=jr0508a JOURNAL, Aug '05, Version a From 19 Aug '05 to -- 6 Sept '05 and counting ------------------------------------------------------------------ These Websites are a melange. Whatever you want to read about will be scattered amongst a variety of documents. Autobiographic remarks appear in footnotes to teachings of R. Shlomo and of PVK. Remarks on Sufi theory appear in footnotes to teachings of PVK. Remarks on Zenith Camp appear in poems. Some of those poems are true, some ain't. All these jr *.txt docs are a melange of what on prvious Webistes is 3 differetnt docs -- po*.txt (poems ), jp*.txt (Letters to the editor), purav*.txt (non_orthodox notes on Judaism), and miscellaneous notes, mostly on philosphy. Hover, here the poems are most of them still rough_draft. The Letters to the editor, however, are in final form. The rest would also be in rough draft. N.B: These poems -- all of them merely rough_draft -- do constitute a sort of Journal of my private mini__melo_drama, but they ain't in sequence -- I type them from scraps of paper, whatever floats to the top of my in_box. So it's like reading a book at random rather than from start to end. ----------------------------------------------------------------- - Tuesday 06:15 -- they take away the trash. Tuesday 08:30 -- Honest George's Hired Hand and brain brings out the Restorante trash and fills up one of the two bins with it to sit there one week more because there's room there now. (Campra, 9 Aug '05 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------ The dinner gong clangs. I walk up to Camp and when I get there the food has gone back down to Campra. ------------------------------------------------------------------ HIK's 'Ziraat' was an abandoned rough draft of PVK's 'dissolve et coagule' , I guess. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ain't intersected two kitchen meals in a week. Scrounging peanut butter for supper and she walks walks by and says, 'Good appetite.' ---------------------------------------------------------------- Me 'n Catullus; One word from her lightens my morning Even a gesture. He shares her tent now. I say, 'Hi, how're you doing.' He replies, 'OK'. ---------------------------------------------------------------- I ain't intersected two kitchen meals all week. Don't need new pants now though. Scrounge a few bread spreads and she says, 'Good appetite.' ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sent JP (polished here): The 9 Aug 05 Post Editorial declaims, muddily: "We hpe and expect that Netanyashu will use his new position at the head of the disngagement camp to set bright red lines against attempting to thwardt disengagement by refusal and by force, even in a supposedly non_violent manner." Netanyu is not at the head of the anti_disengagement movement, he is at its tail. Bright red lines are s sign of blood poisoning. And Thoreu, protesting a law requiring citizens of free states to return fugitive slaves, demonstrated that when unust or even dangerously unwise laws are enacted, non_violent civil disobedience -- which may include the non-violent use of force, although primarily only against objects -- of unjust laws is the right and moral obligation of citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------- (This following appears in sketched form in =jrj050641.txt): Sent JP 6 Aug '05, printed 8 Aug '05 Carolyn Glick wrote >)Column 1, 5 Aug '05), 'The global jihad ... is rooted not in terrorism, but in culture and religion.' No; it is rooted in facistic nihilism, the opposite of both cultre and religion. And to "expose and destroy the culture" would itself be nihilisitc. It seems melodramatic to write of a 'global jihad'; ther is an amporhpus and chaotic movement, composed only in part of Islamic fundeamentaists, which uses terrorism as a tactic. --------------------------------------------------------------- Hitch-hiking on planet earth. --------------------------------------------------------------- Me 'n Catullus; One word from her lightens my morning Even a gesture. He shares her tent now. I say, 'Hi, how're you doing.' He replies, 'OK'. ---------------------------------------------------------------- I ain't intersected two kitchen meals all week. Don't need new pants now though. Scrounge a few bread spreads and she says, 'Good appetite.' ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sent JP (polished here): The 9 Aug 05 Post Editorial declaims, muddily: "We hpe and expect that Netanyashu will use his new position at the head of the disngagement camp to set bright red lines against attempting to thwardt disengagement by refusal and by force, even in a supposedly non_violent manner." Netanyu is not at the head of the anti_disengagement movement, he is at its tail. Bright red lines are s sign of blood poisoning. And Thoreu, protesting a law requiring citizens of free states to return fugitive slaves, demonstrated that when unust or even dangerously unwise laws are enacted, non_violent civil disobedience -- which may include the non-violent use of force, although primarily only against objects -- of unjust laws is the right and moral obligation of citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------- (This following appears in sketched form in =jrj050641.txt): Sent JP 6 Aug '05, printed 8 Aug '05 Carolyn Glick wrote >)Column 1, 5 Aug '05), 'The global jihad ... is rooted not in terrorism, but in culture and religion.' No; it is rooted in facistic nihilism, the opposite of both cultre and religion. And to "expose and destroy the culture" would itself be nihilisitc. It seems melodramatic to write of a 'global jihad'; ther is an amporhpus and chaotic movement, composed only in part of Islamic fundeamentaists, which uses terrorism as a tactic. --------------------------------------------------------------- Rainy day in the Alps. Car drives up Italian plate stops in the parking lot guy leans out the window and says "Where are the mushrooms?" (Campra, 21 Aug '05 ) ------------------------------------------------------------- She got pregnant. Her lover's parents went to Sharm el Sheik and got blown up by a terrorist. Her lover sent her an SMS: 'It's either the baby or me.' Two hours later she started to bleed. (Campra, 21 Aug '05 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Micromanagement on a Sunny Day: "Hew. What are you doing. Somebody put that there." 'I put it there. Against the rain. Ain't raining now.' "But it might rain again." 'Might.' ------------------------------------------------------------ If it's about taking the Boss's Gortex jacket mistaking it for my Mea Shearim all_nylon El_Cheapo I can explain and as for cutting off the drawstrings with my Swissknife when they tangled my Alpenstock ----- Well hell, King David at Ein Gedi. (22 Aug '05 -- 17 Av ) -------------------------------------------------------------- Shakespeare is continually out_voted by his stereotypes. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Applied Lobster: I get mad at Management. They spoil my world. Agnieska says 'Eat whats's good and leave the rest.' ---------------------------------------------------------------- "I like looking at you. Thank you for having been here." Ok, call Mme. Toussaud and make it permanent. --------------------------------------------------------- Four adults and one child have gone berry-picking. The adults are of intermittent sexes and tongues. The adults hold all the berries. The child wants some. He lies down on the ground and says so. They all stnad around him and play him like an adult saying, You will get your share but only when you behave. (Campra, 28 Aug '05 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve the Thief: Somoene in a flatbed drives up to my humble home and says, We are looking for the wheelbarrow. Darn -- caught again. That was my private rickashaw. (Campra, Sunday sunset, 28 Aug ) -------------------------------------------------------------- Sent, JP, about 1 week before Gaza explusion (presumably not published): Sharon should shoot himself. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sent JP, 1 Sept '05: Subject: Sharon as Buffoon: Sharon should save his money, kill a cat, and get a brain transplant. Even the Romans were not stupid enough to intentinoally create a dispossessed, landless class. Especially not one with sophisticated military skills. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Re: IHT 2 Sept '05 It is already apparent that the Bush Administration, unled by Clueless George, has terribly underestimated and mismanaged the New Orleans flood. It is particularly shocking that air evacuation of sick and wounded was entrusted to a civilian contractor who suspended operations after someone fired a shot at one of his helicopters. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Steve the Thief, II: He hangs a rag on a tree where I eat. Two days later he says to the Construction Chief I will oil the whaziz but I need a rag to do it I think Steve took it. The Construction Chief says 'Hey Steve did you take a rag from the tree?." Once I stole a Bible, but when I got it home it had only 9 Commandments. (Sunday, 4 Sept '05 -- Rosh Hodesh I Elul ) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Once I stole a Bible, but when I got it home it had only 9 Commandments. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "We will be back in 3 days. Please don't take any food. I've locked the kitchen." Yeah, sure. Well, have a good spiritual retreat. (Campra, 4 Sept '05) -------------------------------------------------------------- Return of the TakeDown Camp Staff: In maybe 1975 I ran the Tax/Welfare Advocacy Office in Phillips Brooks House at Harvard College. I covered the walls with Staff Memos of things to do and to not do. My Staff was one volunteer a few afternoons a week. (Casmpra, 6 Sept '05 ) -------------------------------------------------------------- Bush is a dead lame duck now. (6 Sept '05) --------------------------------------------------------------- Re: IHT 6 Sept '05 (Arnold) -- Kaaza ruled illegal in Austrailia. An invention or creation cannot be ruled illegal just because it may be used for illegal purposes. Otherwise darned near nothing would be legal. Even if it can be shown that it was intentionally created for an illegal purpose -- military development excluded, of