“One Little Thing” Makes All the Difference
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MY NEWS FOR JULY 28, 1999 COPYRIGHT 1999 JAN COX
A MAN SAYS: “IMMEDIATELY UPON HEARING THAT, ‘MAN IS ASLEEP’ I BECAME A SLAVE TO BEING ASLEEP;
I THEN BEGAN TRYING TO AWAKEN,
AND HAVE SPENT A LIFE TIME, A SLAVE TO AWAKENING,
MORAL: YOU’RE ALWAYS A SLAVE TO SOMETHING, WAKE LIP & SEE ITL
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ON MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, ONE MAN WOULD BASE HIS THINKING ABOUT LIFE ON SCIENTIFIC TRUTHS,
AND ON TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS AND SATURDAYS, HE WOULD PONDER LIFE
BASED ON ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATIONS THEREOF,
SO THAT BY SUNDAY HE WOULD BE SUFFICIENTLY OFF HIS NORMAL MENTAL BALANCE AS TO HAVE SOME FRESH AND ACTUALLY USEFUL. INSIGHTS.
ONE SCHOOL FOR OUR SORT HAD A FIGHT SONG:
“KEEP IT UP, KEEP IT UP,
YEAH, YEAH:
KEEP IT UP, KEEP IT UP,
‘TIL YOU KNOW WHEN TO QUIT.”
MORAL: MORE PEOPLE HAVE LOST THE GAME BY THE TOO EARLY BELIEF THAT THEY HAVE WON THAN HAVE EVER LOST BY NEVER HAVING THOUGHT ABOUT WINNING OR LOSING,
RELATED HINT: DON’T JUST KEEP YOUR “EYE ON THE BALL: ON THE GOAL, ON THE PRIZE: KEEP YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS OFF OF IT AS WELL. …ALL YOU’LL GET FROM THAT IS, “CONFUSED”.
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A MAN SAID TO A MYSTIC: “SOME TIMES I THINK THAT YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT.”, AND THE MYSTIC SAID: “MANY TIMES I KNOW THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU’RE LISTENING TO.”
YOU WOULD DO WELL TO ABANDON SUCH TERMS AS, “SOME TIMES”, AND, “IN THE PAST I COULD”, OR, “I HOPE THAT SOME DAY SOON” INTHAT THEY REPRESENT NOTHING OTHER THAN THE SOUND THEY MAKE, THERE IS NO TIME BUT. NOW AND ALL AREAS OF YOUR BRAIN, SAVE THE DREAMY LOBES, KNOW THIS.
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A SCIENTIST, UPON HEARING A MYSTIC DESCRIBE THE STATE HE_CALLS,, “BEING ASLEEP” SAID TO HM_”YOUR PROBLEM IS THAT YOUR FRONTAL LOBES SPEND TOO MUCH OF THEIR SPARE TIME IN MEANINGLESS REFLECTION ON THEIR OWN MEANINGLESS SPARE TIME ACTIVITY.”
AFTER HEARING A MYSTIC’S DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE STRUGGLE TO AWAKEN, A SCIENTIST OBSERVED: “HOW CAN A HORSE RUN AHEAD OF ITSELF?!,
HOW CAN A BIRD FLY ABOVE ITSELF?!,
AND HOW CAN A MAN POSSIBLY BE BETTER THAN WHAT HE ALREADY IS?!”
