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Wed Sep 15 19:13:09 2021
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:54:27 -0400
From: "Robyn Tran" <robyn_tran@wwwgryphon-inv.com>
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<!--As the fog cleared in her brain, Margaret realized she was still aliv=
e, laying face down in wet sand on a shoreline of some kind. How did she ge=
t here and where on Earth is ?here?? She pushed herself up off of the groun=
d onto her hands and knees, spitting the dirt and sand out of her mouth. Fr=
om there, she got up shakily and glanced around. Still wiping the sand off =
of her face, Margaret could barely make out her surroundings in the dark. M=
aybe off to her side was some debris that had washed ashore along with her.=
She stumbled towards the wooden object to her left, then collapsed down on=
to the beach.=20
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Thomas was walking along the shoreline, gathering mussels and putting them =
into his tin bucket. In the new light of the morning, he could see the sea =
had brought in many items after the storm the night before. He picked his w=
ay through what looked like the remains of a ship, searching for clues as t=
o what vessel had been lost at sea.=20
The body was crumpled up next to a large chunk of wood, possibly a mast. To=
ssing down his catch of the morning, Thomas ran over to the figure, concern=
ed for its welfare. Reaching the waterlogged individual, the fisherman gent=
ly touched the female. She stirred, then rolled over onto her back. Her lon=
g, wet, black hair was covered in kelp and sand. Her tattered garments appe=
ared to be those of a wealthy person. Thomas had found a survivor.=20
?Milady,? he said, gently nudging her again. ?Milady, please wake up.? She =
stirred, then opened her green eyes.=20
Seeing the young man standing over her, Margaret panicked. Was he a friend =
or a foe, she wondered. She tried to get up but fell back down. He reached =
out a hand to assist her, which she first looked at, then took. He helped h=
er sit up.=20
?Are you alright, Milady?? he asked. There was genuine concern on his face =
and in his voice. Margaret relaxed a little bit.=20
?I'm not sure,? she said, rubbing the soreness on her right arm.=20
Thomas had stooped down next to the woman. He reached out his hand to her, =
a smile on his face. ?My name is Thomas Porter. Welcome to the Island of Tr=
emble.?
Margaret reached out and took his hand. His handshake was firm, his hands c=
alloused. ?My name is Anne,? she said, using the name of her handmaiden. On=
e can never be too sure how the people on this remote island would react to=
the presence of an embattled monarch.=20
?Pleased to meet you, Anne,? Thomas said as he shook her hand. After releas=
ing it, he regarded the sorry state of her clothing. ?I think I should get =
you back to the Village and help you find some clean, dry clothes to wear a=
nd maybe some food to eat. How does that sound??
Margaret's stomach rumbled in answer. She looked down at her middle as if t=
o shush it. ?That would be lovely, Thomas.? She tried to stand up but tumbl=
ed back down to the ground. Thomas leaned forward, giving her some leverage=
She managed to stand up with his assistance.=20
?Do you think you can walk, Milady?? Thomas asked as he helped steady her. =
She leaned into him and managed to take a few steps.=20
?How far is it, Thomas?? she asked.=20
?Not far. Perhaps a few rods from here. The way is smooth and clear with fe=
w obstacles to overcome. We can stop to rest along the way if you need to.?
Margaret smiled. ?Thank you. I think I can manage with your assistance.?
Thomas and Margaret made their way up the shore to a road. Soon they reache=
d the small village Thomas lived in. He helped her to the village square, w=
here a bench was located near the town well. Margaret sat down on the woode=
n bench gratefully. Thomas looked at the survivor he had just rescued. ?I w=
ill go fetch the village physician, as well as to inquire about procuring s=
ome food and clothing for you. The sun is warm, you will dry off a bit and =
rest while I see what I can do for you. I suspect you are too tired to go a=
ny further at this point,? he said.=20
Margaret nodded. Thomas went to the well and drew some water from it. Takin=
g a cup that was kept near the well, he ladled out some water into it, then=
handed it to his companion. ?Here, you must be thirsty,? he said. Margaret=
took the cup gratefully and drank from it. The cool water felt good on her=
parched throat. ?Thank you, Thomas, you have been most kind.? The young ma=
n smiled, then turned to find some help for the woman.=20
Thomas found the physician in his home, completing his breakfast. After lea=
rning Thomas had found a shipwreck survivor on their shores, Dr. Grainger p=
ut down his tea and hurried to the town square.=20
While Margaret was waiting for Thomas to return, she picked the vegetation =
from her hair and attempted to wash the sand from her skin. It was everywhe=
re! She must have brought half the sea bed with her to this quaint little p=
lace. As she was shaking out her petticoats, the two approached her.=20
?Anne, this is Dr. Grainger, our town physician. Please allow him to inspec=
t you for wounds or injuries.? Thomas pointed towards the physician. Margar=
et smiled at the elderly man and reached out her hand. ?Pleased to meet you=
, Dr. Grainger. Thank you for agreeing to see me.?
