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yet do not, i would not go

Re: Parry Farrel

I won't say he doesn't do good stuff, and I certainly won't say that he
hasn't made good art; but I have a low opinion of his mind as a thinking
machine.  I've watched him do propaganda for his causes, and even if/when
I agree in principle, I find his approach frustrating and maybe
offensive.  Emotional appeals, false dilemmas, strawmen, glittering
generalities, etc etc etc, propagandistic sins of the quick media world,
etc etc.  Discuss?

Re: boys being bad.  Some John Donne, on the complementary reverse idea
(the antistrophe to the strophe, if you will :p ).  Bitter man schtick,
17th century style.  I don't say I agree.  I just note it here, for mirth
&c.  

"Song"

Go and catch a falling star,
   Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
   Or who cleft the devil's foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
            And find 
            What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.

If thou beest born to strange sights,
   Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
   Till age snow white hairs on thee,
Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me
All strange wonders that befell thee,
            And Swear
            No where
Lives a woman true, and fair.

If thou find'st one, let me know,
   Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet do not, I would not go,
   Though at next door we might meet;
Though she were true when you met her,
And last till you write your letter,
             Yet she
             Will be
False, ere I come, to two, or three.





That is all,

Fred
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