltime favoritzio films, Five Easy Pieces, obviously Nicholas Cage would
be brilliant in a remake of that, although he might be getting too old for
the role, and Alice, you bring great spice to an often caustickly dull
environment here, but I wonder if anyone else, besides myself, is
occassionly reminded, during a perusal of your postals, of that one lady,
in Five Easy Pieces, who comes to visit that one evening, and talks about
"the *words*"...?


On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:39 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Thayer suspected, and he was correct, that Henry Adams was making fun
> of historians, of the idea that one can measure, number, quantify the
> entropic, though decadence accelerated as the johnny come late to the
> Earth abandoned his more noble creations, including the spiritual and
> the imaginative, most evident in the moral force that was once
> invested in his greatest projects and functioned invisibly as gravity,
> grounding his huministic better angels in a host that looked homeward
> not to Rilkean Cryings of Lots cast against the day, but to an Orphic
> song that gave meaning to the works of hands and days. The Crying of
> history cannot be valued in lots, in paved roads, but is under and in
> the stones, and in the wind, in the haunted winds and in the dreams we
> dream of others who dream of us. The math, could be any law, or rule,
> of thermodynamics, or history, of space, of geology, it matters not.
> the scatterbrained, organic happinings, magically force the universe,
> not in the dirrection, like an arrow, at death, at any telos, but into
> a song that can be heard only when we hear the light that is darkness.
>
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