The Dr walked over to the disheveled woman and squatted down next to the be=
nch she was sitting on. ?You may be more comfortable back in my office. Are=
you able to walk??
Margaret's strength was returning. She nodded, and the Dr helped her up. Th=
ey walked slowly to the Dr.'s office on the outskirts of the Square while T=
homas ran off to acquire some food and clothing.=20
?Thomas said he found you on the shore. What ship were you on and how did i=
t meet its end??
?That was to the point,? thought Margaret. Meeting the Dr.'s gaze, Margaret=
took a deep breath. ?I was on board the good ship Eternal when we were ove=
rcome by a storm. The last thing I remember is it splintering to pieces and=
being plunged into the cold, dark sea.?
?That's the King's ship,? Dr. Grainger reported. ?Why were you on the King'=
s ship??
?We were escaping an assassination attempt on the life of Princess Margaret=
The ship was pursued, but we lost the attackers in the night. Next thing =
we knew, the storm was upon us and the already damaged vessel was no match =
for the fury of the sea.?
?Do you know the fate of the Princess?? asked the physician kindly.=20
?I have no idea if anyone else from the Eternal survived,? she replied, loo=
king down onto the stone floor of the Dr.'s office.=20
?Well, this is tragic!? exclaimed the physician. ?We have to report this to=
His Majesty at once.?
Margaret looked at the doctor in surprise. ?Why?? she asked.=20
?The Island of Tremble has always been loyal to the Crown. It is our duty t=
o inform him that the ship sank and his daughter may be lost.?
?She isn't,? Margaret said hastily. ?She has been found.?
?How do you know? You told me you had no idea if anyone else from the Etern=
al survived.?
Margaret inhaled deeply. ?Because I am Princess Margaret, second daughter o=
f King Edward III.?
The Dr. bowed before his patient. ?Your Majesty,? he said reverently.=20
The princess reached down and took the man's hands. ?I am sorry for the dec=
eption. I didn't know if this place was friendly or a foe and I couldn't ri=
sk telling you my true identity until I knew for sure.?
?That is understandable, Your Majesty, since you had just survived an assas=
sination attempt only to be shipwrecked and tossed up in an unknown land. I=
would be cautious as well.=20
?In any case, we must send word to your Father that you are alive. He will =
send back any instructions once he hears your tale.=20
?While we wait, I will help you find a place to stay during your visit with=
us. Thomas should have found you some clothing by now, and perhaps some fo=
od as well. We shall get you settled in no time, your Majesty!?
?Thank you, Doctor. If you don't mind, I'd like to tell Thomas my real name=
myself. I feel horrible for having lied to him, even if it was for my safe=
ty.?
?Of course, Your Majesty,? replied the Dr.=20
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Thomas took the news of Her Majesty's identity rather well. He understood c=
ompletely why she didn't trust him at first, and why she gave him someone e=
lse's name. He did his best to help her in any way he could during her stay=
When the day finally came when Margaret was to return to the castle of he=
r father, Thomas gave her a wooden carving he had made out of parts from th=
e Eternal. It was an image of a small rabbit crouched on a log. Princess Ma=
rgaret flung her arms around the young man when he gave it to her and whisp=
ered ?thank you for your kindness. I shall always treasure this knowing you=
made it for me out of my destroyed ship.? The whole village stood at the h=
arbor and waved as their monarch, and a new friend, sailed out to sea.--->=
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amily (and a cat) that live in the UK who get a strange stranger that=
their uncle brought along with him. Hope you enjoy my story! </=
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Uncle Len was our favourite uncle.</s=
pan></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Not just mine, also my big brother's =
(Sam, although he likes to be called Blaze since he said that ?Sam' is a ba=
bish name) and probably my mum and dad's too.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">He was ever so kind, he brought prese=
nts every time he visited, that's why we wanted him to visit every single w=
eek, but we knew that would never happen since he lived up in Manchester wh=
ile we were stuck down in Devon.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">I mean, I couldn't complain because w=
e lived just down near the beach and we could just have a 25 minute drive d=
own to the beach.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Dad always kept an eye on Uncle Len s=
ince he was single, so Dad had to watch whenever Uncle Len and Mum were in =
the same room.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Uncle Len worked at a Lawyer bus<a st=
yle=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/6Pb4l2395A8q6s10b546dK93bj40Xhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47SQ5odnn6iWyy106IPslvJ/delineation-crudely">iness, Blaze (Sam) would often =
ask if ?he'd sued someone's butt off', but the answer was always the same.<=
/a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/6Pb4l2395A8q6s10b546dK93bj40Xhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47SQ5odnn6iWyy106IPslvJ/delineation-crudely">?I'm not A lawyer, I work among them. I keep track of how much =
money everybody is earning, how many lawyers buildings are open and what if=
the profit. </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
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since it will be inappropriate and I might get sent off to my room(you kno=
w, my mum is always sneaky and checks everything that I do, although she al=
ways denies it).</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
