let us drink to aesthetic dystopia...here's to the muse...in absentia

....art museums have existed for barely two hundred years. They bulked so large in the nineteenth century,   and are so much part of our lives today that we forget they have imposed upon the spectator a wholly new attitude towards the work of art. For they have tended to estrange the works they bring together from their original functions and to transform even portraits into ‘pictures'.


                      Andre' Malraux --1940





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o that pernicious monster within

...(sic)  barbarism is never finally defeated;  given propitious circumstances, men and women who seem quite orderly will commit every conceivable atrocity.   The danger does not come merely from habitual hooligans; we are all potential recruits for anarchy.   Unremitting effort is needed to keep men living together at peace; there is only a margin of energy left over for experiment, however beneficent.   Once the prisons of the mind have been opened,
 the orgy is on.


                                               Evelyn Waugh









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Uhlmann's Razor

“When stupidity seems a sufficient explanation,

 there is no need for recourse 

to any more elaborate analysis.”

            ...Occam is writhing in purgatory

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found poem # 456,897

Please do not
   Play the Piano




......do you mean....never?

Bill Evans would defy the command

i imagined sitting there, opening the cover
make the little grand playable
and just sit there in hommage to john Cage








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4 last things

            Death

              Judgement

                  Heaven

                       Hell....




..........short final steps to eternity







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to see by faith

To one who has faith,
no explanation is necessary.
To one without faith,
no explanation is possible.



-St. Thomas Aquinas











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just found poem

           # 7,998



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              ...sounds like a policy statement for just about anything

two intellectual roads

either you make the effort to conform your desires to truth
or you spin your wheels 
                            making truth conform to your desires






                                                e michael jones






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found poem

Amen Christ is Our Savior One Man + One Woman Family is Our Strength







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no wonder we're in such a wretched state of affairs

musics are cultural particularisations
of the human capacity
 to form multiply-intentional representations
through integrating information
across different functional domains
of temporally extended
 or sequenced human experience
 and behaviour,
 generally expressed in sound



....bach would vomit








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