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Thanks.

I finished the Karen Armstrong and her conclusion is that fundamentalism
wont go away and when it is pushed into a corner it can commit
desperate acts. The book covers 500 years up to 1999 (370 pages)
and I have always been struck by a quotation I clip from a play
'La Celestina' of `1499 by a converted Spanish Jew Fernando de Rojas
...There is no God; love is the supreme value, but when love dies,
the world is revealed as a wasteland....    Hence the book about
the craving for religion built into us.

I also read the Hafiz with his Sufi love of life, he is the poet of Iran,
and I will sign off by typing in a poem of his:

   The great religions are the ships,
   Poets the lifeboats.
   Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
   That is good for business isn't it Hafiz?
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Douglas Clark, Bath, England           mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath  ..........  http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Printmaker wrote:

> Douglas Clark wrote:
> >
> > I didnt make myself very clear. What I am curious about are the
> > beliefs of the hunter-gatherers before agriculture came. The
> > authorities I can think of are Luigi Cavalli-Sforza for pygmies,
> > Laurens van der POst for bushmen, and Bruce Chatwin for aborigines.
> > These peoples still being around, just.
> >
> > Douglas Clark, Bath, England           mailto: [log in to unmask]
> > Lynx: Poetry from Bath  ..........  http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
>
> You might like to track down some of Eric Michael's writings
> on the Australian Aboriginals. There's a collection of
> essays called 'bad aboriginal art' which isnt at all what
> you might think from the title. I found it far more
> informative that songlines, in fact, from memory, Michaels
> crits songlines in one of the essays.
>
> Josie
>