[5558] in Central_America
New quotes for Sun Aug 14
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Sun Aug 14 02:42:14 1994
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 1994 02:41:47 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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brlewis (Bruce R. Lewis):
I'll be out of town at a family reunion and won't be back until Monday,
Aug 22. I'll leave a phone number with tjm for emergencies.
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mallen (Michael Stupid Allen):
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mwhitson (Michael Whitson):
Evelyn, a modified dog
Viewed the quivering fringe of a special doily
Draped across the piano, with some surprise
In the darkened room
Where the chairs dismayed
And the horrible curtains
Muffled the rain
She could hardly believe her eyes
A curious breeze
A garlic breath
Which sounded like a snore
Somewhere near the Steinway (or even from within)
Had caused the doily fringe to waft & tremble in the gloom
Evelyn, a dog, having undergone
Further modification
Pondered the significance of short-person behavior
In pedal-depressed panchromatic resonance
And other highly ambient domains...
"Arf," she said
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nosaj (Jason M Sachs):
MAGISCHES THEATER
EINTRITT NICHT FUER JEDERMANN
-- NICHT FUER JEDERMANN
* * * *
Commodore is dead. Long live Commodore.
1954-1994
* * * *
...it upsets the fondest illusion of the human mind,
which is that in the course of time everything may be
made better and better. For it is the general opinion
that were this not possible, the life of man would lack
all meaning and incentive. The only alternative to a life
of constant progress is felt to be a mere existence,
static and dead, so joyless and inane that one might
as well commit suicide. The very notion of this "only
alternative" shows how firmly the mind is bound in
a dualistic pattern, how hard it is to think in any other
terms than good or bad, or a muddy mixture of the two.
Yet Zen is a liberation from this pattern, and its
apparently dismal starting point is to understand the
absurdity of choosing, of the whole feeling that life may
be significantly improved by a constant selection of the
"good". One must start by "getting the feel" of relativity
and by knowing that life is not a situation from which
there is anything to be grasped or gained---as if it were
something which one approaches from outside, like a pie
or a barrel of beer. To succeed is always to fail, in
the sense that the more one succeeds in anything, the
greater is the need to go on succeeding. To eat is to
survive to be hungry.
--- Alan Watts,
"The Way of Zen"
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i'll be having dismal amounts of fun at home for the
next two weeks (64 sunset place, middletown nj 07748),
and then i get to go back to this joyous place.
goodbye, maine. it was a nice summer, for once.
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whchen (William H Chen):
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