tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post6259482876432348790..comments2024-03-28T18:42:30.133-04:00Comments on Farmers Letters: I'll Go On...-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-5466996127252757922015-12-05T23:29:10.730-05:002015-12-05T23:29:10.730-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531079334473031464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-14902632396119420712015-12-05T07:34:54.203-05:002015-12-05T07:34:54.203-05:00I read "Dubliners", but only got halfway...I read "Dubliners", but only got halfway through "Portrait of a Young Artist" myself. I'm not a big Joyce fan, myself. But for his "subject matter", he's a very good writer. I prefer heroic, to crass, epiphanies.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-87566616386466389552015-12-05T00:46:56.623-05:002015-12-05T00:46:56.623-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531079334473031464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-78516593362142554192015-12-04T13:22:52.615-05:002015-12-04T13:22:52.615-05:00Beckett was also experimenting with minimalism. H...Beckett was also experimenting with minimalism. He'd been a researcher for James Joyce, and decided to move in the opposite direction.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-28771869608850230882015-12-04T09:38:44.043-05:002015-12-04T09:38:44.043-05:00What is it about both the Irish and the Jews that ...What is it about both the Irish and the Jews that makes them captious, eternally angry, dejected, hyper-critical of others, and markedly ungrateful for the great opportunities God accords everyone who can summon up the will to embrace Life on Life's terms?<br />------------<br /><br /><br />I hear that this play about four Dubliners is VERY LIFE AFFIRMING, FT. <br />http://www.undermain.org/Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531079334473031464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-89491536926664323542015-12-03T06:28:46.024-05:002015-12-03T06:28:46.024-05:00Just as no one can eat your dinner for you, it is ...Just as no one can eat your dinner for you, it is up to you –– and each of us –– to make the most of whatever opportunities –– great or small –– Fate has granted us. <br /><br />The world will never drop everything and run to anyone's side to cosset, comfort and pamper. <i>We must learn to give that to others while never expecting or even daring to hope for any such thing in return for FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-90259626028462064562015-12-02T20:50:32.347-05:002015-12-02T20:50:32.347-05:00The general smallness of their daily lives?
Great...The general smallness of their daily lives?<br /><br />Great stuff, btw, if not a bit depressing. ;)-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-81503903671741313922015-12-02T18:00:11.564-05:002015-12-02T18:00:11.564-05:00In my never humble opinion DEPRESSION –– especiall...In my never humble opinion DEPRESSION –– especially the desire to infect others with Depression –– is rooted in EXTREME SELF-DENTEREDNESS and the lack of any natural human warmth that would motivate one suffering soul to reach out to another with the desire to ALLEVIATE suffering, and AID others in exploring ways to avoid it.<br /><br />The determined practice of Altruism <i>[No one wants to FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-26161101332740165952015-12-02T16:40:33.908-05:002015-12-02T16:40:33.908-05:00_____ THE WAITING ROOM _____
_______________ I __...<b>_____ THE WAITING ROOM _____<br /><br />_______________ I ______________<br /><br /><i>Devoid they are of content<br />____ or of substance.<br />Skeletons softening<br />____ barely supporting overripe flesh ––<br />__________ flaccid –– just this side of putrid.<br />The puffy, seamed, sour faces<br />____ under preposterous clouds <br />__________ of dyed, home-permanented hair<br />Granny FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-8975000642775817242015-12-02T16:25:56.183-05:002015-12-02T16:25:56.183-05:00___________ WITHERING SCORN ___________
Who could...<b>___________ WITHERING SCORN ___________<br /><br /><i>Who could say what motivates the Mob?<br />Immodestly I say it isn’t I.<br />The preference seems to be for those who rob<br />Hope from those who still would like to try<br />Elevation over Desecration ––<br />Repair and not despair at what we dread.<br />It seems the Mob prefers alienation ––<br />Not Healing –– only Enmity instead.<br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-30644442858697592622015-12-02T16:17:03.083-05:002015-12-02T16:17:03.083-05:00___________ HARBINGERS of DOOM ____________
Mount...<b>___________ HARBINGERS of DOOM ____________<br /><br /><i>Mountainous lumpy females draped in black ––<br />Threatening thick black locks massed, hanging loose ––<br />Faces ghastly pale, mouths drooping, slack ––<br />Thick black horn-rimmed spectacles adduce<br /><br />Morbidity, while dressed in red and navy<br />Silver-headed granddads watch the pair,<br />Who look like they’ve been weanedFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-7101163585040162492015-12-02T16:04:45.064-05:002015-12-02T16:04:45.064-05:00_________ SEEN at the WINDOW _________
Go quickly...<b>_________ SEEN at the WINDOW _________<br /><br /><i>Go quickly to the window; take a look.<br />Outside on the horizon past the lawn<br />An army gathers set to move at dawn.<br />From their demonic, sacred Holy Book<br />Authority for their campaign is drawn<br />To compensate for old affronts. Their aim<br />Provides excuse to loot, destroy and maim<br />Innocent descendants whose heads FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-27465008477061989222015-12-02T16:01:38.151-05:002015-12-02T16:01:38.151-05:00___________ SCHOOL GUERILLA ___________
Schools n...<b>___________ SCHOOL GUERILLA ___________<br /><br /><i>Schools now function more as killing fields.<br />Careless parents –– cultural decay ––<br />Hopeless lack of leadership that yields<br />Only cowardice sure to delay<br /> <br />Overcoming suicidal urges ––<br />Leading always first to homicide ––<br />Gives vent to pious hypocrites’ dull dirges ––<br />Useless noises no one should abide.<FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-13300298350300427872015-12-02T15:56:04.598-05:002015-12-02T15:56:04.598-05:00___________ OUR DEBT THREATS ___________
O, Chris...<b>___________ OUR DEBT THREATS ___________<br /><br /><i>O, Christ, why can’t we hear it through the din?<br />Under what extreme conditions might we learn?<br />Rape invited’s wicked, though we’re in<br />Denial that our fate we richly earn.<br />Everyone must someday realize<br />Beating life can’t be. We’re bound to crash.<br />The Law of Averages whittles down to size.<br />The brightness ofFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-63669032723691601892015-12-02T15:51:43.724-05:002015-12-02T15:51:43.724-05:00____________ MUSICAL TOILETS ____________
Mistake...<br /><b>____________ MUSICAL TOILETS ____________<br /><br /><i>Mistaken notions in the world abound --<br />Unheard of at the time when I was born.<br />Surrounded –– soaked –– in crass, unwanted sound<br />I’m buried –– suffocated –– and forlorn.<br />Consciousness invaded by loud static ––<br />Ambushed –– conquered –– isolated –– snuffed ––<br />Languishes while Coarseness brays ecstatic.<brFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.com