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After scanning its face again and again,
I began to scale it, picking my holds
With intense caution. About half-way
To the top, I was suddenly brought to
A dead stop, with arms outspread
Clinging close to the face of the rock
Unable to move hand or foot
Either up or down. My doom
Appeared fixed. I MUST fall.
There would be a moment of
Bewilderment, and then,
A lifeless rumble down the cliff
To the glacier below.
My mind seemed to fill with a
Stifling smoke. This terrible eclipse
Lasted only a moment, when life blazed
Forth again with preternatural clearness.
I seemed suddenly to become possessed
Of a new sense. My trembling muscles
Became firm again, every rift and flaw in
The rock was seen as through a microscope,
My limbs moved with a positiveness and precision
With which I seemed to have
Nothing at all to do.
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
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i think hoax
I loved that BBC flying penguins bit! My late wife and I loved penguins.
We had reasons.
First time I heard that song was when I first saw this film, Audie Murphy’s story To Hell and Back . . . : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1J8E9dnd5g
Can someone kindly explain what the hell this is? It cannot be real, but where’s the tell? Anyone….?
Never mind. Wiki is my friend. (Did not catch that was Python’s Terry Jones.)
Forgot to say that the cruel irony is that Audie Murphy died in a plane crash.
Auntie – …and poor old Patton died in a freak car crash. How mortifying, if you’ll excuse the expression.
April fools day prank from 2008 according to wiki. If penguins were migrating in flocks of hundreds or thousands from the antarctic to the Amazon every year I feel certain someone would have noticed long ago.
Neat to see Terry Jones at the center of this. Also fitting. Sorry to see he passed away very recently.
Terry Jones had the most sublimely gentle humor of the M.P. troup, but he was never droll.
When you look at the wing loading on those chubby puppies, it is an immediate NFW tell!