calonlan wrote:
> Quick note off topic - and I hope I didn't rattle
> too many cages with the last post - just sitting
> here feeling a bit snarky- will be having my 45th
> biopsy/catheterization on my transplanted heart on
> tuesday - imagine getting carved on Valentine's
> day! - so far, it's still the only way to
> determine how things are going since the A-Nodes
> are cut and I have no feeling related to the heart
> muscle - so folks, I respect you all and hope you
> will sacrifice a victim, or offer of incense or
> whatever pleases your various deities whether
> benign or indifferent (see Crom), on my behalf - I
> always have to sign a document releasing them from
> blame if I go toes up during the procedure, and
> hope they don't slip - I really relish to fun and
> often brilliant conversation and repartee' that
> can be found here - Eldritch Dark 201 should be a
> required course for today's students.
And will be, perhaps, some day. Thank you for being "a rope over an abyss" and linking us with CAS the Superman.
Quote:Dr Farmer: While there are many books there are few that readers return to again and again. For myself, I re-read Tolkien and Lewis and George MacDonald, T.E. Lawrence, and all of Kazantzakis, Spencer, Milton, Shakespeare — and Smith. Where wisdom and beauty, charm and wit are found, and where I, as I grow in age and experience, also change, certain writers call one back again and again and something new is discovered, and we also find that the well as we originally drank from it, has not become muddied — that is, our first love, in its innocence, is still rewarded. How many adventure stories or films we thrilled to as children, as adults now seem trite and campy and even badly written. Yet a few authors commend themselves to re-reading — long before I discovered the ongoing throng of fans of CAS, I felt called back from time to time to re-read his tales and his poetry — some remains unforgettable. Why read Ashton? He will haunt your reveries forever — and reward your re-visiting every time.
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“The true independent is he who dwells detached and remote from the little herds as well as from the big herd. Affiliating with no group or cabal of mice or monkeys, he is of course universally suspect.†—
The Black Book of Gore Vidal.