Title: Incantation to MVMXXIII
created on 12 Apr 20

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1. chelydra wrote:
 No time now for a proper tribute, and too late anyway if you really believe an invisible time warp can slice the planet apart...
2. chelydra wrote:
 ...hurling you into tomorrow and leaving me adrift in yesterday... But still I knew I'd have to try to send something your way when...
3. chelydra wrote:
 ... in the course of trying to keep Hazer entertained in her lonely arctic refuge, I chanced upon these words and knew they were about you...
4. chelydra wrote:
 ...well, sort of, anyway, if you want them to be...
5. chelydra wrote:
 All that is transitory Is but an image The inadequacy of earth Here finds fulfillment The ineffable Here is accomplished The eternal feminine Leads us upwards 萬物中ä¹
無常 本是空è
Š±å¹»
6. chelydra wrote:
 . . . 圓滿 無以名ç
‹€ä¹‹é“ 在此å
¾—以成就 æ°¸æ
的母性啊 å¼
領眾生升華
7. chelydra wrote:
 which is Ii think extracted from Part II of Goethe's Faust, recycled as song lyrics in this catchy little tune : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX51
TVAyUWE (make sure to delate any spaces that sneak into the url)
8. chelydra wrote:
 While those words (up to upwards or 眾生升華, but in German) are being sung, (at least I think that's what's going on) these other words appear on the screen in murky blood-red lettering:
9. chelydra wrote:
 " Roar Heaven and Earth — Cry Demons and Angels — Grandeur Grandeur "
10. chelydra wrote:
 and what that's supposed to mean is anyone's guess, but maybe it's somehow appropriate for a day that combines an earth-goddess's birthday with Jesus's resurrection and—
11. chelydra wrote:
 (icing on the birthday cake, decoration on the shell of a well-hidden Cosmic Egg)— the climax (?) of a world-class plague...
12. chelydra wrote:
 ...well... I guess the plan to bat out a quick cheery Easter-Birthday card has run aground on the shoals of demon-infested, angel-serenaded grandiosity...
13. chelydra wrote:
 and the time it took to embellish this crude little picture with all this heavy verbal baggage might have been been spent...
14. chelydra wrote:
 ... (stating the obvious) either in making you a much nicer picture or in assembling almost-overdue paperwork...
15. chelydra wrote:
 ...although when I'm here and you're there, I'm left behind in a yesterday that no longer exists for you, and you're flying off into a tomorrow I can never experience until you're done with it and have moved on...
16. chelydra wrote:
 So anyway, even if it's already The Day After (after birthday and easter, that is, though probably not yet the plague) the message I'm struggling so hard to get across . . .
17. chelydra wrote:
 . . . (and would've got across by now if I weren't so frantically procrastinating to postpone meeting the oaperwork deadline)
18. chelydra wrote:
 (p) . . . can actually be summed up easily enough:
19. chelydra wrote:
 Have a nice day!
20. chelydra wrote:
 Box #15 was supposed to lead into a remark about the unreality of time but I don't remember how that remark was going to be, or why it was relevant or any least clever...
21. chelydra wrote:
 (apologies for too-hasty edit in #20—trying to save time! But time can't be saved!!! Salvation and resurrection may be available for some — but not for Time!)
22. chelydra wrote:
 "Space is the dwelling-place of the Gods, but Time is the invention of Mankind" as Max Beckmann put it in his "Letters to a Young Woman Painter"
23. chelydra wrote:
 But perhaps if I get this %$#@ing paperwork done on Time (whatever that is) —
24. chelydra wrote:
 â€” it'll cover the cost of one last space-traveling visit (time-traveling is always free but always takes us the wrong direction!) before we part forever . . .
25. chelydra wrote:
 . . . unless you can get your fellow tomorrow-dwellers to give you a hefty raise, so you can relax and drift off into the misty miasmic realm of bottomless yesterdays . . .
26. chelydra wrote:
 . . . and float once more among the chelydrans and other lost souls who (one of us anyway) await your forthcoming Fourth Coming . . .
27. chelydra wrote:
 Enough, enough of this frothy humming!!! (The rhymes okay but the meter's way off, but that's The End, for now (whatever Now is)
28. chelydra wrote:
 .)
29. mum23 wrote:
 You got me with the title alone...
30. chelydra wrote:
 shoulda left it at that?
31. Hazer wrote:
 Oh no! Not just a picture without a glimpse into the mind that created it.Especially when there is precious little else to entertain north of the 49th.
32. chelydra wrote:
 Isn't the Keystone Pipeline passing through your neighborhood (or is it a neighbourhood?) The pipeline itself may not be much fun, but any "political" conflict is somewhat entertaining . . .
33. chelydra wrote:
 . . . I think. Like jigsaw puzzling, seeing how the pieces fit. And once you start to figure out what's going on & why, you're halfway to winning. Winning is always uplifting.
34. chelydra wrote:
 Defending toothed whales from the scrimshaw industry and its fake charities promoting offshore "veterinary dentistry" campaigns... endless potential...
35. chelydra wrote:
 And if you can't find any enemies to crusade against, it's easy enough to make them out of whatever raw materials are within reach...
36. chelydra wrote:
 And once you get into it, you'll find that the best part of turning friends/neighbors into enemies is turning them back into friends. Tricky and challenging, but most rewarding. And entertaining too.
37. chelydra wrote:
 Never a dull moment if you're open-minded about the possibilities for new kinds of entertainment awaiting everywhere you look.
38. Hazer wrote:
 Politics always a contentious, if not downright volatile topic. Fossil fuels vs solar, wind, nuclear. East vs west. Socialism vs capitalism. The never ending demands of the |First Nations. Getting our crude to tidewater.
39. Hazer wrote:
 Water rights. A PM who has crippled the western economy long before the corona virus.So many topics.
40. chelydra wrote:
 A great showcase topic! Water rights!



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