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Heady and Hearty Snack Banquet

The Devil's Advice to Story-Tellers
Robert Graves

Lest men [sic] suspect your tale to be untrue,
Keep probability—some say—in view.
But my advice to story-tellers is:
Weigh out no gross of probabilities,
Nor yet make diligent transcriptions of
Known instances of virtue, crime or love.
To forge a picture that will pass for true,
Do conscientiously what liars do—
Born liars, not the lesser sort that raid
The mouths of others for their stock-in-trade:
Assemble, first, all casual bits and scraps
That may shake down into a world perhaps;
People this world, by chance created so,
With random persons whom you do not know—
The teashop sort, or travelers in a train


 

Seen once, guessed idly at, not seen again;
Let the erratic course they steer surprise
Their own and your own and your readers' eyes;
Sigh then, or frown, but leave (as in despair)
Motive and end and moral in the air;
Nice contradiction between fact and fact
Will make the whole read human and exact.

Extraordinary Discourse 070 Special: The World Owes You A Living 6

Extraordinary Discourse 070 Special: The World Owes You A Living 6
59.38 minutes

Today's Extraordinary Discourse Special is Episode 6, the final episode of The World Owes You A Living suite, a 6-part Millennial Associational Documentary.

Finale. Here we employ our leisure to step out from the Hades of today's work world to survey the broad prospect. What news from the islands? We hear overarching philosophical and deep poetical views, we harken back to Athens and consider the freedom from livelihood they considered a self-evident requirement for citizenship. We recall the great drama of the soul, responding to the Sufi Khidr (guide), "man of bright prospects, leave your work and meet me at the riverside."



Hey-- We're People!
16 Seminal Quotations
3rd And Last Stage Of Emancipation
Veridical Visions
Liberal Arts
Radiant Aliveness
The Joy Of Not Working
What Are You Living For?

Lao Tzu: "Heaven prefers no-one,
but the sensible person prefers heaven."

Jack Saturday 's The World Owes You a Living is like the wonderful audio
montage artistry of a Firesign Theater or a Ken Nordine, but with a
discernable political point. Highly recommended.
James J. Hughes PhD,
producer, Changesurfer Radio; Executive Director, Institute for Ethicsand Emerging Technologies

"I have listened to The World Owes You a Living over and over again. The CDs deftly strip away the many layers of brittle toxic and dangerous lies told to us about the nature of work. The hundreds of clips of interviews, news stories and commentary are arranged in a way that the CDs are a pleasure and not an effort to listen to. Anyone who wants to know why society is f…ked should check these out. If you can’t afford to buy them for yourself, find some   friends to share the cost or ask your local library to buy them."
C. L'Hirondelle
Founding member of Livable Income For Everyone (LIFE) society and coordinator of the Victoria Status of Women Action Group



Episode 1 is here
Episode 2 is here
Episode 3 is here.
Episode 4 is here
Episode 5 is here.

 

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Deeper Current
Affairs




What Joyce did to prose and Pound did to poetry, in my opinion, made those arts contemporary with both quantum physics and the films I liked. They had broken linear order into luminous fragments--quanta--which they reassembled into synergetic wholes--like a Bucky Fuller design... to read them involved stepping outside subject-predicate order into the modes of thought you find in differential calculus or in the montages of directors like Wells, Eisenstein, Kurasawa.
Robert Anton Wilson

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Speil Macht Frei




…very civic and public yearnings - the notion that an 'emergent democracy' might come to fruition, through some orchestration of the many articulate voices now expressing themselves through social software, like blogging and affinity networks, Wikipedia and open source. I very much hope that the rhetorics and justifications for more playful forms of life outlined by this book are taken up by these digital constituencies, and 'hacked' into better, worse or at least more interesting shapes by their passionate engagements. 'We are an enterprise of mortals, disdaining to protect ourselves against surprise; living in the strength of our vision, we eschew power and make joyous play of boundaries.' Amen to that, brother Carse.
Pat Kane,
The Play Ethic

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Interlocking Conversation Pieces



Try these lenses. Come to the irreverent multilogue.