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ew off and hit the wall with a loud...THUD! </a></span></p>=20
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/6Pb4l2395A8q6s10b546dK93bj40Xhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47SQ5odnn6iWyy106IPslvJ/delineation-crudely">He was standing with a creepy man. The man was wearing a black-=
whooly hat and a black suit and black trigged trousers.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/6Pb4l2395A8q6s10b546dK93bj40Xhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47SQ5odnn6iWyy106IPslvJ/delineation-crudely">?What present do you have this time? I told you I wanted a PS5 =
last time!? </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/6Pb4l2395A8q6s10b546dK93bj40Xhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47SQ5odnn6iWyy106IPslvJ/delineation-crudely">?Sorry. No present this time,? smiled Uncle Len.</a></span></p>=
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/6Pb4l2395A8q6s10b546dK93bj40Xhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47SQ5odnn6iWyy106IPslvJ/delineation-crudely">We were all very confused.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/6Pb4l2395A8q6s10b546dK93bj40Xhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47SQ5odnn6iWyy106IPslvJ/delineation-crudely">?You see,? he began, ?I'm quitting the lawyer business. I need =
a better wage. I need something better. So when I was leaving last time I v=
isited, mind you, that was only 2 weeks ago, I saw a poster that a job need=
ed to be applied at the electricity plant. It's just outside of town. It ha=
s double the wage I would get as my last, so I'll be going off and signing =
up for this place while my friend here, Thomas, will be seeing how many peo=
ple have electric houses and what companies they are from. It's a 3-4 day j=
ob so I thought there's no better place for him to stay than at your house!=
You still have that extra bed, don't you??</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
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engine I knew from when I was a little baby. </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/6Pb4l2395A8q6s10b546dK93bj40Xhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47SQ5odnn6iWyy106IPslvJ/delineation-crudely">Mum was also speechless.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/6Pb4l2395A8q6s10b546dK93bj40Xhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47SQ5odnn6iWyy106IPslvJ/delineation-crudely">?Well! Welcome in!? </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/6Pb4l2395A8q6s10b546dK93bj40Xhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47SQ5odnn6iWyy106IPslvJ/delineation-crudely">Dad smiled and greeted the man in.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/6Pb4l2395A8q6s10b546dK93bj40Xhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47SQ5odnn6iWyy106IPslvJ/delineation-crudely">The man just stood there.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/6Pb4l2395A8q6s10b546dK93bj40Xhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47SQ5odnn6iWyy106IPslvJ/delineation-crudely">He stood there.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">I was pretty sure he had just died fr=
om a horrible disease when he said, ?well, we'd all better do our jobs now,=
?</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">His voice was like he worked as a min=
er for his whole life.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">I went upstairs and lay on my bed.</s=
pan></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Then I looked out of the window.</spa=
n></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">This man just walked past all of the =
houses and straight down the road.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">?Pretty suspicious, eh?? asked Blaze.=
</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">?Stop sneaking up on me like that!? I=
yelled.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">?Well, I bet he's a top secret person=
working to destroy the world,? Blaze answered.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">?Oh, yes. And maybe Mum is a Russian =
spy,? I muttered.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">?Mum's a Russian spy?? he asked as he=
jumped down the stairs (in one big jump, smacking into the wall again as h=
e landed) and ran up to Mum, ?what do you know about Russia??</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Blaze might be my big brother, but he=
acts like a 7-year old boy trying to be a detective after watching all of =
the James Bond movies in one night. </span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">My head was spinning.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">No, Blaze couldn't have been right, c=
ould he?</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Luckily, befor<a style=3D"color: #fff=
fff;" href=3D"http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">e I said it out loud and probably a man would com=
e into my bedroom and kidnap me or something, Mum called us for tea.</a></s=
pan></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">It has been quite a while now. The man still hadn't come back y=
et.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?Psst! Psst!?</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?Waa?? I asked yawning, ?I'm trying to fall asleep here,?</a></=
span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?Remember what I told you before? I was right. That man is evil=
?</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely"> ?Go away!? I yelled as I threw one of my pillows at him.<=
/a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">Bang! Smash! Wizz!</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">It hit the light, wich then fell down and smashed onto the floo=
