Thanks, Jill.
I don't consider myself religious, but the stories fascinate me.
Theology--a discipline of pure imagination--and mysticism
(Yeats, Duncan, et al.) propose worlds as contrary to our
ordinary experience as quantum physics, and as exciting.
Blake says (approximately) "anything possible to be believed
is an image of truth," and that makes sense to me. 'Give me a
place to stand and I will move the world," Archimedes said.
Unfortunately, some people regard those images of truth as
fulcrums, and imagine the bones of the bombed as levers--
levers unable even to move the corpses they come from.
Rather than jam such levers under the 'real' world and try
to pile on enough Lilliputians to budge it (dream on, suckers),
I prefer to put contrary energies on the seesaw such images
engender, & let them frolic--to learn from them as from
children playing.
~ Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "JT Chan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: religious poem
>i like this daniel...
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> Jill
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> --- Daniel Zimmerman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> specials
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>> originally, who cares?
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>> somebody got it right
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>> eventually. the apple
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>> obviously didn't work
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>> as well as planned,
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>> so Cain made a hybrid
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>> & invented pears. pears?
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>> they couldn't compete
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>> with sheep, but Abel
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>> lost his perk
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>> to his brother's hand,
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>> so we had to wait a bit,
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>> out on a limb for lamb
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>> before we could eat it.
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>> ~ Daniel Zimmerman
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