Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Purposeless Matter Hovers in the Dark

If I was a gambler I would bet that Dump will NOT drop - and if he orders the military to drop a nuke they will drop a nuke - a nuke on Iran at eight eastern daylight tonight, but I would take take a flyer on they-meant-to-but-dropped-it-on-Istanbul-by-mistake at +2500

Reminder: Dump is the idiot savant of blunt, he's a shitlord weapon, this would not be happening without their sanction, and he's not who those in Club Shitlord, omerta-sworn and blackmailed-loyal, are scared of

My dying during eye surgery this Thursday in the nuclear retaliatory attacks against shitlords' nuclear bombing of Iran would appropriately complete the Slothrop metaphor of my life's trajectory mirroring the United States of Assholes'

Speaking of which, back afterward, eye hope to, um, see you soon, but if not...





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THE ANNIHILATION OF NOTHING

Thom Gunn

Nothing remained: Nothing, the wanton name
That nightly I rehearsed till led away
To a dark sleep, or sleep that held one dream.

In this a huge contagious absence lay,
More space than space, over the cloud and slime,
Defined but by the encroachments of its sway.

Stripped to indifference at the turns of time,
Whose end I knew, I woke without desire,
And welcomed zero as a paradigm.

But now it breaks—images burst with fire
Into the quiet sphere where I have bided,
Showing the landscape holding yet entire:

The power that I envisaged, that presided
Ultimate in its abstract devastations,
Is merely change, the atoms it divided

Complete, in ignorance, new combinations.
Only an infinite finitude I see
In those peculiar lovely variations.

It is despair that nothing cannot be
Flares in the mind and leaves a smoky mark
Of dread.
               Look upward. Neither firm nor free,

Purposeless matter hovers in the dark.

5 comments:

  1. 1/my hope is that you will survive and thrive after your impending operation

    2/i may have heard of the collection "songs of the bardo" before, but i forgot - one of my favorite todd rundgren songs of the 21st century is titled 'bardo' --- my current thinking is that one need not worry about reincarnation, nibbana is built into the way things are - but i could be wrong

    3/speaking of literature as the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere goes up and up - here's a summary of a scientific finding with regard to that compound:

    Bardi and his colleagues argue that CO2​ poses direct risks to human health that are independent of climate change (Bardi et al., 2025). Specifically regarding cognitive effects:

    Metabolic Disruption: High atmospheric CO2​ levels can alter blood acidity (pH) and oxygen transfer rates (Bardi et al., 2025).

    Cognitive Performance: The research highlights that rising concentrations can impair the ability to perform complex tasks (Bardi, 2024).

    Evolutionary Context: Bardi suggests that the development of the large human brain was likely possible only because CO2​ levels were historically low (around 280–300 ppm). He warns that current trends may make the high metabolic requirements of such brains "impossible to maintain".


    Bardi, U., Bierwirth, P., Huang, K. W., & McIntyre, J. (2025). Carbon dioxide as a pollutant: the risks on human health and the stability of the biosphere. Environmental Science: Advances, 4(9). https://doi.org/10.1039/D5VA00017C

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  2. "Reminder: Dump is the idiot savant of blunt, he's a shitlord weapon, this would not be happening without their sanction"

    indeed. TFIC love long-range plans... even short-range long range plans like DBT, and Der Bumble Trump has been dipped in Populist Fame Goo (and breading), and deepfried, in the filthy-looking Media Cooker, for a little more than a generation (not quite golden-brown as a result). He is/was also the hypothetically-easiest-to-stop candidate in my Lifetime, so the mere fact, that he wasn't stopped, testifies to the fact that he always had a TFIC-approved trajectory to travel. He is the Lee Harvey Oswald of Presidents. Historians will bring him up, 80 years from now, for cheap laughs, or to call for moments of silence, in the class room. Will the class room be in a fortified city under the sea? Maybe!

    Also: I know we're both Agnostics, at best, but I believe in the Power of Blogging Metaphysics and I can state, quite confidently, that you will zip through Thursday's procedure with nary a speedbump! I can actually swear to that! (No one I've ever reassured has EVER had anything but good news and surprise birthday parties for decades to come)

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    1. SA:

      1/from your typing fingertips to the ears of the Creative Forces of the Universe, with regard to many more enjoyable birthdays for our host here

      2/you mention lee harvey oswald, famous front man in the '60s for a very influential group - and i am reminded that through a combination of circumstances missus charley and i happened to turn on the tv one summer saturday afternoon in 2024 in time to see the immediate aftermath of trump's receiving a small cut on his ear - i persist in my willingness to believe that the sequence of events that led up to this was as has been presented by the mainstream media - it's a big world, many improbable events happen every second - but if there was a hidden hand or hands behind what happened, perhaps - i offer as a speculative hypothesis, not wanting to believe it, but nevertheless it occurs to me - it was the Almighty answering, in His own sweet time, the fervent prayer of Rev. Jeremiah Wright for justice - "God DAMN America" - the way things are going now make this seem more and more likely - "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."

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  3. Hey ! We live to be frightened again on another day.

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  4. Mr. Charlie!

    "i persist in my willingness to believe that the sequence of events that led up to this was as has been presented by the mainstream media"

    'Tis all nought but Maya, Mr. C. Electronic Maya. Transcend the deceptive curtains of Illusion and you will perceive Tattva.

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