r right next to my cat's tail, which sent the cat wheezing through the air,=
yowling like mad.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?I've got evidence,? smiled Blaze.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?What now?? I asked him tirely. </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?Look what I saw in that weird man's schedule-time something bo=
ok!?</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">He held out a book called: ?the planning book of the year?.</a>=
</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?Quit reading all his stuff!? I yelled out angrily.</a></span><=
/p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?SHH!? he hissed as he grabbed me by the shoulder and pulled me=
up.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">It really hurt.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?Ouch!? </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?LOOK!? </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">He pointed to Tuesday 7th March.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?There!?</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?Blow-Up meeting 12th avenue street 21:11.?</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?What in the world is a Blow-Up meeting?? I asked.</a></span></=
p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?I don't know. Let's investigate,? smiled Blaze.</a></span></p>=
=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?How??</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?Simple. We go to 12th avenue street and then spy on them.?</a>=
</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?It's 9 o'clock in 7 minutes!? I shouted out, forgetting to be =
quiet.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?It's just around the corner. Come on!?</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">Blaze grabbed me by the hand and pulled me out of the bed.</a><=
/span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?But we don't even know what this is! It might be just some mee=
ting about whenever or not to blow up a house!? I protested.</a></span></p>=
=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?Exactly! They want to blow up something important!? Blaze was =
confident now.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely"> He opened the window and went down.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">I went after him.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">He was right, it was just round the corner. We hid behind the l=
amppost, in a bush, luckily it wasn't too prickly.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">The -as Blaze called him- ?mystery man' was there. He was holdi=
ng something.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">We were listening.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?We're going to blow it up in half an hour. Everything ready, I=
suppose?? The mystery man asked.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?The bombs are in,? another man whispered back.</a></span></p>=
=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?Brilliant! The people in the electricity plant won't know what=
will await them!?</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?Huh! They're planning to blow up the electricity plant!? I gas=
ped, a bit too loudly.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?What was that?? one of the men asked.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/20f5b239t5z8jh610Q546eA93bv40khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7JBl1rs06e@s1vy/delineation-crudely">?I don't know but I think it was coming from</a> those bushes o=
ver there,? the mystery man answered as he walked towards the lamppost.</sp=
an></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">I didn't know what to do.</span></p>=
=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">We would be discovered in seconds.</s=
pan></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Blaze grabbed the man by the collar a=
nd threw him onto the floor.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">?Run!?</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">?Hey! Those kids are getting away!? s=
omebody yelled out.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">?To the electricity plant!? I yelled =
as I gasped for air.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">We ran for about half an hour before =
we got to the plant.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">I was o tired I just simply layed dow=
n on the floor.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">I was panting like a dog.</span></p>=
=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">We saw the bombs, they were all aroun=
d us.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">"What do we do?" I asked.</=
span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">"CUT THE WIRE."</span></p>=
=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">"how?" I asked.</span></p>=
=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Blaze took a pocket knife out of his =
pocket.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">"which one?" I asked.</span=
></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">"erm... I'll go with the red one=
.."</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">BOOM!</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">A gun fired at us.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">We did it! We cut the correct wire! A=
lthough the people were still trying to shoot us.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Just then the police arrived.</span><=
/p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">It seemed someone had gone outside to=
find out what all of this racket was, and when they saw they phoned the po=
