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Skriven 2008-01-31 19:18:24 av JOHNJWILSON
     Kommentar till en text av BOB KLAHN
Ärende: Pro-Choice Pro-Epanding C
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-> BK>>>> Which is the shallowest answer you can give.
-> 
->  J> Here is where you are completely dead ass wrong.
-> 
->  J> I can give you far shallower answers by the dozen.
-> 
->  Damn! You got me on that one.
-> 
->  J> What we need is a little more recognition that neither of us
->  J> knows what the hell we are talking about.
-> 
->  So you give me the answer below. I know what I am talking about,
->  mainly because I know just how uncertain so much of it is.

It pleasant to know that disagreement and argument

is not quarreling and insults...:-)

> 
->  J> Unless _you_ wish to proclaim divinity.
-> 
->  Didn't you grok that part?

:-)

-> 
->  J> (I'm not quite there yet, m'self.)
-> 
->  J> NOW FOR THE ANSWER:
-> 
->  J> The recognition that what this argument needs to do is to
->  J> turn it's
->  J>  attention to is the fact that in this echo there is a
->  J>  deplorable
->  J> lack of off hand doggerel.
-> 
->  Some times we have too much doggerel on hand.

surely you jest! There is a vast supply shortage...

We are going to have to import some from China!

(Gung hey fat choy...
We put lead on your child's toy...)


-> 
->  J> Ahem
-> 
->  J> Death and life, life and death,The subject...but first...
->  ...

-> 
->  ...
->  J> Far more important (!) is understanding that
->  J> your life can only be understood backwards.
-> 
->  You and Merlin.

I like the comparison :-) 
-> 
->  J> I started at about the age of three.
-> 
->  Most of human gestation is nine months, sometimes 10, but three
->  years? Oh, I did say "human"... are you trying to tell us
->  something?

I was just trying to determine the start of individual consciousness...


-> 
->  ...
->  J> When a man has pity on all living creatures,
->  J>  only then is he noble.(-Buddah)
-> 
->  J> Pity. Sorrow. Not sympathy. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
-> 
->  Pity? Why? Do they live less of a life than we do? (Klahn's
->  challenge to Buddah's assertion.)

I've been thinking about that. More Hmmmm...
-> 
->  J> Now to the poem!
->  ...
->  J> Hence all my PRIOR poems were shit. Did I have to point that
->  J> out?
-> 
->  Redundant.
-> 
->  J> Do you have to say "Hell Yes!" Out loud?
-> 
->  What? Did I say that outloud?
-> 
->  J> To my poem! Of extreme worth...
-> 
->  ...
-> 
->  J> The poem: life and death
->  ...
-> 
->  J> Ahem...to the Poem!
-> 
->  zzzzzzzzzzzzz... huh... what... oh, you're ready... Ok.
-> 
->  ...
-> 
->  J> Is there ANY truth to: in vino veritas? How would I know?
->  J> I'm drunk! :-)
-> 
->    Tagline alert! Tagline alert! Tagline alert! Tagline alert!
-> 
->  J> Poetry next - under the heading "Next"
-> 
->  zzzzzzzzzzzzzz... huh... sorry... hit the snooze button...
-> 
->  J> Thought I'd give fair warning...
-> 
->  J> Happy wine supply evening!
-> 
->  J> C h e e r s !
-> 
->  After all that? No poem?

Later. I ran out of wine :-)
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