And if to withstand this nocturnal pollution of the tiny wanton stars with bent hook clauses of misprision I’m supposed to sing the melody of an unexpecting part. . .
Posting 50+ links, all but a few clusterfuckful, on the last Saturday of June in the middle of the Blog Days of Summer a massive Fuck Me in futility, earnestly desired and justly deserved. This is how I process, and to process more I need dump what I've processed. It's not the pings: 999 of 1000 pings I currently get are bots, dozens of bots, thousands of pings a day - I hope you're still here but I'm not scrolling the logs to see if yes and if yes who - it's readying myself for in increasingly inevitable and rapidly approaching moment when I may need to protest with more of my body than my typing fingers (though a few continually warn me my typing fingers are sufficient to get the rest of my body punished). Here, this is for the surveillance bots: yes, Kate Bush has one of two permanent seats in My Sillyass Deserted Island Five Game and the single *Babooshka* of her brilliant third album *Never for Ever* was released 45 years ago yesterday
The Israeli genocide of Palestinians continues, yo
"Thus, the bankruptcy of the European ‘West’ was compounded, and the industrial mass murder of the Jews ‘repaired’, through an impossible political arrangement: Israel. Shlomo Sand offers the brutal summary: ‘Europe vomited us, the Jews, onto the Arabs of Palestine.’"
What Zohran Mamdani Means for the Anti-Monopoly Movement
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"Most elections are conflicts over who will run an existing system, with the candidates offering tweaks to what is essentially a stable political order. But a few elections are what I will call “system defining,” where a rising coalition, reflecting a new set of political demands, contests with an old order, seeking to re-gear the basics of how our institutions operate"
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani (Motherfucking New York Democratic Senator edition)
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"Mamdani won a higher % of votes from Jewish NYers than from many other ethnic or religious demographics, won the endorsement of Lander & Nadler. It seems the bourgeois press will not stop until Jews conform to their Zionist, Islamophobic narrative. This shit is tired"
That Democrats en masse aren't screaming about masked goons refusing to show badge or give name and disappearing people to South Sudan is all you need know about Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani, who is not going to save you
"When he decided to inflict his presence on New York City again, centrist Democrats lined up to support him. Democrats who’d called for his resignation a few years earlier told voters he would be a great mayor. The logic was transparent: Give the bastard a second chance so the left doesn’t get one at all"
"Between the expulsion of Hogg and the freakout over Mamdani, it seems Dems are responding to their problem with young men by saying "fuck you, we don't need your votes." Which is really an interesting strategy. We'll see how it works out"
"one of the projects of the court is to expand the ability of states to pursue reactionary ends and constrain the ability of the federal government to set minimum standards *or* of democratic-led states to expand upon existing rights"
"Clinton made Summers his Russia viceroy overseeing Yeltsin's catastrophic neoliberal reforms—resulting in rise of Putinism. Then Obama put Summers in charge of the US economy—giving us Trumpism. Nothing is more destructive than Larry Summers' advice"
Inside The Secretive Network that Shaped the Right-Wing Media Machine
"The guy who authored the majority opinion in Citizens United v. FEC and opened the floodgates for infinite dark money in politics wants us all to know that "freedom is at risk." No shit Sherlock. You're the one to blame."
Reading a great deal out there, I see lots of kindred takes, and much I hadn't considered -- but don't post on my own Blog ogg ogg, because someone else already said it and no matter how much I'm compelled to write (BlueSky posts, a Journal; funky novel attempt) I haven't gotten to the stage where Adding One More Voice to the obvious seems necessary. And I read the last stanza in the Notley above and say, Yep; makes sense, there. Be well.
1/zanesville, ohio's most famous former citizen is zane grey, author of
Riders of the Purple Sage first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time"
The story is told by an omniscient narrator reporting the characters' actions and thoughts, for example: "On this night the same old loneliness beset Venters..." [end of quote from Wikipedia]
the novelist's birth name was pearl zane gray, and he was, for a few years, a dentist in new york city
2/another noted novel with a dentist author:
The Yacoubian Building (Arabic: عمارة يعقوبيان ‘Imārat Ya‘qūbyān) is a novel by Egyptian author Alaa-Al-Aswany. The book was made into a film of the same name in 2006 and into a TV series in 2007.
Published in Arabic in 2002 and in an English translation in 2004, the book, ostensibly set in 1990 at about the time of the first Gulf War, is a roman à clef and scathing portrayal of modern Egyptian society since the Revolution of 1952. The locale of the novel is downtown Cairo, with the titular apartment building (which actually exists) serving as both a metaphor for contemporary Egypt and a unifying location in which most of the primary characters either live or work and in which much of the novel's action takes place. The author, a dentist by profession, had his first office in the Yacoubian Building in Cairo.