lice.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">We reterened home with lots of hugs a=
nd kisses (except for Blaze, who didn't want any, but you know, that's brot=
hers for you!) and we lived happily ever after, well, until the mystery man=
was relised from prision, but that's another story.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">THE END.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">.....<em>and who are you, man of yest=
erday, myself, as per my adventures downtown, with a notepad in tow? the wr=
iter here transposes his notepad entries </em>live<em>, as it were, as=
he is a spontaneous idiot and balladmonger of just such a sort as would pu=
ll such stunts as this, all the while calling it </em>Art. <em>He=
re are the entries, as they are, scribbled. Here the writer will add that a=
s he, being a luddite, was logging onto his Reedsy page, and finding the Re=
edsy blog by way of a search engine, luddite that he is (backwards idiot? d=
on't you have your password saved? and you actually use a search engine?), =
the writer accidentally or by way of laziness only wrote Reeds, and then pr=
essed enter, and what came up was not the Reedsy blog he was looking for, o=
r searching for. He had to type-in the "y" too, obviously necessa=
ry, this "y" is. Reeds just gets you reeds links, links for reeds=
, which are well enough.</em></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><em>"Reeds-y." Remember.</e=
m></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><em>A perfect example, so the writer =
thought, as this was all going down, of the need, the necessity, for proofr=
eading, for re-writing, for editing, for all that stuff. Blast it, he then =
said to himself, and so enters here his notepad's entries, </em>live..=
..</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<h1><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><strong>Monda<a style=3D"color: #fff=
fff;" href=3D"http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">y, May 31st, 2021</a></strong></span></h1>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">I'm on the Goldline transfer bus, reading from the pages of Bau=
delaire's psychological biography, an interesting pick, reading the section=
in which the biographer mentions a letter Baudelaire sent to his mother, i=
n which, in a contrarian reference to the previous decade which he, the gre=
at French poet, spent extravagantly on bouts full of decadence and laziness=
, he writes to his mother that he had spent the last year (in atonement, as=
it were, specifically, as he put it, for the many years prior) "<em>l=
ess stupidly than the others.</em>"</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">As in, he had spent his time less stupidly than he had spent it=
during other times past.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<h2><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D=
"http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">Spent them less stupid than the others, really, Mum.</a></span=
></h2>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">And, due to a frightful amount of emotional egoity and a Samson=
-like poetic reference capability, Aye speake undear mye breathee to myesel=
f-</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"><em>"I declare to write an autobiography under just that n=
ame. Some use Shakespeare lines, I'll use one of Baudelaire's. L.A.'s splee=
n'd soddies."</em></a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<h2><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D=
"http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">LESS STUPIDLY THAN THE OTHERS</a></span></h2>=20
<h2><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D=
"http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">by J. Storbakken</a></span></h2>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">Passing the ramen restaraunts of Little Tokyo's First Street pr=
omenaude, glancing glances out the window and eyeing all the conversers and=
slurpers and smilers and smilees and feeling sentimental and very, highly =
poetic pangs of something close to guilt over my decision to use such a nam=
e for my autiobiography, but anyway, passing the restaurants there, I smile=
d out the window.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">I am reading about the great Baudelaire, about his love for the=
works and writings of Poe and DeQuincy, and here I am, merely an omnibusse=
d and oaken Bard, berating myself over my Hashish use.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">And now, off the bus, walking up First Street to Mariposa Cafe,=
the one by Mariachi Plaza and the community bookstore, passing the high sc=
hool on First Street, scribbling and scratching in my notepad as I stumble =
up First Street and walk along the wall which marks the soccer field, at th=
e moment, I think I'll stop and rest and have a little lean against the wal=
l for a quick sec'.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">I once wrote a little piece here, at this intersection, First S=
t. and Gabriel Garcia Marquez St., near the Pico Aliso Goldline Station and=
the local high school, the piece was about me standing here writing, yet t=
hat time I was standing at the crosswalk waiting for the light to turn, and=
there was a driver, a man, who's turn it was to go in the lane, but who wa=
s nonetheless stopped in the middle of the street looking back and forth fr=
om the street sign's name to my figure on the corner there, with his mouth =
open. Funny, really.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">Back, as I was walking down the sidewalk, I passed the high sch=
ool gym. I heard the squeaking of the basketball shoes from within, and was=
thrown, as I walked down the sidewalk, into a memory of my first year of c=
ollege, saying out-loud there, "I haven't heard that squeaky sound in =