ONE BOY HAD A MOTHER WHO WAS A MYSTIC AND A FATHER WHO WAS A SCIENTIST, AND FOR MANY YEARS HE PREFERED THE WORDS OF HIS MOTHER REGARDING THE NATURE OF LIFE AND MAN OVER HIS FATHER’S —
BUT EVENTUALLY REACHED A STAGE WHERE HE COULD SCARE TOLERATE HIS MOTHER’S ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THINGS WHEN THEY WERE NOT DIRECTLY SUPPORTED BY HIS FATHER’S SCIENTIFIC ONES,
HE HAD FOUND FOR HIMSELF — THE PROPER BALANCE,
THE BEAUTY OF A THOUSAND YEAR OLD MYSTICAL POEM CANNOT BE IMPROVED, OR UPDATED IN ANY WAY BY MAN’S INTERVENING SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS, WHILE THE FACTS, OF SCIENCE THEMSELVES ARE CONTINUALLY EXPANDED, AND REFINED, BUT HAVE NO METAPHYSICAL SIGNIFICANCE,
TO THOSE WHO KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON: TWO PLUS TWO, NO MATTER THE DIVERSE BACKGROUND OF THE TWOS, ALWAYS EQUALS THEIR PHYSICAL SUM. …THERE IS* WAY, NOT EVEN MYSTICALLY, AROUND THIS,
ONE FATHER SO ADVISED A SON:
“LOOK UPON THE EVENTS OUTSIDE YOU — ALLEGORICALLY, AND UPON THOSE INSIDE YOU — PHYSIOLOGICALLY.”
THE FEW WHO KNOW HOW TO USE THE DESIRE & STRUGGLE FOR ENLIGHTENMENT TO ACTUALLY ACHIEVE SOMETHING ARE LIKE A RELENTLESS BAND OF MARUADERS WHO CONSTANTLY, ANEW, ATTACK THE ENCIRCLED WAGONS, AND WHO USE AS THE MARUADERS,
THE ENCIRCLED WAGONS,
FAILURE IS THE REWARD OF THE NON-RELENTLESS.
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A CREATURE MUST HAVE FRONTAL LOBE CONSCIOUSNESS TO BE SERIOUS,
AND A CREATURE MUST BE CAPABLE OF SERIOUSNESS TO THINK THAT
BEING ALIVE HAS A PURPOSE,
AND A CREATURE MUST THINK THAT BEING ALIVE HAS A PURPOSE
OR IT WILL NOT TAKE BEING ALIVE SERIOUSLY,
AND IF A CREATURE DOES NOT TAKE BEING ALIVE SERIOUSLY
IT WILL NEVER COME TO THE IDEA THAT IT IS NOT PROPERLY CONSCIOUS.
…WHICH I BELIEVE?!
TAKES US BACK SOME WHERE CLOSE TO WHERE WE BEGAN (?!?!) NO?!?!
FACT: IT REQUIRES A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF INTELLIGENCE IN A CREATURE FOR IT TO CONCEIVE OF ITSELF AS DUMB. QUESSTION: WHAT’S THE POINT?!
THERE WAS A MAN WHO MANY MYSTICS, FOR MANY YEARS, REFERED TO AS,
“THE SMARTEST MAN ALIVE”, A COMMENT TOWHICH THE MAN NEVER RESPONDED,
UNTIL ONE DAY, WHEN HIS HAIR WAS SUFFICIENTLY GREY AND FACE, SUITABLY
WRINKLED, SOME ONE AGAIN MADE THE OBSERVATION THAT HE. SURELY WAS,
“THE SMARTEST MAN ALIVE.”, AND HE FINALLY RESPONDED BY SAYING:
“NO, I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT AFTER MANY YEARS IN THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE
AND INTELLIGENCE I AM NOW QUITE LIKELY, THE DUMBEST MAN ALIVE.”,
…(A STATEMENT, BY THE WAY, THAT I JUST”HAPPEN TO KNOW” THAT
HE DID NOT MEAN METAPHORICALLY.
HE SAID WHAT HE MEANT, AND MEANT WHAT HE SAID.)
ONLY HE WHO IS HELPLESS IS TOTALLY AWAKE.
IN THE PHYSICAL REALM: BEING IS BEING,
WHILE IN THE NON-PHYSICAL ONE, KNOWING SEEMS TO EQUAL BEING…SEEMS TO.
TO BE ENLIGHTENED YOU MUST BE HELPLESS.
…. SEE, IT’S STARTIN’ TO COME TOGETHER: (AS ALREADY NOTED): “FAILURE IS THE REWARD OF THE NON-RELENTLESS”;
BE HELPLESS, AND BE RELENTLESSLY SO.
