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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.
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
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
Gerard Van der Leun
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I designed a home for the client of a contractor and the contractor owes me $7000. and hasn’t paid me for more than 3 months. I called the contractor last week and was told the client is “ghosting” them and they can’t pay me til the client pays them. Apparently ghosting means refusing to believe someone or something exists. They don’t answer the phone or emails or texts and don’t answer the door when the bell is rung. I wonder if they would come out and grab the garden hose if they saw a 5 gallon bucket of diesel billowing black smoke outside their front door?
I ‘spect that would fetch ’em.
After thinking about it a bit and decided wasting one of my buckets is not wise, besides I’d have to drive 1000 miles to the home in southwest Florida. I can’t put a lien on the owners property because again, 1000 miles, and I have a real problem getting to close to the tiger. So I hired a long term associate to do the energy calcs on the home and then told him that I will pay him an extra $100 to file a lien against property owner now that he is a subcontractor on the project. Done. (2 weeks ago) Now, the ball is in the owners court because basically the property is froze. Nothing can be done. The land is off limits til the lien is satisfied. It takes the county about 10 days to render a certified notice to the property owner about the lien. I’m expecting a call from the vanished property owner later this week. Of course I’ll have my associate vanquish the lien, about 10 days AFTER I have cashed the check.
I really, REALLY hate getting nasty with people and really, REALLY wish people would act like human beings toward each other.
Ghost,
I am curious about the validity of a third party lien if the first party did not sign a contract with the third party (you). I am not unsympathetic, simply curious. Possibly legally different state to state. I am considering some contracting to be done around my AO, just wondering what my liability is if the contractor does not pay his contractors. Any insight?