a while."</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">My first year of college when I used to park up over the hill a=
nd walk by the farm with the sheep and cows and cotton trees hanging and by=
the ivy-logged roadsides and through the back entrance of the college in P=
omona, right by the high school, where I'd pass, on some days, the practici=
ng girl's volleyball team, whose shoes would be making the same noises, and=
there passing, though we were only a year, perhaps a bit more, apart in ag=
e, I would feel fatherly feelings of tender and manly rapport for them and =
with them, and strut my stuff on to my Nutrition class.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">Now, further up the sidewalk in Boyle Heights, I pass a lady ly=
ing on the sidewalk, dipping a chip into a plastic cup filled with somethin=
g like salsa, and the chip, she was dipping it violently, as if stabbing so=
mething in the something like salsa. Poor deranged soldier of dirty, sensel=
ess streethood. An animalistic dip, indeed. Steven King's appetizer. Shaded=
essences. <em>Am I an Essene? Can I help this woman, somehow?</em></a=
></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">On the 260 bus-line now, after a quick coffee grab at McDonald'=
s, down by Atlantic Blvd, and I just passed the CVS on the corner of Whitti=
er and Atlantic which used to be a movie theatre, the building it's occupyi=
ng. Same building was a movie theatre mother used to go to as a child.</a><=
/span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">I saw a man, as the bus drove up to the bus stop there on Whitt=
ier, wearing what I thought was a STAR WARS T-shirt, but what ended up bein=
g a MORTAL COMBAT T-shirt. The circular, red insignia. I laughed, grunted m=
ore like, and a few gently folks here on our gentle-riding bus stared at me=
And then I grunted again, helpless to the surfacing laughter I felt.</a><=
/span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent">How fragile life is, that, as I feel the strange and gentle int=
imation to catch a moment in time down on a piece of paper, I also, as I ca=
tch that intimation, see and feel the moment which the intimation had sough=
t to mirror slide away; it is so strange. Poetic fragments, indeed.</a></sp=
an></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/eb74F2395z8S6r10z546fk93bj40whbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47eQ5odnn5GO1k06Qy2Osv/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Reading about Joseph Campbell's expla=
nation of oneness, At-One-ness. He says the human being must take responsib=
ility for both his own wild freedom and his own discipline.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Today while riding the bus toward Lak=
ewood, I felt the afternoon sink in throughout the landscape out the window=
and into my own inner sense of comfort found throughout this time of the d=
ay every day, and I let that feeling really sink in, and well I was just so=
happy just to be alive, strolling along: busride-bound: notepad-bound.</sp=
an></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Then, that feeling, that feeling: the=
desire to write it down. And the sentimental experience then vanishes, and=
it leaves a canvas in its place, if you will: a room, in which to write do=
wn one's Newtonian and Proustonian and Louvrenian and idealistic fancies, s=
ciences, by-one-mores, and lookabouts, and keep and get them nice and organ=
ized; the bus driver is a writer, the writer is a writer, the rider is a ri=
der, and the guy in the back seat a-scribblin', he too, see.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<h1><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">fin-del-notepad,<em> for today<=
/em></span></h1>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f5C239h5SUr8611RP5470H93bQ40Hhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47bQ5odnn5Vty106eNsL@v/coldest-Percy">.....<em>and who are you, man of yesterday, myself, as per my a=
dventures downtown, with a notepad in tow? the writer here transposes his n=
otepad entries </em>live<em>, as it were, as he is a spontaneous idiot=
and balladmonger of just such a sort as would pull such stunts as this, al=
l the while calling it </em>Art. <em>Here are the entries, as the=
y are, scribbled. Here the writer will add that as he, being a luddite, was=
logging onto his Reedsy page, and finding the Reedsy blog by way of a sear=
ch engine, luddite that he is (backwards idiot? don't you have your passwor=
d saved? and you actually use a search engine?), the writer accidentally or=
by way of laziness only wrote Reeds, and then pressed enter, and what came=
up was not the Reedsy blog he was looking for, or searching for. He had to=
type-in the "y" too, obviously necessary, this "y" is.=
Reeds just gets you reeds links, links for reeds, which are well enough.</=
em></a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f5C239h5SUr8611RP5470H93bQ40Hhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47bQ5odnn5Vty106eNsL@v/coldest-Percy"><em>"Reeds-y." Remember.</em></a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f5C239h5SUr8611RP5470H93bQ40Hhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47bQ5odnn5Vty106eNsL@v/coldest-Percy"><em>A perfect example, so the writer thought, as this was all g=
oing down, of the need, the necessity, for proofreading, for re-writing, fo=
r editing, for all that stuff. Blast it, he then said to himself, and so en=
ters here his notepad's entries, </em>live.....</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f5C239h5SUr8611RP5470H93bQ40Hhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47bQ5odnn5Vty106eNsL@v/coldest-Percy"> </a></span></p>=20
<h1><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D=