THOSE NOT RELENTLESS IN THIS REGARD WILL STAY FOREVER,
KNOWLEDGABLE AND SMART, AND THUS, DAZED AND CONFUSED.
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QUESTION:”WHY DON’T THOSE TRULY STRUGGLING TO AWAKEN EVER GO CRAZY?” ANSWER: THEY KEEP SUCH A CONSTANT EYE ON THEIR CONSCIOUSNESS THAT IT NEVER HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO.
FOLLOW-UP ENQUIRY: JUST WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF TRYING TO AWAKEN?
RESPONSE: LIONS GOTTA HUNT,
GOPHERS GOTTA HIDE,
YOU’RE BETTER OFF WITH YOUR NATURE ON YOUR SIDE.
QUESTION: “I DON’T SEE THAT AS A RELEVANT RESPONSE TO MY QUESTION?!” ANSWER: WELL, THAT’S YOUR NATURE.
HAWKS GOTTA SOAR, SHARKS GOTTA DIVE,
TRESS GOTTA DO WHAT — TREES GOTTA DO,
— AND SO DO YOU. YO0 WHOO!
OBSERVATION: JUST BECAUSE SOME ELEPHANT HERE AND THERE DECIDES IT WANTS TO PLAY THE SOUSAPHONE
OFFERS NO BASIS FOR YOU BELIEVING THAT SOME DAY SOON YOU’LL SEE PACHYDERMS BRINGING UP THE BACK ROW EN A MARCHING BAND.
FACT: FRONTAL LOBES, EN THEIR SPARE TIME, ARE UNLIMITED EN WHAT THEY CAN SAY. THEY WANT,
FIRST RULE FOR AN INTERVIEWER: TALK MORE THAN THE ONE YOU’RE INTERVIEWING. THIS MESSAGE WAS BROUGHT TO YOU D:ERECTLY BY THE FRONTAL LOBES -BY-PASSING OLDER, MORE BASIC BRAIN INSTINCTS.
THE RALLYING CRY OF THE FRONTAL LOBES:
“HIDE NOT YOUR FRONTAL LOBES UNDER A BUSHEL BASKET — OR ANY OTHER AREAS
OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
STAND TALL: ANNOUNCE TO THE WORLD: ‘IT IS I — ME IN PERSON! —
IN THE FLESH, (‘CEPT I CAN’T ACTUALLY “COME OUT” AND SHOW MYSELF….
I’M MORE OR LESS, KINDA STUCK HERE JUST INSIDE THIS GUY’S SKULL —
BUT DON”T YOU WORRY ABOUT IT — NO SER-REE, ‘CAUSE
I’M RIGHT CHEER….ALL THE TIME….COUNT ON IT. BYE NOW.”
FERST VIEW: A MAN WHO TALKS TO HIMSELF HAS A GREAT CONVERSATIONAL PARTNER. SECOND VIEW: A MAN WHO BELIEVES THAT HE, “TALKS TO HIMSELF”HASN’T GOTA CLUE AS Tn WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON INSIDE HIS OWN BODY AND BRAIN.
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UNDER ROUTINE CONDITIONS, CONSCIOUSNESS IN A MAN IS LIKE A WHIRLPOOL IN A TROUBLED SEA,
WHILE TO BECOME REALIZED, CONSCIOUSNESS SHOULD BE LIKE A WHIRLPOOL IN CALM WATERS.
SEE THE CALM WATERS NATURALLY SURROUNDING CONSCIOUSNESS, AND AFTER THAT
WHAT CONSCIOUSNESS DOES IN ITS SPARE TIME IS OF NO SIGNIFICANCE TO YOU.
LET BIRDS FLY, LET SNAILS CRAWL,
LET FLOWERS BLOOM, AND LET CONSCIOUSNESS BE.
LET THOSE WHO WANT TO BE CALM “AROUND CONSCIOUSNESS” – BE SO.
A MAN WHO IS “ON THE MOVE” SOLELY DUE TO BEING DRAGGED ALONG BY HIS. CONSCIOUSNESS
WILL NEVER HAVE HIS OWN NEEDED, “FREE TIME” TO EVER FULLY REALIZE WHAT THIS WHOLE AFFAIR IS REALLY ALL ABOUT.