course -- it is not clear what crime was committed. Conspiracyx to facilitate certain criminal activities, maybe. But conspiracy is itself problematic, since it criminalizes an activity that in itself does not harm. Of course that returns us to the gun_lovers' slogan, "guns don't kill people, people do." Kazaa was ordered to modify its software so as not to display copryright material offered for sharing by individual owners. That seems reasonable. Napster was prevented from using a central server to hold files offered for sharing. Well, it would seem reasonable to prevent the download of individually owned copyright material from a central server. But storage on a central server is precisely what I need to make my audio input of lectures available to those whom the copyright holder, or copyright claimant, would not object to having download it. Grokster was subject to a "Supreme Cour ruling that the company was liable because, as part of its business, jit offered advice to cusomters on how to enage in illegal file_sharing." But that is preposerous, since the same advice would govern legal and illegal file_sharing. Again, an activity, and enabling an activity, cannot be illegalized just because some may do it for illegal purposes. Anyhow, the underlying assumption that theft occurs when a person obtains something at reduced or practically no cost, and with no payment to the ownder, on the assumption that that person would otherwise have purchased the item from the legal ownder at asking price, is presposterous. No economist would accept that assumption. Nor the inventor nor producer of a device or prodcut be obliged to "discourage" those who obtain it from using it illegally. Otherwise we get into an imossibly fallibilistic situation, where unlimited disclaimers would be required, and the producer / inventer potentially liable for any possible illegal use for which a discliamer -- or worse, an effective disclaimer -- had been issued. So that ciminality is shifted from the criminal to the producer of the device used by tghe criminal. As for the notion that "unauthorized sharing is theft " -- that too is nonsense. Indidiuals do not ordinarily seek nor need authorization to share what they have. ---------------------------------------------------------------- "I have lost a grey cape that Pir gave me. It was taken from the back of my car." 'Yes of course. The one like mountain mist lined with woven rainbows -- it's right up there. I tried to take it, but it keeps slipping off.' (Campra, ca. 24 Aug '05 ) Cf. HIK (1302): "If you have lost something, it means that you have either risen above it or fallen below it." ------------------------------------------------------------------- On a quiet afernoon when I have lots of thoughts to untangle he leads group drumming inside a concrete building on the eecond floor. Four times he has said, 'I've lost my denin jacket. Did you find it.' Once in Taos I got a Lee lined denim jacket and wore it for about a year. If you drum in Taos better drum good. (Campra, ca. 22 Aug '05) ----------------------------------------------------------------- I left the Koran and the goy Gospels on the table for whoever needed it on day too long. Somoone took 'em. Once I stole a Bible but when I got it home it had only 9 Commandments. (Campra TakeDown Camp, ca. 1 Sept '05) Notes: My father had an ashtray on his basement worktable, by the drillpress. It had a carton by Wm. Stein illustrating the saying, "If you are good_natured, people step all over you." ------------------------------------------------------------------ Locked out of the Staff House once again and they've still got my salt there. (Campra, 6 Sept '05 ) --------------------------------------------------------------- Dialogue with a politically correct executive: He stands outside my door with a possible hodyguard offers no hello and says, Give it back to me now. I walk out and ask him to step away. He stays there before the unlocked door and says 'There's no need to get aggressive.' :Offensive Defense (Campra, 6 Sept '05) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sent IHT 8 Sept Re IHT 7 Sept '05 Bush and Cheney will investigate what went wrong. And where wre they during the destruction of New Orleans -- on the planet Mars? ------------------------------------------------------------------- He's stopped singing since he started lying. (Campra, 7 Sept '05 ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sent IHT 8 Sept Re: IHT 7 Sept '05 (Editorial) Judge Roberts, incongruously nominated as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, writes of "a so_called 'right to privacy', implying that personal privacy is neither a human right nor even a civil right. But personal privacy is the pre_requisite of all human rights. That is expressed in the Bill or Rivhts: the people shall be secure in ther person and possessions from unreasonable search and seizure. Otherwise rape would be legal, especially in the guise of police 'body searches'. --------------------------------------------------------------- "Between Camps I never visit Zenith people." Mazaltov; and we are maybe garden gnomes? (Campra, ca. 30 Aug '05 ) --------------------------------------------------------------- Sent JP 9 Sept '05 In the last analyis, the Jews of Gaza proved themselves freiers. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Abraham sent Hagar off with practically no waste. And so today they've paid me off with 400 grams of almond paste. (Campra, 10 Sept '05, Shabat) ---------------------------------------------------------------- I use my body nowadays mostly for a parking place. Occsionally it takes me out for something nice to eat, or for a nice refreshing airing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- A large buck llies in a pickup truck felled in fair fight with a headlight_hunter with a hi_tech spy_glass and a thousand dollar gun. It says yesterday I was a deer now I am just rotting meat I did not want to go yet. (Campra, Shabat 11 Sept '05 -- 7 Elul ) ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Today everyone is leaving but me. I will leave in a week and when I go you can hae all the food that's left." No problem; we always fast in Elul :Smarg with a case of milk and 2 sacks of potatoes (Campra, 12 Sept '05 ) --------------------------------------------------------------- For three weeks they've been saying one after another 'Don't take food now, wait 'till we go, then you can have it all.' They ain't gone yet and there ain't much left except the potatoes. (Campra, 12 Sept '05) ---------------------------------------------------------------- strong and elegant like Blake's Builders but must be a rat though he sure don't look it -- All alone in the House with a half-wheel of rubber cheese left and won't let me in the door. (Campra 12 Sept '05) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sent JP 24 Aug '05 The Veiotnam war truined the U.S. Army for a generation. Sharon's Gaza sellout will likely do something similar to the IDF. -------------------------------------------------------- Is ZR flipping out or has that just become his accutomed managerial style. (Campra, ca. 24 Aug '05, after having been implicitly accused of stealing darned near everything but the moon. ) ----------------------------------------------------------- ADD TO VAAD POEM, PREVIOUS JR*.TXT Fragments of a Reply: I beg you, thou its rather odd have merce please, upon the Va'ad Vaad has a heart like you or me XXXXXX sundries his old lady's undies whatever he's got it sure ain't pot to throw young mama's on the street it is for Vaads a special treat a Red Alert is heart and thence we throw it over the Rabbi's fence whence to this day the people say 'Cut the Rabbi's grass today.' Listen Comrades and you shall hear -- Just once, we had a read Shomer here maybe somebody's uncle wanted his job and ratted him out for long-gone job Unless that fink hammers nails with his head if he reads Shemoneh Esre on weekdays he's dead. Here's our Gemtleman, and rather a grand one: he tells the truth, but only at random. You've evidently got my goat but I'll fight back, for I'm a poet. and if this is poem then Pope does rap. ? lst Preface, some gather ? REWRITE FROM =pomo0504 from JR*., posted I think Applied Loshon Hora Get por*. Pre-emptory reply to any potential critic: "I can make little of your letter; if you can then write this better." Now for my virtues or my sins I'm exiled from our Holy Land In fifty years ('twas quite a feat) we've covered it over with concrete a thousand cars a minute pass carcinogenic unleaded gas security crooks came quick and 'gyp'd us of our shield of eucalyptus a bungalow steel re-inforced concrete da-da-da a summer oven ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hillonim Reconsidered: Some dum_de_da_dumb whom I have not known is trying to throw me out of my home It seems in brief the wraith* is meaning to use me for his Pesach cleaning. Now what can I save from the wreck of this involuntary Exodus. Notes: *wraith -- Cf. Tolkien's Trilogy -- 'Ring-wraith' -- a being, formerly human, spiritually and ethically eviscerated by power. (Campra, 15 April '05 -- 6 Nisan ) -------------------------------------------------------------- 'Fixing'* Reconsidered: "And if the goyim wear red shoelaces, we wear black." (?Kitzer Shulchan Aruch? (paraphrase)) "Oh Pious Ones"** you've done me wrong so when I'm tempted to a sin _____( conquilles sans Jacques*** or similar stock -- __________or stroganoff is sin enough -- _______________I ought not err so far off course _______________as eat my my pig or dog or horse ____________________though Friday bedtime I just might ____________________flick on and off the potty light _________________________and will continue if you please _________________________to try the Alpine yellow cheese ______________________________I cannot deem it such a crime ______________________________to mix with milk a bovine enzyme ______________________________'tis less than one part under sixty (and even (it may come to that!) from time to time take off my hat) I'll think of you and do it. (Campra 15 April '05 ) Notes: * Fixing -- Tikun -- Cf. Malmud, 'The Fixer' A tikun is the compensation if not rectification of a worldly inustice ** "Oh Pious Ones" -- Rumi, as translated -- "Forgive