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Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
For the disrobed faceless forms of no position
Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts
All down in taken-for-granted situations
Tolling for the deaf an’ blind, tolling for the mute
Tolling for the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute
For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an’ cheated by pursuit
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An’ the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An’ for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
— Bob Dylan
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.
The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel,
formerly used to kill men, but here
In the sense of a symbol. The sword: that is: the storms
and counter-storms of general destruction; killing
of men,
Destruction of all goods and materials; massacre, more or
less intentional, of children and women;
Destruction poured down from wings, the air made accomplice,
the innocent air
Perverted into assassin and poisoner.
The sword: that is: treachery and cowardice, incredible
baseness, incredible courage, loyalties, insanities.
The sword: weeping and despair, mass-enslavement,
mass-torture, frustration of all hopes
That starred man’s forehead. Tyranny for freedom, horror for
happiness, famine for bread, carrion for children.
Reason will not decide at last, the sword will decide.
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
Gerard Van der Leun
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I was a trained Small Arms Repairman for the USMC so this stuff it’s right up my alley. Thanks for sharing.
What was most interesting, considering the Alec Baldwin situation, was at the end of this video where the gentleman from the prop weapon company states that “you never use a real, live fire weapon in a movie”. Combined with what is coming out every day concerning the movie set armorer and her lack of professionalism/knowledge/discipline it would seem inevitable she ends up being charged with something along the lines of involuntary manslaughter. While Baldwin will probably be civilly sued for millions, and would be (key words) smart to settle out of court. My 2 cents.
That whole Baldwin thing is so ridiculously ridiculous that I’m almost committed to the notion that it was some sort of strange fate that could compel that piece of shit into the ridiculous situation he is now in. Irony on steroids injected with nitro. His trigger finger killed someone and nothing else matters.
That was very interesting.
Taken down/not available.
Works for me. Don’t youy see it?
“The government lets us have … because the movie industry.”
Curious. Baldwin was supposedly setting up for a shot at the camera, but he cocked and triggered a shot that missed the camera (camera protection, actually) and hit the woman who had been grieving him about the crappy set safety. “Just an accident”. If you believe that, I can get you an option on a bridge in New York, real cheap. His actions were not necessary for the photography setup. He looked upset. What do you expect from an “actor”? Didn’t hurt the equipment, but center punched the uppity broad. “Accident”, my rosey red______.
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