TO EVER SEE WHAT’S GOING ON, YOU HAVE TO BE HELPLESS, BUT YOU CANNOT BE PROPERLY HELPLESS WHEN YOU’RE “TOO BUSY”
BUSY, BUSY, BUSY: BUSY, BUSY, BUSY.
HINT: THOSE WHO STAY “TOO BUSY” DO SO IN PART
IN THEIR FUTILE ATTEMPTS NOT TO BE — HELPLESS.
BUSY, BUSY, BUSY:
FUTILE, FUTILE, FUTILE.
A LITTLE HISTORY: BUDDHA STARTED OUT WANT[NG TO DIG A HOLE TO CHINA, AND ENDED UP STARING INTO A HOLE WHOSE DESTINATION AND PURPOSE NO ONE COULD FATHOM.
…AS THE SPARROW SAID AFTER FINALLY FLYING OUT OF THE TORNADO: “BLIND,AND HELPLESS, I WENT IN, AND IN LIKE CONDITION, RETURNED.”
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ONE SCIENTIST WHO HAPPENED TO HEAR A MYSTIC’S LECTURE CONCERNING THE “GRAND EFFORT TO AWAKEN CONSCIOUSNESS”, LATER SAID:
“WHAT SUCH PEOPLE WANT IS TO:’STAND-ON-THEIR-OWN-SHOULDERS’–
…A FEAT, (I MUST ADMIT), I’D GO OUT OF MY WAY TO SEE PERFORMED.”
AND A CERTAIN FATHER ONCE AGAIN REMINDED HIS SON: “LOOK UPON WHAT OCCURS OUTSIDE OF YOU — ALLEGORICALLY,
AND UPON WHAT OCCURS INSIDE OF YOU — PHYSIOLOGICALLY, PERIOD!.
A MYSTIC WHO IS NO SCIENTIST
WILL FOREVER REMAIN JUST — A MYSTIC.
(WHICH IS INSUFFICIENT TO GET THE FINAL JOB DONE.)”
A MAN ASKED ONE WHO WAS REALIZED:
“IF YOUR WISH IS TO AWAKEN,
WHAT COULD BE WORSE TO :BE ON YOUR MIND THAN HATRED FOR SOMEONE
AND WANTING TO HARM THEM?”,
AND THE ONE WHO KNEW REPLIED:
“ANYTHING TO DO WITH WANTING TO AWAKEN.”
:..AND NOW I REMIND YOU: TO FINISH UP THE JOB, YOU GOTTA BE HELPLESS. …(COURSE EVERYONE DOES UNDERSTAND THAT YOU’VE GOTTA KNOW WHAT “HELPLESS” MEANS EN THIS CONTEXT.)
IN REGARD TO THE MYSTIC’S ETERNAL “SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH”,
PLUG IN THIS SCIENTIFIC FACT:
CONSCIOUSNESS CAN’T “LIE” TO YOU,
AT BEST ALL THAT CAN BE SAID IS THAT IT CAN “DECEIVE ITSELF”,
AND EVEN THAT DOESN’T AMOUNT TO ANYTHING -7 _UNLESS
YOU’RE ONE OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT THEIR CONSCIOUSNESS CAN LIE TO THEM.
CONSCIOUSNESS SEES WHAT IT SEES….EVEN IF NOTHING IS THERE, AND CONSCIOUSNESS HEARS WHAT IT HEARS…EVEN IF NO SOUND IS PRESENT, AND CONSCIOUSNESS THINKS WHATEVER CROSSES ITS THRESHOLD OF EXCITATION, AND FOR YOU TO TAKE IT PERSONALLY, OR TO BE OF ANY SIGNIFICANCE IS TO STAY FRUSTRATED AND CONFUSED AS TO WHAT’S ACTUALLY GOING ON, AND WHAT THE ACHIEVABLE GOAL OF THIS KIND OF ACTIVITY REALLY AMOUNTS TO.
