touches of sense... - 3 views
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Let it bleed
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Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14The motto of the cutter. The secret answer to the question, "Am I still alive?" I need a sign from the only God I know--my own body, the only truth as embodied.
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I will not let the hope of life die.
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Let us bleed our life over blank sheets.
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Let us laugh out loud at this madness.
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I got the joke.
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I knew that I was effectively dead.
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At Thomas Merton's Grave BY SPENCER REECE We can never be with loss too long. Behind the warped door that sticks, the wood thrush calls to the monks, pausing upon the stone crucifix, singing: "I am marvelous alone!" Thrash, thrash goes the hayfield: rows of marrow and bone undone. The horizon's flashing fastens tight, sealing the blue hills with vermilion. Moss dyes a squirrel's skull green. The cemetery expands its borders- little milky crosses grow like teeth. How kind time is, altering space so nothing stays wrong; and light, more new light, always arrives.
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many metamorphoses over the years
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How do you live after death?
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This was all a nightmare.
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The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
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I lived still in hell.
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How wrong could I be?
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Her silence, and in particular her rictus terrified me.
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How does one live when one knows one is dead?
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Sound track to Dead Man, Neil Young http://open.spotify.com/track/3TAPPBn35eyY4I07FgMxuy
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"You have been through hell."
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"Why not me?"
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Why not I? Not I? Not me? Not it? http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/4556/who-wants-ice-cream-should-i-say-not-i-or-not-me
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"Education Nirvana."
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inkling
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a bit of surprise
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"Miracles do happen"
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"Hurrah!" I hear you say.
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a stunned silence
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"We've realised over the past few hours, that we really haven't got a clue what on earth we are playing at, so we have decided as a group to abandon all pretence at leading policy for world education."
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a congregation of education hacks
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There is one more thing
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Prince Edward Island, in Canada.
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Mr Dave Cormier
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"Who?" I hear you say.
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what will now become official world education policy.
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"Rhizomatic learning, or rhizomatic education."
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Mr Cormier, it appears, will be giving us a detailed report
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surprised as any of us
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The world is really a mad, mad, mad, and wholly uncertain place..
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"Hello! Can you hear me?"
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"Idiot!" "Fucking idiot."
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"Idiot!" "Fucking idiot."
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"So, what next?"
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"If I were to put my hand there?"
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"No, it's unsafe, there's a loose block." "If that were to come off, that's a bloody big block.
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"What if I moved my foot up a bit."
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"Fuck. Fuck. Fuck."
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"Yes, that seems better."
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significance
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significance (sɪgˈnɪfɪkəns) [a. OF. significance, or ad. L. significantia, f. L. significāre to signify: cf. signifiance. Not frequent before the 19th cent., but cf. next.] 1. a.1.a The meaning or import of something. c 1450 Merlin ii. 39 Often axed Vortiger of Merlyn the significance of the two dragons. [Ibid. 40 significaunce.] 1649 Milton Eikon. viii. 73 Empty sentences, that have the sound of gravity, but the significance of nothing pertinent.
Audio recording and upload >> b.1.b Without const.: Meaning; suggestiveness. 1863 Geo. Eliot Romola iii. xxiv, To one who is anxiously in search of a certain object the faintest suggestions have a peculiar significance.
Record and upload audio >> 3.3 Statistics. The level at or extent to which a result is statistically significant; freq. attrib., as significance level; significance test, a method used to calculate the significance of a result; hence significance testing vbl. n. 1977 P. Johnson Enemies of Society xi. 157 In psychology, for example, it is notorious that 'results' use
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"You fucking idiot." "Fuck, fuck, fuck."
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at a crux again
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crux (krʌks) [L.: see cross.] ‖1.1 = cross, in heraldic and other expressions. crux ansata = tau 2 b (see quot. 1930). 1841 J. G. Wilkinson Manners & Customs Anc. Egyptians 2nd Ser. I. xiii. 341 The sign of life (or crux ansata) was compelled to submit to the unintelligible name of 'Key of the Nile'. 1896 [see ankh]. 1930 E. A. T. W. Budge Amulets & Superstitions xviii. 340 It is wrong, too, to call the sign ☥, crux ansata, the 'handled cross', for whatever object the hieroglyph may represent, it was certainly not a cross or anything like it. ‖2.2 Astron. The constellation of the Southern Cross. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 198 Crux, a southern constellation formed out of Halley's observations by Augustine Royer in his maps published in 1679. 1870 Proctor Other Worlds xi. 253 There is in the constellation Crux, a pear-shaped vacuity of considerable size. 3.3 fig. a.3.a A difficulty which it torments or troubles one greatly to interpret or explain, a thing that puzzles the ingenuity; as 'a textual crux'. Cf. crucify v. 2 c. (Used by Sheridan and Swift with the sense 'conundrum, riddle'.) [Cf. G. kreuz, Grimm, 2178 g, (quoted from Herder 1778, and Niebuhr); according to Hildebrand taken from the scholastic Latin crux interpretum, etc.] 1718 Sheridan To Swift Wks. 1814 XV. 56 Dear dean, since in cruxes and puns you and I deal, Pray, Why is a woman a sieve and a riddle? 1718 Swift To Sheridan Ibid. 61 As for your new rebus, or riddle, or crux, I will either explain, or repay it in trucks. 1830 Sir W. Hamilton Philos. Perception Disc. (1852) 69 note, Ideas have been the crux philosophorum, since Aristotle sent them packing to the present day. 1859 Maurice What is Revelation 70 To look upon them as mere cruxes and trivialities which may be left to critics. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 401 The unity of opposites was the crux of ancient thinkers in the age of Plato.
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"My God, oh my God , why have you forsaken me?"
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"I thirst"
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"I swarm up towards the sunlight, gasping for air."
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"It is finished."
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in significance