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He thought he kept the universe alone;
For all the voice in answer he could wake
Was but the mocking echo of his own
From some tree-hidden cliff across the lake.
Some morning from the boulder-broken beach
He would cry out on life, that what it wants
Is not its own love back in copy speech,
But counter-love, original response.
And nothing ever came of what he cried
Unless it was the embodiment that crashed
In the cliff’s talus on the other side,
And then in the far distant water splashed,
But after a time allowed for it to swim,
Instead of proving human when it neared
And someone else additional to him,
As a great buck it powerfully appeared,
Pushing the crumpled water up ahead,
And landed pouring like a waterfall,
And stumbled through the rocks with horny tread,
And forced the underbrush–and that was all.
When all Earth’s seas shall Levitate,
Dark shawled within the skies,
Upon our eyes will Starfish dance
Their waltz of Blind surprise.
The sun will Rise within wine Dark
As Argonauts imbibed,
Whose drunken arms embrace that sleep
Where Phaeton’s horses Stride.
Upon all of Earth’s wind-sanded shores,
As dolphins Learn to soar,
All we once were on the land
Shall be sealed behind the door
Of Ivory and Chastened Gold,
That the Mystery solved complete
Shall never til the seas’ Long fall
Wake mariners from their sleep.
— Van der Leun
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
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
— The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
Gerard Van der Leun
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Subtle.
Veeery subtle.
A bit of daylight right here. Tracy is a trip mine. That means she’s my heroine. Watch out, the Left – we have your number, now. Tracy joins Rosanne (a wounded and loose cannon comic genius) and Norm MacDonald, Gavin McInnes, and Dennis Miller as true comedians.
Fuck off, Jamie!
I found this video deeply offensive. First, it was in color, which means that it appropriated the cinematography from non-whites, or people of “color.” The video should have been in black and white, except that would have privileged whites and oppressed black people. One could say it was in grayscale, but that implies sameness and would be highly offensive and oppressive to all of us who celebrate diversity. It could have been made as a cartoon, but inevitably it would have meant caricaturing (hence stereotyping) the characters, which you can do to the white characters (I mean, who cares? They are all Nazis anyway) but not to the minority players — who were massively under-represented in the casting!
Therefore, this video should never have been made at all. I demand that you take it off your site, you neo-Nazi, fascist hatemonger!
Sir! YES SIR!!
I vass amussssed!
It’s always important to check out what “The Ullwoman” is up to. After all, she helped launch “The Simpsons” (The Simpson’s …….. )
‘Struth!! Simpsons started as a minor segment on her show in early 90’s
The fact that Tracey Ullman did this isn’t surprising- but the fact that the BBC showed it is amazing!
Glad to see that Tracey is still subversive, and I greatly enjoyed that video!
what’s http://www.facebook.com? I’m just getting a silly sad face icon…is something supposed to be there?