me, oh pious ones, I am drunk with ecstacy' (quoted from memory) *** Conquilles St. Jacque -- some sort of scallop dish, no doubt fried with herbs and white wine in butter, which I would often see advertised at a restaurant in the Old Town of Rodos, but then, to my regret, resisted. I did once make it for a Jewish young woman whom I was, if not quite courting, sporting; she subsequently married another. ---------------------------------------------------------- Fragments of a Reply: Some dumb_de_de_duimb whom I have not known is trying to lock me out of my home to throw young mama's in the street this is for Vaad's a special treat I beg you, thou its rather odd have merce please, upon the Va'ad Vaad has a heart like you or me XXXXXX sundries his old lady's undies whatever he's got it sure ain't pot to throw young mama's on the street it is for Vaads a special treat a Red Alert is heart and thence we throw it over the Rabbi's fence whence to this day the people say 'Cut the Rabbi's grass today.' Listen Comrades and you shall hear -- Just once, we had a read Shomer here maybe somebody's uncle wanted his job and ratted him out for long-gone job Unless that fink hammers nails with his head if he reads Shemoneh Esre on weekdays he's dead. Here's our Gemtleman, and rather a grand one: he tells the truth, but only at random. You've evidently got my goat but I'll fight back, for I'm a poet. and if this is poem then Pope does rap. ? lst Preface, some gather ? though I hang in my lines of iambic pentameter and burn midst faggots of half_rhymed couplets or languish in hell for loshon hora for here comes more of the same I've got poetic license at a Penny Arcade by Boston Bay (not that severe, it was Revere) where I shtupped a penny into the slot and this is what I got for that ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dogs bite her. "Like licks like." (Catullus) She lets them use her to nip at the kippers. The highway woman stands and robs the passengers by saying 'Please don't run over me.' ----------------------------- "the Modi'in Vaad -- may they make an honest living selling herring in a chamsin -- " [QV reb-shlomo SENT's ] Vaad Ganovim is sad to hear its prstine name you did besmear Can't smear an oil_slick. we abhor a corpate_d lashon hora 'sell herring in a chamsin' and even more what rankles to specified if salt or pickled or like the Dutch to 'eat it raw' and can't imagine such abuse was your intention but here's what's simply past forgiving: Vaads never make 'an honest living'. ------------------------------------------------------------------ What does Wittgenstein say: We're in it, so do the best you can and stop dithering. He says: Sometimes life lets you down, don't hold back for fear of that, and don't play CYA ('cover_your_ass', ie, take an unduly cautious position for fear of repercussions if you fail -- which was the main factor behind the criminally negligently delay in rescuing victimes of the New Orleans flood. also apparently Bush had delegated very little responsibility to others, and for days was rather intentionally unaware of the crisis. --------------------------------------------------------------- Piato di giorno -- Medaglia di cervezo George and his dead horse sustain the Restorante. It's hard to say who's the smaller and which one has the brains. (Sunday, 18 Sept '05 -- 13 Elul ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes And we'll all go down to meet her when she comes [ That is the first trip of a new railroad line -- USA 1800's -- probably Rocky Mountains ] She'll be wearing silk pyjamas when she comes [ USA, maybe mid>_1900's) She'll be wearing silk pyjamas (either hers or else her mamas) [ sa, it nicely deflates the sexism by switching the perspective to female ] And we'll all go down to meet her; we will beat our meat to greet her [sa -- Cf. sa, Imitation of Iliad 1: Achilles to Priam: "And if I catch 'oo, you addle_pated spy, meeting your beat about our great_wombed troopships" "Do your beat your meat under the sheet because of the heat?" (A question frequently asked in locker rooms of Belmont Senior High School, ca. 1957. The correct answer was apparently, "Not like you do, Doozer", if the question was posed by one John Dwyer, nicknamed 'Doozer.' Just a dash of Americana while I try to warm up enough to put yesterday's coffee on the hotplate. [ sa, Campra, 20 Sept '05, about 5 degrees C , mostly outside, with the wind blowing to maybe 45 MPH or more.] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Calvin and Hobbes, Sept. '05 Calvin: We rely on sight to confirm the existence of things. We don't belive in thing we can't see. So how do we know that no_see_ums exist. [ N.B. -- No_see_ums is the name for a biting insect smaller than a mosquito, so small one can barely see it. They are common in Israel, maybe in parts of the U.S.A. ] Verification is ruled out by definition. It's an ontological quandary. Hobbes: Hold still a moment. Calvin: Ooh, I itch. (Scratching) Hobbes: gGlad I oculd help. Comment: Although empiricist epistemology never explicitly said that it was restricting perception to visual perception, and disregarding the other 4 senses, all its examples and discussions seem to consider only the visual. I don't know of any work that attempts to explicate the logic of non_visual knowlege -- theory of non_visual knowlege, that is -- not even auditory perception, which would seem to be the most -- if not common, at least most used in -- well, academic knowlege, as distinct from common_sense knowlege. Of course for animals, smell may be the most important, especially in matters of hunting and mating. PVK once said, it must be harder to be deaf than to be blind. As for touch and taste, those are scarcely considered at all. