Dear Doug
> Lovely.
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Thank you
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> Reminds me of 'the tree with the lights in it,' that Annie Dillard wrote
> about in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek....,
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I confess that I have seen that for the first time now, post google
I see what you mean
L
> Doug
> On 2012-02-13, at 5:09 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> I’d go blinkered. Much light fires up its thought.
>> One must look away, burned, as if God’s hand
>> were still making the means of perception; and the heat of his fingers
>> traces meteors into bright eyes closed against that seeing unable to
>> resist the knowledge act, neither I nor It able to control what we are
>> when we are exposed to sight. A simple thing, a stone, or else a plant,
>> is in flame, of kind, all time, becoming ash of a future when the
>> universe falls into itself at the end of days. The whole world is
>> burning, without decay or diminishment; and all are tinder.
>>
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> Douglas Barbour
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> What dull barbarians are not proud of
> their dullness and barbarism?
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