The Yacoubian Building was the best-selling Arabic novel for 2002 and 2003, and was voted Best Novel for 2003 by listeners to Egypt's Middle East Broadcasting Service. It has been translated into 23 languages.
On the roof of the ten-story building are fifty small rooms (one for each apartment), no more than two meters by two meters in area, which were originally used as storage areas and not as living quarters for human beings, but after wealthy residents began moving from downtown Cairo to suburbs such as Medinet Nasr and Mohandessin in the 1970s, the rooms were gradually taken over by overwhelmingly poor migrants from the Egyptian countryside, arriving in Cairo in the hopes of finding employment. The rooftop community, effectively a slum neighborhood, is symbolic of the urbanization of Egypt and of the burgeoning population growth in its large cities in recent decades, especially among the poor and working classes.
[end of quote from Wikipedia]
3/everything is a tv show is another way of saying "the world is made of stories" - substantially true, for us talking apes - and yet also, on the other hand, the biophysical substrate within which we live and move and have our being is made of energy and atoms
as was pointed out by pioneering experimental psychophysiologist, and metaphysical philosopher, gustav fechner, of all miracles, the greatest is that anything exists at all
in response to a request from a user, excerpts from what a plagiarism machine produced:
Below is a selection of musical works across time and genre that might be described as "panentheistic" in spirit, if not always in doctrine.
### 🎶 **Popular, Folk, and World Traditions**
#### **Broadway / Tin Pan Alley**
* **Rodgers & Hammerstein – *Climb Every Mountain* (from *The Sound of Music*)**
* The metaphor of striving as sacred—finding divine purpose in human perseverance.
* **Yip Harburg & Harold Arlen – *Over the Rainbow***
* A secular yearning, but one that touches the divine through wonder and possibility.
#### **Rock and Folk**
* **George Harrison / The Beatles – *Within You Without You***
* Explicitly draws on Hindu philosophy and Sufi themes—unity, ego-dissolution, the divine in all.
* **Van Morrison – *Into the Mystic*** and *In the Garden*\*\*
* A fusion of Celtic spirituality and soul—Morrison often channels mystical union and divine imminence.
* **Pink Floyd – *Echoes***
* A sonic exploration of interconnection and deep inner space that gestures toward a transcendent oneness.
* **U2 – *Yahweh*, *Magnificent***
* Contemporary spiritual yearning, invoking a God who is both within and beyond.
#### **Gospel and Blues**
* **Blind Willie Johnson – *Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground***
* Wordless lamentation as a spiritual act—pain and divinity fused.
* **Sam Cooke – *A Change Is Gonna Come***
* A protest and prayer in one—deeply grounded yet reaching for the eternal.
#### **Sufi & Bollywood**
* **Qawwali – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (e.g., *Allah Hoo*, *Khawaja Mere Khawaja*)**
* This devotional music embodies panentheism, channeling divine intoxication and unity through music and voice.
* **A.R. Rahman – *Khwaja Mere Khwaja* (from *Jodhaa Akbar*)**
* Mystical adoration in a Bollywood context—deeply Sufi, invoking presence and transcendence in melody and rhythm.
#### **World / Indigenous Music**
* **Gamelan music of Bali**
* Intricately structured, collective music that evokes a cosmic order—often part of temple ceremony.
* **West African drumming and chant (e.g., Yoruba or Ewe traditions)**
* Music is prayer, trance, and embodiment of spirit—panentheism enacted through rhythm and ritual.
---
### 📜 Summary Reflection
Panentheism is not necessarily doctrinal—it’s often felt in *how* the music opens the listener to a sense of awe, interconnection, and mystery. Across cultures and centuries, many composers and musicians seem to intuit or express a divine that is **both here and beyond**—a shimmering presence in sound.
Reading a great deal out there, I see lots of kindred takes, and much I hadn't considered -- but don't post on my own Blog ogg ogg, because someone else already said it and no matter how much I'm compelled to write (BlueSky posts, a Journal; funky novel attempt) I haven't gotten to the stage where Adding One More Voice to the obvious seems necessary. And I read the last stanza in the Notley above and say, Yep; makes sense, there. Be well.
ReplyDelete1/zanesville, ohio's most famous former citizen is zane grey, author of
ReplyDeleteRiders of the Purple Sage first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time"
The story is told by an omniscient narrator reporting the characters' actions and thoughts, for example: "On this night the same old loneliness beset Venters..." [end of quote from Wikipedia]
the novelist's birth name was pearl zane gray, and he was, for a few years, a dentist in new york city
2/another noted novel with a dentist author:
The Yacoubian Building (Arabic: عمارة يعقوبيان ‘Imārat Ya‘qūbyān) is a novel by Egyptian author Alaa-Al-Aswany. The book was made into a film of the same name in 2006 and into a TV series in 2007.