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ascending to underground emplacement high in the mountains the Swiss Army in ?grande convoy? slows to crawl behind a bicyclist -------------------------------------------------------------- Variations on a traditional American theme: Theme: "Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp brave couraveous and bold -- Long live his name, and long live his glory and long may his story be told." (USA TV theme song, 1950's) Variation 1, by Carl Sharager (Oberflin Conservatory of Music) Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp brave courageou sand smelly. Supplement to Varioan 1 (sa) Long like his name, and long live his glory and long live his daughter (named Nelly). (Carl Sharager may ahvae collaborated on the supllement. I don't know recall clearly. It's not the sort of thing one ordinarily remembers. ) --------------------------------------------------------------- The Poet Counts his Riches: Just so for this summer I've now been paid: 2 very small pieces of ginger 1 old yellow apple 72 small potatoes a bit of light cream in an opened carton enough berry syrup to make one glass about a hundred grams of black tea in a large can 6 liter cartons of Ultra_High_Test erstwhile milk a hair of raspberry syrup 8 cookies assorted grotties with artifical aromae 16 and two halves amaretto cookies, of dubitable prvenance (an offering to 16 and two halves plastic birds) a bit of my own granola many sesame seeds popcorn and whilte flour for the birds white sugar for the tourists They say, Now you'll hae enough to eat all winter But haply have I stolen: a U.S. Postal Service Mailback, patched, old 15 years ago From Honest George: 7 promotional apertif glasses, no two alike From Zenith Camp: 4 portable refrigerator packs, lacking only the refrigerator from Sr. Vanzetti one old harmonica, several months abandoned 3 blankets, 2 mattress, and 2 pillows, some of which for guests and all as loan and that's about all. (Campra, 21 Sept '05 -- Autumn Equinox -- 17 Elul) ---------------------------------------------------------------- "He's too authoritarian. Everyone knows it but him. So he bound to know it too sooner or later." ˙(Campra, ca. 14 Sept '05 ) --------------------------------------------------------------- (after Woody Allen); At the end of the piece process the ljion will down with the lamb, but will they both get up for breakfast? (Woody Allen: "The lion will lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep.") ---------------------------------------------------------------- We have a new alpha gorilla. Before introducing himself he sits for hours looking and reading. A grey sensitive intellectual. (Campra, July '05 ) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Germany should pay reparations to the world for a thousand years and then turn itself into a marina. ------------------------------------------------------------- Evidently assuming that I'd stolen it (Maybe to ride hom free since walking on waves is for goyim) Igor whom I've known for a decade take a unicycle from my front portch and tells me 5 days later which is 2 days after I ask. (Campra, ca. 26 Aug '05 ) ---------------------------------------------------------- I'm caught at the Lost_and_Found finding someting lost. They say 'You can't take that yet -- Wait one week when no_one claims it and then everyone can take it.' (Campra, 27 Aug '05 ) ----------------------------------------------------------------- A hundred people on the Staff List I've done more work than half of them put together and she can't remember my name. ---------------------------------------------------------------- fuckaduck There goes my private rickashow. ---------------------------------------------------------------- She locks the Lost_and_Found in the potty_room. No shit, no wash, no see, no touch until the day of the Great Giveaway today (30 Aug '05, Campra) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Goethe and Zeus, the critics says had a most magnificent story of lays. GRUSHENKA has 's history but why she choses whom she does for sure's a Lesser Mystery. (after T.S. Eliot , "Grushenka has a mainonette") ------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Israeli's "lead from the front" -- a leader should never ask anyone to do something if he can do it himself. