As I LOVE reading Aurelius because of his devotion to Stoicism, his wit,
his compression, his utter moral clarity and his views on how it is
possible to live decently with A Body, I like the subject line. As I
*dont'* love reading the posts of that person who just joined the list the
other day mostly because he's been and snipping and complaining at me from
another very conservative listserv for a month now, I'd just as soon not,
Anny, have my name associated with this it-person in this way.
There is the no "versus," there is the only me filtering the people I
filter. I only the read posts that the have some value for me. You'll see.
I used to get all sorts of wonderful backchannels -- nasty nasty ones. But
they've stopped now that I use filters.
At 03:59 PM 4/18/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Marcus Aurelius versus Gabriel the Archangel
>earth against sky resurrecting oceanic waves
>a dying religion opposed to an histrionic thunder
>sealed in the authority of the Judgment of a never
>repeatable history - yes, time arrived and it was the
> Time
>it was Luciferus himself who called inside swirling
>winds the archangel to join his tempestuous depths
>whispering shivering gently surreptitiously licking
>with his luminous swords attacking from blades of air
>the gold of earth had shimmered to rest but brief alas
>was the soothing break and crack went the spine as
>the archangel flew to the heights of doubt enlightened
>the crowd swimming in spa the crow and the snake
>the crocodile and the bird who is black
>
>them deprived of self received the one only thought
>and said yes and Aurelius died and the Archangel
>died too - never play with crowds says Aesop to you.
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"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things
they misname empire; and where they make
a wilderness, they call it peace." -- Tacitus
Gabriel Gudding
Department of English
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790
office 309.438.5284
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