[PhilDragoo]

Facing what he perceives as a choice between ecstatic chaos and lifeless mechanistic order, he accedes to maintaining a separation of asexual purity and brutal sexual reality.

And this fatalism is born out of the relation between fertility and death, which I touched on in my last letter—life feeds on itself.

A storm smoothes the sky, impounding the city lights, returning to us a dull yellow glow.

You look down to watch your feet, neat unified steps, and you throw back your arms and run after people, and run from them and with them, and sometimes someone will shadow your pace, step for step, and you can hear the person puffing, a different puff than yours, and on a good day they’ll come up alongside and thank you for a good run, for keeping a good pace, and you nod and keep going on your way, but you’re pretty pleased, and your stride gets lighter, the slumber slipping off behind you, into the wake of the past.

Facing what we perceive as a choice between an emetic expurgation and clueless pedantic bloviation, he opts for the oblique esoteric allusion and the double-helix of banality and cliche.

And this narcissism is borne of a bisexual conflation of archetypes coupling like angry goats, bleating for release from this life-death-whatever angst.

You look down to watch your custom made shoes and throw back your head, looking down your nose at folks who have not a scintilla of realization that you've given them a good run, from Walla Walla to the shores of Waikiki, from the mud of Mombasa to sands of Indonesia, from the windy tonsils to the virtual park bench.

What a long, strange trip it's been.

Thank me,

My Barack

[Fred Nerks]

...from Walla Walla to the shores of Waikiki...

From the President of the American University of Beirut who is quoted as saying that the United States would lose World War Three without a shot being fired - to Frank Marshall Davis, selling drugs from a hot-dog stand...

It's been one heck of ride.

[Fred Nerks]

At the time of his death, Penrose was America's best-known advocate of Palestinian statehood. He wrote worked tirelessly for better understanding between the Arab World and the United States. "America's stake in the Middle East is fundamentally the possibility of losing World War III before a shot has been fired," he warned an audience at the Delmonico Hotel in New York in January 1951. Two years later, in May 1953, Penrose testified before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Middle East that, "It is no exaggeration to say that upon the solution to the problem of Palestine rests not only the peace of the Middle East but very possibly of the entire world . . . The refugee problem is a psychological one and should not be attacked on a purely statistical basis."

Guide to the Stephen B. L. Penrose, Jr. Papers, 1908-1990.LINK

Genevieve Helen Cook was born on Jun 7, 1958 Philip Caryl Jessup, Jr. was born on Aug 30, 1926 in Utica, NY

Helen Ibbitson Cook Jessup was born on Apr 29, 1933

THERE NOW APPEARS TO BE A LINK BETWEEN THIS GENEVIEVE COOK AND DOMESTIC TERRORIST BILL AYERS – BOTH ATTENDED BANK STREET COLLEGE IN THE EARLY 1980′S – WHICH IS ALSO AROUND THE SAME TIME COOK WAS ALLEGED TO BE DATING BARACK OBAMA.

The great grandfather of Philip Caryl Jessup, Jr. was Henry Harris Jessup (1832–1910) founder of the American University in Beirut, and who's first wife Caroline Bush died in Alexandria, Egytpt.

Does the American University in Beirut and Alexandria, Egypt ring a bell to any of you 0bama researchers?

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[little jeremiah]

Funny - last night as I was lying in bed I realized I should have said that excerpt could have been used not just as an emetic but a purgative, if needed...

I suppose Ayers got some nasty jollies writing that smack.