Published in Arabic in 2002 and in an English translation in 2004, the book, ostensibly set in 1990 at about the time of the first Gulf War, is a roman à clef and scathing portrayal of modern Egyptian society since the Revolution of 1952. The locale of the novel is downtown Cairo, with the titular apartment building (which actually exists) serving as both a metaphor for contemporary Egypt and a unifying location in which most of the primary characters either live or work and in which much of the novel's action takes place. The author, a dentist by profession, had his first office in the Yacoubian Building in Cairo.
The Yacoubian Building was the best-selling Arabic novel for 2002 and 2003, and was voted Best Novel for 2003 by listeners to Egypt's Middle East Broadcasting Service. It has been translated into 23 languages.
On the roof of the ten-story building are fifty small rooms (one for each apartment), no more than two meters by two meters in area, which were originally used as storage areas and not as living quarters for human beings, but after wealthy residents began moving from downtown Cairo to suburbs such as Medinet Nasr and Mohandessin in the 1970s, the rooms were gradually taken over by overwhelmingly poor migrants from the Egyptian countryside, arriving in Cairo in the hopes of finding employment. The rooftop community, effectively a slum neighborhood, is symbolic of the urbanization of Egypt and of the burgeoning population growth in its large cities in recent decades, especially among the poor and working classes.
[end of quote from Wikipedia]
3/everything is a tv show is another way of saying "the world is made of stories" - substantially true, for us talking apes - and yet also, on the other hand, the biophysical substrate within which we live and move and have our being is made of energy and atoms
as was pointed out by pioneering experimental psychophysiologist, and metaphysical philosopher, gustav fechner, of all miracles, the greatest is that anything exists at all
cf. the last rites of bokononism
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/a7zdnv/the_bokononism_death_ritual/
in response to a request from a user, excerpts from what a plagiarism machine produced:
ReplyDeleteBelow is a selection of musical works across time and genre that might be described as "panentheistic" in spirit, if not always in doctrine.
### 🎶 **Popular, Folk, and World Traditions**
#### **Broadway / Tin Pan Alley**
* **Rodgers & Hammerstein – *Climb Every Mountain* (from *The Sound of Music*)**
* The metaphor of striving as sacred—finding divine purpose in human perseverance.
* **Yip Harburg & Harold Arlen – *Over the Rainbow***
* A secular yearning, but one that touches the divine through wonder and possibility.
#### **Rock and Folk**
* **George Harrison / The Beatles – *Within You Without You***
* Explicitly draws on Hindu philosophy and Sufi themes—unity, ego-dissolution, the divine in all.
* **Van Morrison – *Into the Mystic*** and *In the Garden*\*\*
* A fusion of Celtic spirituality and soul—Morrison often channels mystical union and divine imminence.
* **Pink Floyd – *Echoes***
* A sonic exploration of interconnection and deep inner space that gestures toward a transcendent oneness.
* **U2 – *Yahweh*, *Magnificent***
* Contemporary spiritual yearning, invoking a God who is both within and beyond.
#### **Gospel and Blues**
* **Blind Willie Johnson – *Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground***
* Wordless lamentation as a spiritual act—pain and divinity fused.
* **Sam Cooke – *A Change Is Gonna Come***
* A protest and prayer in one—deeply grounded yet reaching for the eternal.
#### **Sufi & Bollywood**
* **Qawwali – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (e.g., *Allah Hoo*, *Khawaja Mere Khawaja*)**
* This devotional music embodies panentheism, channeling divine intoxication and unity through music and voice.
* **A.R. Rahman – *Khwaja Mere Khwaja* (from *Jodhaa Akbar*)**
* Mystical adoration in a Bollywood context—deeply Sufi, invoking presence and transcendence in melody and rhythm.
#### **World / Indigenous Music**
* **Gamelan music of Bali**
* Intricately structured, collective music that evokes a cosmic order—often part of temple ceremony.
* **West African drumming and chant (e.g., Yoruba or Ewe traditions)**
* Music is prayer, trance, and embodiment of spirit—panentheism enacted through rhythm and ritual.
---
### 📜 Summary Reflection
Panentheism is not necessarily doctrinal—it’s often felt in *how* the music opens the listener to a sense of awe, interconnection, and mystery. Across cultures and centuries, many composers and musicians seem to intuit or express a divine that is **both here and beyond**—a shimmering presence in sound.