WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Welcome to the New American Digest: 2003-2020
Gerard Van der Leun
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
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
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.
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
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
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They certainly are an unattractive bunch. Why is that do you suppose? I’ll say this for them- they’re all very impressed with their own intelligence. Especially that kid in the striped shirt. He needs his goofy head stuffed in a toilet bowl.
JWM
Are you suggesting that his head will work as a toilet brush?
You are right.
Vacuous, vain, pompous fakers, PP (Pseudo People). Excellent sample of the D-Generation of the nation.
Dumber than disconnected fire hydrants dog-whistling, “Pee on me.”
I suspect these were graduate students, given their well-considered comments.
Toilet Brush is a good example of the first wave of fodder.
Why don’t you self-important nozzles gather 6 or 30 of your like-minded rimming partners and create your own commune? “Workers own the means of production” philosophy and “equal say in all decisions” with no “white supremacy” in sight. After all, since your view of the future takes in to account the lessons of the past NOT AT ALL, you should be free to form a much better, more fair, and more efficient social network than all the oppressive fascists that came before.
Start on the first of the month and we’ll check back on your success, freedom from discordance, social harmony, and absence of jealousy, anger, and envy in about 3 months.
Deal?
I saw over at Stiltons’ that President Trump picked this year’s Miss America. Man was that ever an out of left field choice.
But leave it to The Boss, eh?
Pathological liars are dangerous, very dangerous.
There is a weird sort of sense to the vid, they are showing (without realizing it) that they are predisposed to oppose ANY candidate Trump nominates. He could name Hillary Clinton (perish the thought) and they would protest that.
How does the interviewer not say, “Have you even read the Constitution?”
An old traveling salesman joke tells of a guy having a flat tire on a country road at sundown and finding he had no tire tool. Remembering the farm house back down the road, he sets out walking to borrow a tire tool. As he walks, he imagines all the things that are going to go wrong when he gets to the house: the dogs are going to come after him, he might get shot for approaching the house after dark, the farmer will be so angry for being awakened he won’t loan him the tool. He finally arrives at the farm house, and he’s made himself so angry at the farmer he picks up a rock and throws it through the upstairs bedroom window. Looking out the window, the farmer sees a man standing in the road, shaking his fist at him, and screaming: “Just keep your damned tire tool!”.
Prejudice is a self-inflicted wound.
I want to see the video when he tells these pretentious propagandized geniuses what ignorant tools they are. I want to see an NHL-style reality check into the boards that launches them up into the cheap seats. Shame and humiliation is what they need, badly.
And keep in mind that these are selected from the ones that knew what a “Supreme Court Justice” is!
Remember when ignorance was no excuse?
Mark Dice has a number of videos that come under the “sadly hilarious” label. It’s hard to believe that so many people are so uninformed and ignorant, but it’s true!
Saddest of all, it’s the people who think they’re educated that are the worst offenders.
Watering Crops With Brawndo Energy Drink:
https://youtu.be/hRn5N4q9kYE
Left wing pinko marxist commie trash. Pulled that out of the way back machine.
I was going to write that these are the people who will someday wield authority in our government and institutions but that would be to ignore the fact that people with very similar educations and outlooks and certainly no more intelligent or capable as these have been running the government and many major institutions for at least a generation.