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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Nostalgia? In The Beginning ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 31, 2023, 06:12:09 PM »

So ... I made love / had sex with ms.c.o’kelly ... &, @ the time, I thought-felt 1stly / mostly of mine/my own pleasure  ‘first’&ofhers2nd ... & what was ‘that’ but another form of a sort of ‘rape’ ... & how ‘common’ was ‘that’?! ... I regretted a lot when I thought/felt about ‘things’, in ‘past tense’ ... if you don’t have sex without thinking-feeling of the ‘other’ coming first, then ... forgive me ever?! p.x

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 29, 2023, 02:06:40 PM »

  remembering ‘TheFool’ ...
Even his death was doubtful.
Even his death was ‘doubtf’l’
The world had seen so much, it’s sad weight
Crushed to nothing concern for a fool’s fate:
General woe, great decay, made it but a trifle.

He disappeared as if to spite Morning/mourning;
Going to bed at noon,
Not too late, not too soon;
Outside, a naughty night was storming.

Fool-father Socrates takes the stand ...
etc, etc, etc

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 29, 2023, 01:48:31 AM »

... (universal) tragedy? ... (universal) comedy? ... you decide ... ) ...
... trgycmdy for the spacetime being ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 29, 2023, 01:28:55 AM »

... there are always other ways ...
... you are ‘damned’ because Eve&Adam ate from the TreeOfKnowledge ...
... Prometheus gave to ‘humanity’ the KnowledgeOfLight ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 29, 2023, 01:16:12 AM »

... I actually ‘forced’ to be ‘re-assigned’ here ... because I ‘liked the look’ of ‘humanity’ ... but then I ‘saw’/otherwiseexperienced ‘the horrible howling of the Yahoos’ [$wift] ... & I watched, eg, Israeli massacres of Palestinians, (as the rest of ‘their’ world looked on) & I thought-feeled/felt ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 28, 2023, 12:41:06 PM »

... they/we/i/you have 2 much to say for/4 ‘them’selves ... like ms o’kelly ...
ps ... & no one said it was go’ing 2b ‘easy’ b.tween ‘gilgamesh’ ... & ... ?! ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 26, 2023, 01:39:12 AM »

And so ... (in my ‘scatter-brained’ consciousness) ... it was Samantha/Sam. (& I was olde enuf 2 b her grand-father!) who ‘gifted’ me the most ‘profound’/‘intriguing’/thought-provoking ‘idea’ of Christmas Day 2023, viz: don’t school children too rigidly in (more or less) ‘equal-aged’ classes ... spread the generations ...
This ‘fitted’ my ideas of ‘comprehensiveness’ on one ‘level’, but on another ‘level’ suggested ... a wider scale of ‘possibility’ ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Nostalgia? In The Beginning ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 20, 2023, 12:12:35 PM »

Why/Y were ‘you/we/one’ so ‘in-tent’ on killing ‘people/others’ 2/to ‘achieve’ (sic) ‘ends’ (sic) ?! p.x.
(ps when ‘even’ the pope called Israelis ‘terrorists’, then ...)

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Nostalgia? In The Beginning ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 15, 2023, 04:30:07 PM »

Reference Texts included: ... H.G.Wells, The cunt-tree/Country of the Blind ...
... people of 'vision' visited a land of the 'blind'/limited visioned ...
... they 'imagined' (wrongly as it turned out) that they might have something to 'illuminate' to 'the people of the blind'/limited visioned ...
... what they 'discovered' (in-stead) was a society that had 'adapted' to 'ways of the "blind"(sic)' ...
... 'so' they f'd off elsewhere ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on December 15, 2023, 04:18:20 PM »

AnyWay ... Reference texts included: The Sorrow of War, by Bao Ninh [something lost in trans-literation?], English version by Frank Palmos, from original translation by Phan Thanh Hao, originally published as THAN PHAN CUA TINH YEU, by nha xuat ban hoi nha van, (Writers' Association Publishing House), Hanoi, 1991.
First published in Great Britain 1994 ...
This Minerva edition published ... by Minerva Paperbacks ...