You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Universally that person's acumen is esteemed very little perceptive concerning whatsoever matters are being held as most profitably by mortals with sapience endowed to be studied who is ignorant of that which the most in doctrine erudite and certainly by reason of that in them high mind's ornament deserving of veneration constantly maintain when by general consent they affirm that other circumstances being equal by no exterior splendour is the prosperity of a nation more efficaciously asserted than by the measure of how far forward may have progressed the tribute of its solicitude for that proliferent continuance which of evils the original if it be absent when fortunately present constitutes the certain sign of omnipotent nature's incorrupted benefaction. For who is there who anything of some significance has apprehended but is conscious that that exterior splendour may be the surface of a downwardtending lutulent reality or on the contrary anyone so is there unilluminated as not to perceive that as no nature's boon can contend against the bounty of increase so it behoves every most just citizen to become the exhortator and admonisher of his semblables and to tremble lest what had in the past been by the nation excellently commenced might be in the future not with similar excellence accomplished if an inverecund habit shall have gradually traduced the honourable by ancestors transmitted customs to that thither of profundity that that one was audacious excessively who would have the hardihood to rise affirming that no more odious offence can for anyone be than to oblivious neglect to consign that evangel simultaneously command and promise which on all mortals with prophecy of abundance or with diminution's menace that exalted of reiteratedly procreating function ever irrevocably enjoined?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922. Fun fact: Samuel Beckett felt he couldn't compete with Joyce's complex prose experiments, so decided to go the other way - toward minimalism.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Numbers 1
The Census
1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said: 2 “Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one. 3 You and Aaron are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are twenty years old or more and able to serve in the army. 4 One man from each tribe, each of them the head of his family, is to help you. 5 These are the names of the men who are to assist you:
from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
6 from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;
7 from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;
8 from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;
9 from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;
10 from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;
11 from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;
12 from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;
13 from Asher, Pagiel son of Okran;
14 from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
15 from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”
16 These were the men appointed from the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the clans of Israel.
17 Moses and Aaron took these men whose names had been specified, 18 and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people registered their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one, 19 as the LORD commanded Moses. And so he counted them in the Desert of Sinai:
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
20 From the descendants of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families. 21 The number from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.
22 From the descendants of Simeon: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were counted and listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families. 23 The number from the tribe of Simeon was 59,300.
24 From the descendants of Gad: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 25 The number from the tribe of Gad was 45,650.
26 From the descendants of Judah: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 27 The number from the tribe of Judah was 74,600.
28 From the descendants of Issachar: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 29 The number from the tribe of Issachar was 54,400.
30 From the descendants of Zebulun: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 31 The number from the tribe of Zebulun was 57,400.
32 From the sons of Joseph:
From the descendants of Ephraim: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 33 The number from the tribe of Ephraim was 40,500.
34 From the descendants of Manasseh: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 35 The number from the tribe of Manasseh was 32,200.
36 From the descendants of Benjamin: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 37 The number from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400.
38 From the descendants of Dan: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 39 The number from the tribe of Dan was 62,700.
40 From the descendants of Asher: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 41 The number from the tribe of Asher was 41,500.
42 From the descendants of Naphtali: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 43 The number from the tribe of Naphtali was 53,400.
44 These were the men counted by Moses and Aaron and the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family. 45All the Israelites twenty years old or more who were able to serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families.46 The total number was 603,550.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
47 The ancestral tribe of the Levites, however, was not counted along with the others. 48 The LORD had said to Moses: 49“You must not count the tribe of Levi or include them in the census of the other Israelites. 50 Instead, appoint the Levites to be in charge of the tabernacle of the covenant law—over all its furnishings and everything belonging to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they are to take care of it and encamp around it. 51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall do it. Anyone else who approaches it is to be put to death. 52 The Israelites are to set up their tents by divisions, each of them in their own camp under their standard. 53 The Levites, however, are to set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant law so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the covenant law.”
54 The Israelites did all this just as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Most of Ulysses is not nearly that dense. That's the beginning of the Oxen of the Sun episode, which is by far the hardest to read.
Once, when I was taking a psychology class, there were two excerpts in the book. One was by James Joyce. The other was by a schizophrenic. I found no difference between the excerpts and, if you had asked me to choose, I would have labeled Joyce's excerpt as the work of a schizophrenic.
They’re selling postcards of the hangingThey’re painting the passports brownThe beauty parlor is filled with sailorsThe circus is in town Here comes the blind commissionerThey’ve got him in a tranceOne hand is tied to the tight-rope walkerThe other is in his pants And the riot squad they’re restlessThey need somewhere to goAs lady and I look out tonightFrom desolation row Cinderella, she seems so easyIt takes one to know one, she smilesAnd puts her hands into her back pocketsBette Davis style And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning"You belong to me I believe"And someone turns and says to him"My friend you'd better leave" And the only sound that’s leftAfter the ambulances goIs Cinderella sweeping upOn desolation row Now the moon is almost hiddenThe stars they're just pretending to hideThe fortunetelling ladyHas even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and AbelAnd the hunchback of Notre DameEveryone is makin' loveOr else expecting rain And the good Samaritan, he’s dressingHe’s getting ready for the showHe’s going to the carnival tonightOn desolation row Ophelia, she’s ’neath the windowFor her I feel so afraidOn her twenty-second birthdayShe already is an old maid Now to her, death is quite romanticShe wears an iron vestHer profession is her religionHer sin is her lifelessness And though her eyes are fixed uponNoah’s great rainbowShe spends her time peekingInto desolation row Einstein, disguised as Robin HoodWith his memories in a trunkPassed this way an hour agoWith his friend, some jealous monk
Now he looked so immaculately frightfulAs he bummed his cigaretteThen he went off sniffing drainpipesAnd reciting the alphabet You would not think to look at himBut he was famous long agoFor playing the electric violinOn desolation row Dr. Filth, he keeps his worldLocked inside of his leather cupBut all his sexless patientsThey’re trying to blow it up Now his nurse, some local loserShe’s in charge of the cyanide holeShe also keeps the cards that read"Have mercy on his soul" They all play on the penny whistleYou can hear them blowIf you lean your head out far enoughFrom desolation row
Most of Ulysses is not nearly that dense. That's the beginning of the Oxen of the Sun episode, which is by far the hardest to read.
