Simply because some facts are consistent with a hypothesis doesn’t necessarily mean that they provide support for it or “prove” it – David P Barash – How Women Got Their Curves – 2009 p24
The government now backs 90% of all new home mortgages in the US
The missionary offered a complete if unusable code of thought and behavior, the modernizer offered nothing at all save a place in the ranks – Paul Bowles – Too Far From Home: Selected Writing of, 1993
3.2% of all US adults (7.3 million people) are now under supervision by the criminal justice system
We have to live / in a half-world, not ours nor history’s / And learn the false from half-true premises – Thom Gunn [Collected Poems] 1994 p69
The rich, they share
With their own
The bourgeoisie give
To no one
The poor contribute
To everyone
Each moment as it is being lived exists, but not the imaginary total – Borges
She’s back
She’s the back up
Can’t back down
What a let down
It’s a show down
If she shows up
Can’t let up
Don’t fall down
A bumpy ride – up and down
I’m about to throw up
I want to come down
Why don’t you come up
And see me some time
They had broken his heart, he said, but it was not true. The heart cannot be broken. The heart can be wounded and cause the whole universe to appear as one vast withering place of anguish. But the heart knows no limit in its ability to endure suffering and torment. Were it otherwise the race would have perished long ago – Henry Miller – The Wisdom to the Heart, 1960 p121
Bubba – a nickname form the word ‘brother’ and usually given to the eldest male sibling as in Gerry “Bubba” Watson the gofer. The female equlivant is Sissy as in Sissy Spacek (given name Mary Elizabeth Spacek). Both sons and daughters who share an exact name with a parent may be called ‘jr’- in which case the parent becomes a ‘Sr’ (with a capital ‘S’). The usage of this term is mainly American – in French it would be pere and fils (as in Alexander Dumas). Although the term ‘jr’ is occasionally used for daughters it is most often used for the wife as in “Mrs Lon Chaney jr” (although he was not realy a junior, his given name being Crighton). A roman numeral is also used to designate a jr – boxer George Forman named all of his five sons after himself (II though VI). ‘Chip’ and ‘Bub’ are common substitures for ‘jr’ or ‘II’, while ‘Tip(p)’ or ‘Trey’ may be used for a ‘III’.
The absolute is hard to formulate: / Failure, desire, seek out their man; the date / Is relative, they die once they belong – Thom Gunn [Collected Poems] 1994 p62
If you drill a hole straight down through the center of the earth hoping to come out in China, don’t start in the hee US but in Argentina. If you start here you’ll come out in the southern Indian Ocean or more likely the stormy Antarctic and your hole will fill up with the salty water and maybe even a few fish and you'll drown.
A man has to have some definite view of the nature of the world in order to reject it – Henry Miller – The Wisdom to the Heart, 1960 p120
I got the new truck insured as a second vehicle which saved me abut two hundred dollars (almost enough to pay for the insurance on the old truck – I might want to rethink selling it). It is raining – lightly raining – enough for vehicle tires to go swish. The neighbor said that rattlers got her cat and also Allen’s dog. Another neighbor is out chasing down a kid from the projects who was ringing doorbells. She says that’s how they find if anyone is at home. This place is insured but….. At least they won’t get a big screen TV casue the ex took that. That cat was a good mouser, she said.
It isn’t important to be going somewhere, but that one simply feels better being enroute, being, that is nowhere for the moment – Paul Bowles – Too Far From Home: Selected Writing of, 1993 p511
Another dog
Another beer
Another day
What men want is nearly identical to what woman want to be – David P Barash – How Women Got Their Curves – 2009 p95
It’s not your father’s
Pornography anymore
Push some more
My way
Up and down
And in and out
Are only a dream
A part
The world is going mad as the Italian and Spanish Renaissance went mad. But where is our Reformation, where is our new life?…One must live quiet apart, forgetting, having another world, a world as yet uncreated – D H Lawrence
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