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I Hate Explanations….!

September 4, 2026

The Omphalos Cafe after fifteen years…..   “The great stone that nearly closed the cleft from which the gases came …

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The Ever Ongoing Flow Of Life….

August 24, 2026

  “Cityful passing away, other cityful coming, passing away too: other coming along, passing on.”—James Joyce, Ulysses   If you’ve …

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The Impending Rebirth Of Symbols….

August 20, 2026

  “Symbols hold the mind to truth but are not themselves truth, hence it is delusory to borrow them. Each …

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A Quiet Haven….

July 6, 2026

  Call us lone wolves. Sometimes Steppenwolves.    Lately I’ve come across a new term: Sigma males.    We’re not …

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“My Only Friend… The End!”

March 24, 2025

Inspired by a visit to Père-Lachaise cemetery and the grave of Jim Morrison:   “And yet even then [Paleolithic Age] …

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Same Old Song….!

March 16, 2025

  “If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come …

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The Priests And The Shaman…

March 3, 2025

  “And yet even then [Paleolithic Age] there was an allowance made for a certain type of deviant, the visionary, …

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On Ulysses, Books, Books, Books, and ‘Coffined Words…’

December 18, 2023

   I wrote this in response to a comment I received today on a YouTube video I did many years …

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Life Is On BOTH Ends Of A Gun….

October 29, 2023

  “All these characters, moving around and against one another, share but facets of some prodigious unity and are at …

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Poetic Gold….

October 27, 2023

 “The poet is the intense centre of the life of his age to which he stands in a relation than …

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