NO ONE “LIES” TO MAN SAVE THAT WHICH TELLS MEN THAT THEY ARE LIED TO.
A MAN WHO KNOWS IS HELPLESS: HE CANNOT HELP WHAT HE HEARS: HE CANNOT HELP WHAT HE SEES, AND HE CANNOT HELP WHAT HE THINKS. HE IS HELPLESS, I TELL YOU.
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AND A VOICE SMEARED WITH SUSPICION ASKS:
“DO I REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN BY ‘HELPLESS’?!?”
ANSWER: YES YOU DO, IF YOU WANT TO GET PAST YOUR PRESENT PLACE OF UNDERSTANDING,
..AND THE VOICE WAS QUIET FOR A MOMENT, APPARENTLY PONDERING MY REPLY,
THEN FINALLY ASKED ANOTHER QUESTION:
“BUT ISN’T_BEING”HELPLESS’ THE OPPOSITE OF ‘UNDERSTANDING’?!”
ANSWER: NO, BUT IT IS AN INTRIGUING ILLUSION;
THOSE WHO THINK THAT THEY “KNOW” ANYTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE
ARE IN. PART THEREBY, ATTEMPTING TO DISTRACT AND TO FOOL THEMSELVES
INTO BELIEVING THAT THEY ARE NOT IN FACT — HELPLESS.
AS FAR AS CONSCIOUSNESS IS CONCERNED IN ITS SPARE TIME ACTIVITIES, THINKING THAT IT’S NOT HELPLESS IS THE SAME THING AS NOT BEING HELPLESS, …WHICH IS THE SAME THING AS BEING HELPLESS BUT WHILE THINKING THAT YOU ARE NOT HELPLESS,
…WHICH TO CONSCIOUSNESS IS AS GOOD AS NOT ACTUALLY BEING HELPLESS,
I WOULD BE INCLINED TO NOW ASK THE QUESTIONER IF HE UNDERSTANDS WHAT I
HAVE JUST DESCRIBED, BUT FEARING THAT HE’D MERELY RESPOND FROM CONSCIOUSNESS, I’LL NOT WASTE MY TIME.
NOTE: DAY DREAMING IS ABLE TO RUN MUCH SMOOTHER IF IT USES THE
VOCABULARY OF ALLEGORY RATHER THAN THAT OF PHYSICAL FACTS.
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ONE FATHER SO ADVISED A SON,
“ALL OF OUR BEHAVIOR. HAS,A PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS,
AND SO TOO DOES A SUBSTANTIAL PART OF OUR INTELLECTUAL ,& EMOTIONAL LIVES.”, AND NOT BELIEVING WHAT HE’D JUST HEARD, THE LAD EXCLAIMED, INCREDULOUSLY:
“‘A SUBSTANTIAL PART’?!?!”,
AND THE OLD MAN SLAPPED HIS THIGH AND WHOOPED: “THAT’S MY BOY!”
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THE TWO MAJOR APPROACHES TO DOING THIS THING: ONE, MAJOR AND WITH MANY SUPPORTERS, THE OTHER, MAJOR, BUT WITH FEW WHO SPEAK A GOOD WORD FOR IT (ANYWAY): THE TWO MAJOR APPROACHES TO DOING THIS THING: “EVER MINDFUL”,
AND, “NEVER MINDFUL”.
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ONE MAN DISCOVERED THAT HE COULD NOT HOLD DOWN HIS RIGHT THUMB
AND KEEP IT STILL, USING HIS RIGHT THUMB TO DO SO AT LEAST NOT FOR
LONG PERIODS OF TIME. (I WONDER WHAT A SCIENTIST_ WOULD MAKE OF THIS?!?)
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PURSUANT HIS DESIRE TO BECOME A GREAT SWORDSMAN,
A YOUNG MAN NAME OF LIN YOO APPRENTICED HIMSELF TO AN OLD MAN CONSIDERED TO BE THE GRAND MASTER OF THEM ALL,
AND AFTER MANY YEARS OF RIGOROUS TRAINING THE DAY CAME WHEN THE OLD MAN COULD NO LONGER DEFEAT LIN WHO WHEN THEY FOUGHT.