Once, when I was taking a psychology class, there were two excerpts in the book. One was by James Joyce. The other was by a schizophrenic. I found no difference between the excerpts and, if you had asked me to choose, I would have labeled Joyce's excerpt as the work of a schizophrenic.
Well, it was Jung's opinion that Joyce wrote Finnegans Wake as a means of staving off schizophrenia.
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Numbers 1
The Census
1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said: 2 “Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one. 3 You and Aaron are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are twenty years old or more and able to serve in the army. 4 One man from each tribe, each of them the head of his family, is to help you. 5 These are the names of the men who are to assist you:from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
6 from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;
7 from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;
8 from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;
9 from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;
10 from the sons of Joseph:
from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud;
from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;
11 from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;
12 from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;
13 from Asher, Pagiel son of Okran;
14 from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
15 from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”
16 These were the men appointed from the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the clans of Israel.
17 Moses and Aaron took these men whose names had been specified, 18 and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people registered their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one, 19 as the LORD commanded Moses. And so he counted them in the Desert of Sinai:
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
20 From the descendants of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families. 21 The number from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.
22 From the descendants of Simeon:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were counted and listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families. 23 The number from the tribe of Simeon was 59,300.
24 From the descendants of Gad:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 25 The number from the tribe of Gad was 45,650.
26 From the descendants of Judah:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 27 The number from the tribe of Judah was 74,600.
28 From the descendants of Issachar:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 29 The number from the tribe of Issachar was 54,400.
30 From the descendants of Zebulun:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 31 The number from the tribe of Zebulun was 57,400.
32 From the sons of Joseph:
From the descendants of Ephraim:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 33 The number from the tribe of Ephraim was 40,500.
34 From the descendants of Manasseh:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 35 The number from the tribe of Manasseh was 32,200.
36 From the descendants of Benjamin:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 37 The number from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400.
38 From the descendants of Dan:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 39 The number from the tribe of Dan was 62,700.
40 From the descendants of Asher:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 41 The number from the tribe of Asher was 41,500.
42 From the descendants of Naphtali:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 43 The number from the tribe of Naphtali was 53,400.
44 These were the men counted by Moses and Aaron and the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family. 45All the Israelites twenty years old or more who were able to serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families.46 The total number was 603,550.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
47 The ancestral tribe of the Levites, however, was not counted along with the others. 48 The LORD had said to Moses: 49“You must not count the tribe of Levi or include them in the census of the other Israelites. 50 Instead, appoint the Levites to be in charge of the tabernacle of the covenant law—over all its furnishings and everything belonging to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they are to take care of it and encamp around it. 51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall do it. Anyone else who approaches it is to be put to death. 52 The Israelites are to set up their tents by divisions, each of them in their own camp under their standard. 53 The Levites, however, are to set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant law so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the covenant law.”
54 The Israelites did all this just as the LORD commanded Moses.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Here comes the blind commissionerThey’ve got him in a tranceOne hand is tied to the tight-rope walkerThe other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restlessThey need somewhere to goAs lady and I look out tonightFrom desolation row
Cinderella, she seems so easyIt takes one to know one, she smilesAnd puts her hands into her back pocketsBette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning"You belong to me I believe"And someone turns and says to him"My friend you'd better leave"
And the only sound that’s leftAfter the ambulances goIs Cinderella sweeping upOn desolation row
Now the moon is almost hiddenThe stars they're just pretending to hideThe fortunetelling ladyHas even taken all her things inside
And the good Samaritan, he’s dressingHe’s getting ready for the showHe’s going to the carnival tonightOn desolation row
Ophelia, she’s ’neath the windowFor her I feel so afraidOn her twenty-second birthdayShe already is an old maid
Now to her, death is quite romanticShe wears an iron vestHer profession is her religionHer sin is her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed uponNoah’s great rainbowShe spends her time peekingInto desolation row
Einstein, disguised as Robin HoodWith his memories in a trunkPassed this way an hour agoWith his friend, some jealous monk
You would not think to look at himBut he was famous long agoFor playing the electric violinOn desolation row
Dr. Filth, he keeps his worldLocked inside of his leather cupBut all his sexless patientsThey’re trying to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local loserShe’s in charge of the cyanide holeShe also keeps the cards that read"Have mercy on his soul"
They all play on the penny whistleYou can hear them blowIf you lean your head out far enoughFrom desolation row
So you may be onto something there