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sent JP 26 Aug '05 Sharon's expulsion of Jews from Gaza, to appears the USA (maybe in response to blackmail over the Greek Islands affair ) -- is a betrayal of the principles of his party, his electoral mandate, and of Zionism, and will be seen to have been a catastropchi mistake on levels. But the buildings should be left intact, preferably as Israeli military bases, but otherwise for Palestinian civilians. ----------------------------------------------------------------- If our cook got a job on a pirate ship, he could catch fish without a line. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 'I'm worried. 50 people in a bookshop at the high end of that long tea_tent might break down the strut_work.' 'No problem. Last year Shahabudin had 300 people in the meditation tent jumping up and down ‹n unison and the frame didn't collapse.' (Zenith Camp, 24 July '05 ) ----------------------------------------------------------------- PiRQeI AvOT 3:17 RaBI AeL'aZaR BeN 'aZaRIaH AOMeR: AIM AIN TORaH, AIN DeReKh AeReTz AIM AIN DeReKh AeReTz, AIn TORaH (Posted on the locked door of the room used for the Leaders' Camp, which had also housed most of the Zenith Staff showers and toilets.) 'ein torah, ein derek eretz' is a critique of secularism per se -- it seems to me it is descriptive, not necessay -- secular humanism at its best shoiuld produce derk eretz without torah -- though we see it does not -- eg, men marrying men -- 'ein derek eretz, ein torah' -- This is necessar, not descriptive -- derek eretz -- ' way land ' -- It means, if you come to Switzerland, go hiking (don't siet all day in a meditation tent) Little Joe said, 'I have no Bible, I read it all in nature' tia Esterson of Mevo Modi'in said, 'less sweetness and light, more human decency HIK said, 'democrach of the ego' ( 'and aristocracy of the soul') It was said of Al Smith, who ran for President (and lost= that he treated all men the same, a prince or a pauper. Marx said, Don't 'dis'[respectd] the working class. Derk eretz is common ethics -- it goes with 'common sense' -- it is the wy the common peple get through life -- so it is the secular -- complement, not analogue -- of halacha -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------ The guru has a private room and doubtless showers every day and all the guru's pupils say 'how pure is he -- how filthy we it thusly must be meant to be and so we shall his servants be' ---------------------------------------------------------------- 400 to 4 W.C.0's although the Leaders do have plenty ther's 4 more for scarcely twenty just so the Leaders can give classes to edify the unwashed masses wit h fragrant oils they cleanse their hair while hoi polloi must do with air if they don't make some others soon few wieves may ever leae the moon and lovers from their trysts will blush to sense each other still in must the more the morning's clamours pray 'Let's put all that aside today' The guru, natural order muddles: now children must beware mud puddles (and if you deem this mewling verse the subject_matter merits worse) another blah blah blah blah vexes is nudley to be viewed by sexes complementary a gentleman of dwindling art with less anxiety [may] bathe apart perhaps my words are somewhat loose a shower is not quite a 'douche'. -------------------------------------------------------------- How do you feel You steal my dignita and would pour mockery upon injury nx stealing as well my anger -- the last garment I have left on this cross from which I can go neither forward nor back. ---------------------------------------------------------------- What Sufi Sam Lewis called 'the glance' is , I think, what we call 'the evil eye'. Or close to it. A Junior Birdman once tried that on me, when I refused to let him drive up to camp. I punched him in the face, though not hard. Malik said, I would have helped you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Secretary is in love clock ticking She locks out the workers from the showers. Dianah was not so well guarded. --------------------------------------------------------------- "turn the other cheek" but don't get off the pot (Cf. RSC and PVK XX ---------------------------------------------------------------- * After every meal the Cook throws the trash out the door and washes the kitchen floor. (Campra, 31 July '05 ) --------------------------------------------------------------- * "In the wee small hours of the morning" (Sinatra) my hotel television says Fuck Ass Suck & Tits. I'd rather think that sometimes love might too be made of gentler bits. (1 Aug '05, Andermatt ) --------------------------------------------------------------- * To whatever you say IGOR will give his fullest sympathy and no consideration. :Clinton did it too ----------------------------------------------------------------- Agnieka sometimes toils away the sins of man upon her back. :After a remark by the protagoniste. --------------------------------------------------------------- Andermatt ahs a new campground with a little recyling center. I put a plastic bottle in the box and a little Swiss pops out of door and says 'Sorry, this is private.'