Family I passed one who had slain thousands and thousands more thronged at his side and granted him a life of peace with pennants waving gaily over his lands
and I passed one who had saved thousands and one more came and sat by his side and played to him on an ancient lyre and kissed his hand on leave-taking
and the slayer and the savior were one man and the thousands slain and the thousands saved were one man and the throngs who attended the first and the one who sang for the last were one man and I alone saw him
As an interesting counterpoint to "The Egg", there's this: https://youtu.be/EKR-HydGohQ (Our Greatest Delusion), which I coincidentally discovered on the same day.
To coin another sad truth no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the american people. Mencken I believe.
ReplyDelete"All history is one immortal man who continually learns."
ReplyDelete-- Philip K. Dick, Tractates Cryptica Scriptura
"If all are one, all violence is masochism."
-- Brother Henry Hastur, Illuminatus!
"'You are God participating in himself,' says NHGH."
-- St. Janor Hypercleats, The Book of the SubGenius
Family
ReplyDeleteI passed one who had slain thousands
and thousands more thronged at his side
and granted him a life of peace
with pennants waving gaily over his lands
and I passed one who had saved thousands
and one more came and sat by his side and
played to him on an ancient lyre
and kissed his hand on leave-taking
and the slayer and the savior
were one man
and the thousands slain and the thousands saved
were one man
and the throngs who attended the first
and the one who sang for the last
were one man
and I alone saw him
for I am he
--Joe Henry”
As an interesting counterpoint to "The Egg", there's this:
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/EKR-HydGohQ (Our Greatest Delusion), which I coincidentally discovered on the same day.