"I don't eat tomatoes I never did I hate trains and they never run on time anyway and anywhere ten people are gathered they're not gathered in my name you can be sure of that and there's no fool like an old fool but chimneys gather no moss and a rocking horse is as good as an elephant to a blind man on a galloping horse or is that in a galloping hearse I really do forget but NO MATTER for fourteen siblings in one big cradle are all I've ever lost and today's posts are piled to drive into the quaggy past on which impermanent palaces balance and if God were an angel I'd be the head of a pin and all matter is only that - things left over from Day One and never corrected : clods clover marble iron rat bull bird and all the rest YOU can have the lot of them and I bet - sexually speaking - that Adam never made an Eve that wouldn't make an Adam - and there's Theology for you buster but if the word GOD is to have any use it must include everything and so I feel we all must have in our bones at least a bit of some kind of Pantheism and a reverence for all of creation - for if any one part of it THEN the whole and the only thing we can do is to keep on finding out as much carefully controlled common sense about the world as we can NO MORE OR NO LESS but not for profit or gain GOOD GOD not for profit or gain for therein lies the Devil and DID YOU KNOW that 'Then is Now and the star you steer by is gone - its tremulous thread spun in the hurricane as spider floss on my cheek and a light from the zenith spun when the slowworm lay in her lap fifty years back' and wheat lies in excrement while seeds thrive in the corruption of their flowers and the poet Aneurin counted men slain by Northumbria's conquerors several hundred years ago as if it were a simple yet doleful task and the moon shone over the corpses for nothing while he tallied and the restlessness of the imagination is such that it lies with one to dream of another ! and it was William James who said:
'Can we realize for an instant what a cross-section of all existence at a definite point in time would be? While I talk and the flies buzz, a seagull catches a fish at the mouth of the Amazon, a tree falls in the Adirondack wilderness, a man sneezes in Germany, a horse dies in Tartary, and twins are born in France.'
and he said it all for good luck and not much more but for every set of ears which hears ten million more hear nothing of it and waltz away in their own drunken haze - stupidity flounders no parson and idiocy never really sunk a ship but the greatest stars in he Heavens are the ones not yet charted and the telescope to show us PARADISE and all its minions has not yet been made but the man who grinds the glass to level all the Heaven's refracted and grandiloquent angles will surely bring us God in a jar to show as proof of where he has been and FINALLY my brothers (please listen up) :
'Look how clouds dance,
under the wind's wing,
and leaves delight
in transcience.'
and I have NO MORE to say."
'Look how clouds dance,
under the wind's wing,
and leaves delight
in transcience.'
and I have NO MORE to say."