"http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f5C239h5SUr8611RP5470H93bQ40Hhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47bQ5odnn5Vty106eNsL@v/coldest-Percy"><strong>Monday, May 31st, 2021</strong></a></span></h1>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f5C239h5SUr8611RP5470H93bQ40Hhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47bQ5odnn5Vty106eNsL@v/coldest-Percy"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f5C239h5SUr8611RP5470H93bQ40Hhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47bQ5odnn5Vty106eNsL@v/coldest-Percy">I'm on the Goldline transfer bus, reading from the pages of Bau=
delaire's psychological biography, an interesting pick, reading the section=
in which the biographer mentions a letter Baudelaire sent to his mother, i=
n which, in a contrarian reference to the previous decade which he, the gre=
at French poet, spent extravagantly on bouts full of decadence and laziness=
, he writes to his mother that he had spent the last year (in atonement, as=
it were, specifically, as he put it, for the many years prior) "<em>l=
ess stupidly than the others.</em>"</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f5C239h5SUr8611RP5470H93bQ40Hhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47bQ5odnn5Vty106eNsL@v/coldest-Percy"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f5C239h5SUr8611RP5470H93bQ40Hhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47bQ5odnn5Vty106eNsL@v/coldest-Percy">As in, he had spent his time less stupidly than he had spent it=
during other times past.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f5C239h5SUr8611RP5470H93bQ40Hhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47bQ5odnn5Vty106eNsL@v/coldest-Percy"> </a></span></p>=20
<h2><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D=
"http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f5C239h5SUr8611RP5470H93bQ40Hhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47bQ5odnn5Vty106eNsL@v/coldest-Percy">Spent them less stupid than the others, really, Mum.</a></span=
></h2>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">And, due to a frightful amount of emo=
tional egoity and a Samson-like poetic reference capability, Aye speake und=
ear mye breathee to myeself-</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><em>"I declare to write an autob=
iography under just that name. Some use Shakespeare lines, I'll use one of =
Baudelaire's. L.A.'s spleen'd soddies."</em></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<h2><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">LESS STUPIDLY THAN THE OTHERS</span>=
</h2>=20
<h2><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">by J. St<a style=3D"color: #ffffff;"=
href=3D"http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f6q2m39_5KA86O10M5471N93bH40Ehbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47jQ5odnn7c1jWT0u6F@syUv/balancers-citadels">orbakken</a></span></h2>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f6q2m39_5KA86O10M5471N93bH40Ehbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47jQ5odnn7c1jWT0u6F@syUv/balancers-citadels"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f6q2m39_5KA86O10M5471N93bH40Ehbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47jQ5odnn7c1jWT0u6F@syUv/balancers-citadels">Passing the ramen restaraunts of Little Tokyo's First Street pr=
omenaude, glancing glances out the window and eyeing all the conversers and=
slurpers and smilers and smilees and feeling sentimental and very, highly =
poetic pangs of something close to guilt over my decision to use such a nam=
e for my autiobiography, but anyway, passing the restaurants there, I smile=
d out the window.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f6q2m39_5KA86O10M5471N93bH40Ehbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47jQ5odnn7c1jWT0u6F@syUv/balancers-citadels">I am reading about the great Baudelaire, about his love for the=
works and writings of Poe and DeQuincy, and here I am, merely an omnibusse=
d and oaken Bard, berating myself over my Hashish use.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/11f6q2m39_5KA86O10M5471N93bH40Ehbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47jQ5odnn7c1jWT0u6F@syUv/balancers-citadels">And now, off the bus, walking up First Street to Mariposa Cafe,=
the one by Mariachi Plaza and the community bookstore, passing the high sc=
hool on First Street, scribbling and scratching in my notepad as I stumble =
up First Street and walk along the wall which marks the soccer field, at t<=
/a>he moment, I think I'll stop and rest and have a little lean against the=
wall for a quick sec'.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">I once wrote a little piece here, at =
this intersection, First St. and Gabriel Garcia Marquez St., near the Pico =
Aliso Goldline Station and the local high school, the piece was about me st=
anding here writing, yet that time I was standing at the crosswalk waiting =
for the light to turn, and there was a driver, a man, who's turn it was to =
go in the lane, but who was nonetheless stopped in the middle of the street=
looking back and forth from the street sign's name to my figure on the cor=
ner there, with his mouth open. Funny, really.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Back, as I was walking down the sidew=
alk, I passed the high school gym. I heard the squeaking of the basketball =
shoes from within, and was thrown, <a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/attribution-disagreed/7384J2395Pmm8612Cw5s472P93bt40ohbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7m1rz0pp5Hksvl">as I walked down the sidewalk, into a memory of my first year of c=
ollege, saying out-loud there, "I haven't heard that squeaky sound in =
