Well it's certainly not woof!
L
On 30 January 2015 at 02:50, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes I know this but revisited it, L. Not one kneels to another, all right.
> But as to ownership, try to step into a space a dog owns, for instance. I
> know, I know, they are not grasping. Has a dog a Buddah nature? Mu is the
> correct answer is it not?
>
> B
>
>
> > On 29 Jan 2015, at 9:54 pm, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Bill
> > Do you know Whitman's "I think I could turn and live with animals"?
> >
> > I was quite pleased with danked. It's my own invention
> >
> > L
> >> On 29 January 2015 at 08:32, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 'danked' as in unpleasantly moistened, I take it, L. Like it. Reminds
> me,
> >> the poem I mean, of something my wife said to me this morning,
> dismissing
> >> those who would claim that suffering in humans ennobles. If their God
> >> exists, would He say that it is good for animals? Or if, she went on,
> if He
> >> is omnipotent, why so design humans? Could have come up with a better
> model.
> >>
> >> B
> >>
> >>
> >>>> On 28 Jan 2015, at 11:58 pm, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I said once, to myself
> >>>
> >>> or perhaps to my lover,
> >>>
> >>> that being close to animals
> >>>
> >>> will make us more human:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> she sneered at me
> >>>
> >>> for speaking to a donkey - conversationally -
> >>>
> >>> on our way to eat,
> >>>
> >>> my hands danked by donkey tongue...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> it is two way, not magic -
> >>>
> >>> a rabbit's foot does nothing
> >>>
> >>> but lames the rabbit --
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> seek out animals
> >>>
> >>> like one who lost them --
> >>>
> >>> non-speakers
> >
>
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