Ken Wolman wrote:
> I'd like to think that most of us will get lighter floggings when we
> get to meet The Great Scorer. I try to avoid showing up other people
> unless they owe me money:-).
> Speaking of the Great Scorer, I gather Trungpa checked out at age 48.
> Oh well. Bad karma and high-priced alcohol will do it every time.
Yet Burroughs made it to 83. Perhaps fate is a better explanation than
karma.
>
> From the wording of Merwin and Naone acting "chastened," did they
> accept they had this coming? Or was the stripping to keep Merwin from
> reaching for a weapon?
To keep dishing it up (which a nice person wouldn't - that's why the
Lady is a Tramp) - I believe everyone else was already naked & possibly
stoned enough to regard the whole thing as a "gas". Oh still sad music
of humanity.
mj
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M.J.Walker - no webpage, no blogspot, no idea -
nobody dies, 'nothing happens', we call it music,
it is time rushing past the shabby portals of our ear
and I am just a terrible mistake.
Robert Kelly
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