consciousness is simply hubris.
More discursively,
it is just the addled, ill and composite illusion
of the brain's trillions of connections
that they form one whole - and unique - self.
So human consciousness resists
its own invented sense of reason
in a desperate attempt
to prove unto itself that it actually exists.
Dingo the Dissident
Sunday, 30 April 2017
Saturday, 29 April 2017
We wear shoes
to protect our soft feet
and keep them soft.
We wear socks
to protect our feet from our shoes:
a cultural solution
to anti-evolution.
and keep them soft.
We wear socks
to protect our feet from our shoes:
a cultural solution
to anti-evolution.
Friday, 28 April 2017
Thursday, 27 April 2017
My kind and loyal readers
seem to be mostly in the USA.
There are none in Ireland
from which slurry-green isle
I am an exultant exile.
Дякую !
There are none in Ireland
from which slurry-green isle
I am an exultant exile.
Дякую !
谢谢
Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Tuesday, 25 April 2017
Monday, 24 April 2017
How stupid the names and two dates.
How stupid the tombstones.
How lovely the rot
and the worms
and the bones.
How lovely the rot
and the worms
and the bones.
Sunday, 23 April 2017
The wonderful thing about paintings
is that they are wordless
and have no beginning or end
except for the changeable
oft-inappropriate frame,
and are not static, but phatic,
and, though fading and flaking,
are as timeless as graveyards.
Paintings don't run out of words.
and have no beginning or end
except for the changeable
oft-inappropriate frame,
and are not static, but phatic,
and, though fading and flaking,
are as timeless as graveyards.
Paintings don't run out of words.
Saturday, 22 April 2017
Friday, 21 April 2017
The beginning and the end of a poem.
Words are the flesh and the bones of thoughts,
and life for us humans is a holocaust of words.
and life for us humans is a holocaust of words.
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
Monday, 17 April 2017
My problem with 'democracy';
is that it is an expensive and easily-corrupted method
of giving The Vote to far worse people than mere litter-louts,
tax-fraudsters and sugar-refiners.
The most sensible solution for Representative Government
would be parliamentarians selected by lot.
It would cost almost nothing,
there would be no crap about The Will of The People,
and the resulting random selection would not be worse
than what we have got. Parties could then be abolished, too. What bliss ! Perhaps one or two dogs could be co-opted into parliament
for occasional stroking and reality-check.
of giving The Vote to far worse people than mere litter-louts,
tax-fraudsters and sugar-refiners.
The most sensible solution for Representative Government
would be parliamentarians selected by lot.
It would cost almost nothing,
there would be no crap about The Will of The People,
and the resulting random selection would not be worse
than what we have got. Parties could then be abolished, too. What bliss ! Perhaps one or two dogs could be co-opted into parliament
for occasional stroking and reality-check.
Sunday, 16 April 2017
Saturday, 15 April 2017
All we need to know about the expansionism
of European 'Christians'
is contained in this talentless but revealing
(if not revelling) hymn:
The Son of God goes forth to war
A kingly crown to gain:
His blood-red banner streams afar;
Who follows in His train ?
Who best can drink His cup of woe,
Triumphant over pain,
Who patient bears His Cross below
He follows in His train.
is contained in this talentless but revealing
(if not revelling) hymn:
The Son of God goes forth to war
A kingly crown to gain:
His blood-red banner streams afar;
Who follows in His train ?
Who best can drink His cup of woe,
Triumphant over pain,
Who patient bears His Cross below
He follows in His train.
Friday, 14 April 2017
"He saved others,
but himself he cannot save!"
Precisely.
Because he knew the human self
is worth no more, no less,
than water in a wave ?
Deeply countercultural
and not without defect
he was like the best of us,
I guess, in that respect.
Precisely.
Because he knew the human self
is worth no more, no less,
than water in a wave ?
Deeply countercultural
and not without defect
he was like the best of us,
I guess, in that respect.
Thursday, 13 April 2017
In my Next Incarnation
I fancy being an Emperor-
Tamarin
- presumably so-named because it vaguely resembles
an Emperor of China...
I love its ears.
I love its ears.
I think I might be an animal-ears fetishist.
Wednesday, 12 April 2017
Some lovely lines
from John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany:
"Of course, there is no heart, however serious, that finds the death of culture entirely lacking in entertainment."
"Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country."
"She must have thought it a pity that some poor fools had to waste their lives writing in order for us to have sufficient reading material."
"Of course, there is no heart, however serious, that finds the death of culture entirely lacking in entertainment."
"Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country."
"She must have thought it a pity that some poor fools had to waste their lives writing in order for us to have sufficient reading material."
Tuesday, 11 April 2017
Although Politics is not like Bridge nor even Poker,
the "Far Right"
unlike the "Far Left"
almost always
"declare their hand".
unlike the "Far Left"
almost always
"declare their hand".
Monday, 10 April 2017
Sunday, 9 April 2017
This morning I heard a cuckoo
for the first time this spring.
Tomorrow the swifts and swallows will arrive.
Or maybe the day after.
Tomorrow the swifts and swallows will arrive.
Or maybe the day after.
There's rarely an empty moment
that someone does not fill
with hypocrisy - or worse.
(is the Big H the greatest curse ?)
with hypocrisy - or worse.
(is the Big H the greatest curse ?)
Saturday, 8 April 2017
Friday, 7 April 2017
Thursday, 6 April 2017
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
This Incredible Spring
the flowers in bloom simultaneously
here in south-west France include:
violets, primroses, periwinkles (major and minor),
cowslips, lesser celandines, ladies-smocks,
poppies, lilac, wisteria,
judas-tree, iris, toothwort,
tormentil, scabious, service-tree,
lungwort, larkspurs, scillas,
grape-hyacinths, wood-anemones,
quinces, apples, plums and cherries,
devil's milk or greater celandine,
chionodoxas, magnolias, japonicas (chaenomeles)...
here in south-west France include:
violets, primroses, periwinkles (major and minor),
cowslips, lesser celandines, ladies-smocks,
poppies, lilac, wisteria,
judas-tree, iris, toothwort,
tormentil, scabious, service-tree,
lungwort, larkspurs, scillas,
grape-hyacinths, wood-anemones,
quinces, apples, plums and cherries,
devil's milk or greater celandine,
chionodoxas, magnolias, japonicas (chaenomeles)...
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Cosmetic labels.
There is, of course,
no difference between
an informant and an informer,
whatever you are told,
however you are sold.
no difference between
an informant and an informer,
whatever you are told,
however you are sold.
Monday, 3 April 2017
Sunday, 2 April 2017
Saturday, 1 April 2017
Perennial Fool.
No mammal is weaker than the human,
hence technology.
Whereas all other predators prey upon
the very young, or very old, or sick: the weak,
the modern human prides himself
on preying on the strong -
especially impressive males. Man is a freak.
hence technology.
Whereas all other predators prey upon
the very young, or very old, or sick: the weak,
the modern human prides himself
on preying on the strong -
especially impressive males. Man is a freak.
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