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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (12773)5/2/2001 1:09:40 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (3) of 82486
 
Christopher I have re-read your post several times with my mouth open in wonderment. Truly. I kept saying to myself: "This person is not a lawyer, he is a CRACKPOT."

Finally, I simply sat in silence--periodically shaking my head slowly from side to side--stupefied by the darkness that seemed to drift down around me from across the centuries. I imagined myself huddled around a dying campfire, my skin prickling as I sensed the glare of tiny--oh so tiny eyes; black and empty eyes--obsidian--waiting with baleful patience for the light to be extinguished forever. I heard the air sough as my tiny fire dimmed down--while the woods scaped and clanked behind me.

The dread lay like a mountain lion across my chest--its ancient heart beating heavy against mine...

Slowly I fought my way back to my office, the monotonous hum of my computer fans guiding me slowly back to the world of my senses.

I read your post again--and yet again. Then I thought of the Robert Frost poem:

"I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees."

Thus do the three monkeys sit for all eternity; neither criticizing nor praising; neither hearing, nor seeing... nor speaking:

"Mommy, they took more Jews away from the school today."

"SHUT UP. They don't owe US any money, do they?"

You have gone from merely annoying--to something feral and incomprehensible. I am not ready to face this day. I will sleep awhile, and hope that the dream gods can brush your words from my mind...
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