there is a tower where the stones ring
where the rains bring
blue women in the lightning
and the fools cling
to their being
as if it were something
rather than nothing
but the wise know
from their windows
that all men are shadows
shouting meaningless hellos
and hell-no’s
like fire from a broken bellows
or the eye holes
of kids on death rows
where the blood flows
all over your [...]

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This is why I drink 12 cups of coffee every day. I knew there was some reason . . .

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“We can comprehend only a world that we ourselves have made.”
–Nietzsche (Will to Power)
What drove Dante to compose the Divine Comedy? Why did Shakespeare feel the need to invent a private language? Why did Dostoevski cement his vision in prose? Why did Yeats raid old Ireland and conjure historical gyres? [...]

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I was at a show a while ago, and the band was setting up on stage. I felt pretty good, so I slipped temporarily into my pseudo-hippie pre-existence. I thought to myself: “There is music in the world. Why, then, is there war?” Feeling rather elevated by this naive question, [...]

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There is a type of personality that seeks to aggrandize itself above all. If you meet one of these, you’ll know rather quickly. Even the most basic, mundane activity is transformed thru the sheer power of ego into a near cosmic event. If you snoop around any liberal arts college in the [...]

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So over the last 3 days I’ve become an 80 year old man. I don’t like that. I think that’s probably enough of reading Kierkegaard for a while. More music and pot. Yes, yes indeed.

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There was a philosopher who lived in the city. He treasured order above all. His thought was clean and logical, and his heart was pure. Rare indeed, this thinker was. Driven by a cold fever that his acquaintances mistook for illness, he sought The System with a strange intensity. He [...]

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