a while."</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/attribution-disagreed/7384J2395Pmm8612Cw5s472P93bt40ohbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7m1rz0pp5Hksvl"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/attribution-disagreed/7384J2395Pmm8612Cw5s472P93bt40ohbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7m1rz0pp5Hksvl">My first year of college when I used to park up over the hill a=
nd walk by the farm with the sheep and cows and cotton trees hanging and by=
the ivy-logged roadsides and through the back entrance of the college in P=
omona, right by the high school, where I'd pass, on some days, the practici=
ng girl's volleyball team, whose shoes would be making the same noises, and=
there passing, though we were only a year, perhaps a bit more, apart in ag=
e, I would feel fatherly feelings of tender and manly rapport for them and =
with them, and strut my stuff on to my Nutrition class.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/attribution-disagreed/7384J2395Pmm8612Cw5s472P93bt40ohbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7m1rz0pp5Hksvl"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/attribution-disagreed/7384J2395Pmm8612Cw5s472P93bt40ohbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47nQ5odnn7m1rz0pp5Hksvl">Now, further up the sidewalk in Boyle Heights, I p</a>ass a lad=
y lying on the sidewalk, dipping a chip into a plastic cup filled with some=
thing like salsa, and the chip, she was dipping it violently, as if stabbin=
g something in the something like salsa. Poor deranged soldier of dirty, se=
nseless streethood. An animalistic dip, indeed. Steven King's appetizer. Sh=
aded essences. <em>Am I an Essene? Can I help this woman, somehow?</em=
></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">On the 260 bus-line now, after a quic=
k coffee grab at McDonald's, down by Atlantic Blvd, and I just passed the C=
VS on the corner of Whittier and Atlantic which used to be a movie theatre,=
the building it's occupying. Same building was a movie theatre mother used=
to go to as a child.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">I saw a man, as the bus drove up to t=
he bus stop there on Whittier, wearing what I thought was a STAR WARS T-shi=
rt, but what ended up <a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/a075M2_395eh86I11e547W3Q93bA40lhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47wQ5odnn6FV1j0n6qjpsvW/Fenwick-imprudent">bein=
g a MORTAL COMBAT T-shirt. The circular, red insignia. I laughed, grunted m=
ore like, and a few gently folks here on our gentle-riding bus stared at me=
And then I grunted again, helpless to the surfacing laughter I felt.</a><=
/span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/a075M2_395eh86I11e547W3Q93bA40lhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47wQ5odnn6FV1j0n6qjpsvW/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/a075M2_395eh86I11e547W3Q93bA40lhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47wQ5odnn6FV1j0n6qjpsvW/Fenwick-imprudent">How fragile life is, that, as I feel the strange and gentle int=
imation to catch a moment in time down on a piece of paper, I also, as I ca=
tch that intimation, see and feel the moment which the intimation had sough=
t to mirror slide away; it is so strange. Poetic fragments, indeed.</a></sp=
an></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/a075M2_395eh86I11e547W3Q93bA40lhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47wQ5odnn6FV1j0n6qjpsvW/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/a075M2_395eh86I11e547W3Q93bA40lhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47wQ5odnn6FV1j0n6qjpsvW/Fenwick-imprudent">Reading about Joseph Campbell's explanation of oneness, At-One-=
ness. He says the human being must take responsibility for both his own wil=
d freedom and his own discipline.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/a075M2_395eh86I11e547W3Q93bA40lhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47wQ5odnn6FV1j0n6qjpsvW/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/a075M2_395eh86I11e547W3Q93bA40lhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47wQ5odnn6FV1j0n6qjpsvW/Fenwick-imprudent">Today while riding the bus toward Lakewood, I felt the afternoo=
n sink in throughout the landscape out the window and into my own inner sen=
se of comfort found throughout this time of the day every day, and I let th=
at feeling really sink in, and well I was just so happy just to be alive, s=
trolling along: busride-bound: notepad-bound.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/a075M2_395eh86I11e547W3Q93bA40lhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47wQ5odnn6FV1j0n6qjpsvW/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/a075M2_395eh86I11e547W3Q93bA40lhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47wQ5odnn6FV1j0n6qjpsvW/Fenwick-imprudent">Then, that feeling, that feeling: the desire to write it down. =
And the sentimental experience then vanishes, and it leaves a canvas in its=
place, if you will: a room, in which to write down one's Newtonian and Pro=
ustonian and Louvrenian and idealistic fancies, sciences, by-one-mores, and=
lookabouts, and keep and get them nice and organized; the bus driver is a =
writer, the writer is a writer, the rider is a rider, and the guy in the ba=
ck seat a-scribblin', he too, see.</a></span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"=
http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/a075M2_395eh86I11e547W3Q93bA40lhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47wQ5odnn6FV1j0n6qjpsvW/Fenwick-imprudent"> </a></span></p>=20
<h1><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;"><a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D=
"http://www.wwwgryphon-inv.com/a075M2_395eh86I11e547W3Q93bA40lhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47wQ5odnn6FV1j0n6qjpsvW/Fenwick-imprudent">fin-del-notepad,<em> for today</em></a></span></h1>=20
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