THEN FOR TWO WEEKS THEY SAT SILENTLY, LOOKING AT ONE ANOTHER,
‘TIL ON THE FIFTEENTH DAY THE OLD GRAND MASTER SPOKE:
“YOU NOW KNOW ALL THAT I KNOW, BUT THAT IS NOT ALL THERE. IS TO KNOW.
LAM BUT A MASTER SWORDSMAN, BUT HIGH UP IN THE MOUNTAINS IS ONE
WHO IS NOT ONLY THAT, BUT SOMETHING ELSE, INDESCRIBABLE AS WELL,
HIS ABILITY IS SUPERIOR TO YOURS AND MINE COMBINED,
GO NOW AND STUDY WITH HIM.
ULTIMATELY YOU WILL NOT NEED YOUR SWORD, BUT TAKE IT WITH YOU.”
LIN YOO WAS MOMENTARILY STUNNED WITH DISBELIEF AT THE OLD MASTER’S WORDS, BUT HIS PRIDE…OR CURIOSITY, (OR SOMETHING), GOT THE BETTER OFF HIM, AND STRAPPING ON HIS SWORD, OFF HE WENT UP INTO THE MOUNTAINS,
TOWARD THE DESIGNATED PEAK, WHOSE SUMMIT NO ONE HAD EVER SCALED,
FOR TEN YEARS, LIN YOOWAS GONE — THEN ONE DAY, WITHOUT HIS SWORD, BACK INTO THE VILLAGE HE WALKED AND WENT STRAIGHT TO THE GRAND.
MASTER’S HOUSE, AND AS SOON AS HE SAW LIN YOO’S FACE THE OLD MAN ANNOUNCED THAT THE WORLD NOW HAD A NEW GRAND MASTER,
AND QUICKLY THE WORD SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE LAND THAT LIN Y00 WAS THE GREATEST SWORDSMAN OF THEM ALL,
BUT FROM THAT DAY FORTH, LIN YOO NEVER AGAIN CARRIED A SWORD, OR EVEN MENTIONED THE WEAPON, AND IN FACT HAD QUITE LITTLE TO SAY ON ANY SUBJECT. …’TIL SOME TEN YEARS LATER AS LIN YOO ONE DAY PASSED A MAN ON THE ROAD WHO WAS WEARING A SWORD, AND POINTED TO IT AND ASKED: “WHAT IS THAT?”, AND THE MAN, RECOGNIZING LIN YOO AND KNOWING OF HIS WORLD WIDE REPUTATION ASSUMED HE WAS KIDDING, BUT LIN YOO PERSISTED, POINTING TO THE SWORD, AND SAYING: “IT SEEMS VAGUELY FAMILIAR TO ME…BUT WHAT IS ITS PURPOSE?”, AND WHEN WORD OF THIS OCCURRENCE GOT AROUND, AND PEOPLE HEARD THAT LIN YOO, THE GRAND MASTER OF ALL SWORDSMAN NO LONGER EVEN REMEMBERED THE PURPOSE OF A SWORD, THEY REALIZED EVEN MORE THAN BEFORE THAT,- INDEED
HE WAS THE GRANDEST MASTER OF THEM ALL.
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AS THE STORY SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM,
ARTISTS WERE SEEN, BURNING THEIR BRUSHES:
MUSICIANS, ABANDONING THEIR INSTRUMENTS,
WRITERS, BREAKING THEIR PENS,
(AND A FEW SPIRITUAL LEADERS WERE EVEN ALLEGED TO HAVE
TAKEN LIP GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT.)
AFTER EVERYTHING’S BEEN SAID AND• DONE, IT’S„GONNA TURN OUT THAT:
A LOT GOT SAID,
AND VERY LITTLE ACTUALLY DONE.
OF COURSE, DO IN’ JUST THAT, “ONE-LITTLE-THING” I S WHAT MAKES ALL DIFFERENCE
IN YOUR LIFE.