. (Andermatt, 4 Aug '05 ) --------------------------------------------------------------- An Armadillo walks on down the highway despite hurt feelings. ----------------------------------------------------------- REWORDINSS OF SACRED TEXTS: "Therefore with joy our song shall soar to praise the LORD for evermore." (translation of lyrics by Martin Lutheer to lines from Bach's 'Wacht auf, ruft uns de Stimme' "I am eating the read of this world and doing the work that world and eating the bread of that world and doing the work of this world" (based on a remark in Zenith class by PVK, after Zuleika's setting of a lyric by Rabia ) --------------------------------------------------------------- * The Eagle is flying somewhere. It's time for us to make supper. (Campra, June '05 -- Lake Lugano, Shavuot ----------------------------------------------------------------- PVK -- You say, if it wer not for that, I could advance spiritually -- but mybe this is the very thing you need to advance spiritually. (Cf. Heraklitus -- Every animal is driven to pasture by a blow) -- This makes sens eonly if we see spiritualit as in_the_world, not beyond_the_world ------------------------------------------------------------ * Who sees a slight where none's intended has no right to feel offended. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sophisticalted manager: The boses do something crazy treting the workers like dirt to brownose the customers. So I go away for 4 days on strike hiking I come back the CEO says We hear you did something crazy again You ran away. (Campra, 5 Aug '05 ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Tzdaka is entailed by the Shema. One must stress the AND -- this is a conjuction -- both terms are necessary -- Shma ANd -- with all your heart, soul, and "all you've got" (Blonde Larry on New Buffalo -- "The only rule is, there are no rules, and to live here costs all you've got." ------------------------------------------------------------- As I wait a late bus a young blonde bicyclise goes by in translucent red body suit showing a thong. Now there's a passed ass to write poems about. ------------------------------------------------------------- * To expand time stay calm. ---------------------------------------------------------------- In the Swiss Railway lst_class casrriage Milano__Lugano__Zurich a trim young black woman makes a cellphone call and then lies down on the double seat and the fat man sitting opposite her lights a cigarette. (28 July '05 ) ------------------------------------------------------------- Vanity Fair is here for sure Magic Mountain? Yeah, we got one too. --------------------------------------------------------------- 'I like your T_shirt' OK, you can buy it. 'No, I like the way depicted waves roll over your belly.' So please be my puppy poupee. ;Liberated gentleman before his divorce ---------------------------------------------------------------- title for a suppressed poem: Dekoonig Woman with daughter --------------------------------------------------------------- sa, Campra, 22 Sept '05 -- 18 Elul -- A grey misty day, rather cold up her. AND THESE POEMS SURE NEED POLISHING =============================================================== ================================================================= THE FOLLOWING NOTES BELONG WITH DRAFT 4 OF =zev05 which I have not yet written. Draft 3 is full, so I can't tack them on there. --------------------------- There is a risk that Zenith may devolve into a cult, maybe gur_oriented. A cult is totalitarian, and may be facistic. ZIK at 30 seems to be arrogating the trappings that PVK assumed malgre lui in old age -- the opposite of PVK as a young man. If so, ZIK is pretending to a maquam he has not earned. And if so he is headed for a fall. Zenith is almost entirel SouPy. SouPy is circles, 'sharing' -- which apparently roils up a lot of mud -- the 'it is my job' (Das is mein Arbeit) attitude -- and wasing half the work_day in breaks. Zenith, like New Buffalo, can be much better than RealWorld -- if everyone is tring to give all they've got -- or it can be much worse than Realworld -- when you get a few neurotic types with psychic powers and no identifiable ethics trying to exploit the system. That is, to grab easy job and invoke a sort of class_ism and ethnic ”prjudice to manipulate and bully others into doing the hard work. Withou PVK, and until ZIK comes into his own, there is no need to continue with all these Islamic and pseudo_Islamic trappings. So Zenith should move toward the Lama model -- an umbrulla organization for all ona fie religous traditions -- on the model of Universal Worshiop, where 'Sufi' is only one of many parths. So Zenith '06 should have workshops in Buddhism, Zen, a Jewish/Islamic week, and also straight Islam. Also Christianity - - Samuel Gessler could do that. Maybe Hiindu too. Also a joint week with the Hotel Venezia crew and their gurul. A Jewish week could be expanded -- R. David Zeller loves Zenith, and gives all he's got -- but also he could be augmented with Emunah Witt, and with Leah Golomb if possble. We should try to bring back Feizy. She was among the best of the Senior Leaders. In 1999, her last year, she really went all_out. ZR tneds to see anyone who approaches his pinacle as a threat. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ==============================================================