M&D. The ear
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 20:49:42 CDT 2015
Deaf only to the petitions for help.
On Sunday, March 22, 2015, Mark Sacha <msacha1121 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe not so much deaf as wilfully withholding. It's "priapick" (odd
> association), very receptive, demanding to hear. Mournival serves as a
> mouthpiece in absentia to explain its purposes and limits, a cooperating
> party of sorts: front end/back end. That's the racket: The ear builds a
> database, for purposes obscure, and Mournival, its ostensible handler,
> makes sure it keeps getting fed.
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:12 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Stone cold deaf to all supplication. If the ear hears all prayers without
>> response, does the tree ever fall in the woods?
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Sunday, March 22, 2015, Mark Sacha <msacha1121 at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','msacha1121 at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> p. 179 - "is the Void, and the very anti-Oracle-- revealing nothing, as
>>> it absorbs ev'rything. One kneels and begs, one is humiliated, one crawls
>>> on."
>>>
>>> subterranean accessory to the all-seeing eye.
>>>
>>
>
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