Fighting the Universal Spider Too

The good news is that the more intelligent a man is the more faithful he will be to his spouse. This is not true of women – they tend to be more faithful anyway and their level of  intelligence doesn’t seem to make any difference. Now for the bad news – intelligent people (both men and women) are less likely to hold true to ‘family values’ (they tend to be more godless and to be more communitarian – i.e. they are more likely than less intelligent people to be liberal atheists – God forbid!). But for you adulterous God-fearing ignorant conservatives (I would have written adulterous God-fearing ingnorant conservative sons-of-a bitches - but as I said the promiscousness of women is not correlated with their intelligence)  there is hope – they don’t breed any faster than you do so you still have a chance. You can lock them up (but can't kill them before they are born) as fast as they arrive as God intended that you do - millions for prisons and not one penny on health for that is socialism (and are not prisons socialized housing?)

Today even the dead have agreed to come, / And the exiles are in my home. / You are leading the child to me by the hand, / I have longed for him so – Anna Akhmatova – The Complete Poems, 1992a p271

We see them as they are
      Crippled and bent double
Then we shall see them as they were
       At their best, erect
Full of desire with dark hair
And when we tell our stories
       Some of them shall be omitted
As for me will you be just as kind

Take pity on the sorrowful and weary one… / Oblivion of pain and oblivion of bless - / To give up live for this is no small thing – Anna Akhmatova – The Complete Poems, 1992 p297

What note sounds like red?
Why is the key of D colored blue?

There was no temptation. Temptation lives in silence, / It torments anchorites, oppresses saints – Anna Akhmatova – The Complete Poems, 1992 p295

The fat man who is sitting just outside this door owns all the sidewalk and part of the street. He has a booming voice. His constant monologues sometimes produce dialogs, but only for an angry moment. He wears his blue baseball cap Latino working class style - bill forward. He eyes are ominvorant. He watches each pedestrian pass by. He doesn’t always have an interjection to interrupt their perambulations. It is a warm Sunday night. He hollers at passing cars. He waves off all his the other local crazies who have been attracted by his magnetic glow with a swish of his hand.

So a bear also has to have a lot of body hair?. I just thought that they had to have big bushy beards. You learn something new everyday. That’s what keeps you coming back - time after time - again and again. Metaphors are a swim in my head – barefooted excursions into the farm pasture as a kid, working on Fortune 500 mergers. It squishes between your toes and is still warm. The smaller the pie the more bitter the fight.

Reason does not seem up to the task of suppressing the desire for revenge - –Williard Gaylin – The Perversion of Autonomy: coercion and constraints in a liberal society, 2003

I am a stranger in a familiar place. I walk into my former office - "Well if it isn’t Fred Stair". "Can you transfer some files of me?"  After you have turned your property in no one gives a damn. "Do you have an appointment?" " What is it? I’m busy."  What did I expect. I’m a nobody now. I can cause them no grief. Business relationships are predicated on future returns or avoidence of risk at least - a quid pro quo - no quid no quo - nada - nothing. Oh yes they remember your name. They smile. But you are not relevant. Oh well, I guess I would have acted the same in these circumstances. So now I make a 3PM appointment.  I get my benefits package. I still need to turn in my most recent expense account.

I grant you pardon [Louis XV to Chardais, who to divert himself had just killed a man], but I also pardon whoever will kill you - Louis XV