One ought: (Powers,
1995).
the tangled growth: (Layard,
1975).
We consider: l.
Margulis, "Early Life." (Thompson, 1987).
rain points: J. Weishaus, "Tao."
seeing eye: (Glickesberg,
1953).
not guilt: E. Borregaard.
From, "Each Found Himself at the End of..."
believers in ghosts:
his known dry mouth replied and
belched,
blessing Christmas's mapped white shroud,
a place where Jack's disheveled veins
are up to his drinking.
"That's when I took the
hand
of this fella afraid of a-pokin'
through rivers."
Jack sees into a man like a kangaroo,
with weeds and gulps of wild howling,
wiping off and burping Adam,
smelling of stale beer.
J. Weishaus, "Christmas Visitation."
an elevator: In
his novel, The Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C. Clarke speaks
about "an elevator system linking earth to space," which
is called a space elevator or Orbital Tower. "In a sense it is
a tower, rising clear through the atmosphere, and far, far beyond....Think
of it as a four-track vertical subway or railroad, from earth to synchronous
orbit." (Clarke, 1978)
The reverse of my dream, the space
elevator is said to be "An engineering triumph, no doubt, but
a psychological nightmare. I suggest that some people will go mad
at its mere contemplation." (Ibid.) This is because,
unlike in an airplane, the elevator's physical connection to earth
would make for vertigo and the panic of falling. In an airplane we
must let go and fly, in an elevator we would still be holding on
to Mother Earth, and thus the phobia of detatchment.
to reduce: "There
was a problem in neurophysiology at the time: Is brain activity self-contained
or not? One school of thought said the brain needed external stimulation
or it would go to sleep--become unconscious--while the other school
said, 'No, there are automatic oscillators in the brain that keep it
awake.'" J. Lilly, "Altered States." (Weintraub, 1984).
Ice Age transfigured: J.
Weishaus, "Bringing Up Dogs."
The old idea: F. Kline.
(Ross, 1990).
New American Writing: (Hoover
and Chernoff, 1990).
the pragmatic: D.
Graham. (Gablik, 1991).
Picasso shoved: (Breunig,
1958).
Angrily: K.H.
Backman. From, "Requiem for a Bullet - Friday, March 27, 1992."
Zen Mountain Center: "Suzuki-roshi
called Tassajara a 'baby monastery,' but it was not really a monastery
in the Western sense of the word. It was a place for intensive Zen
training, not a lifetime retreat from the world. In this respect, it
was identical to Japanese Zen monasteries or training temples?with
one important difference. There were men and women at Tassajara."
( Fields, 1992).
han: "Hans traditionally
are decorated with a verse that reads, 'Living and dying are great
matters/How sad the passing of time/Impermanence is swift/Time waits
for no one.'" Albuquerque Zen Center Newsletter. May
1993. p. 1.
another set: (McKenna,
1992).
The east wall: (Mountain,
1982).
it goes on: B. Dahlen.
From, "A Reading [4]."
think that: (McKenna,
1991).
became a kind: (Stein,
1988).
at the mouth: (Corbin,
1978).
beyond what seems: (Reid,
1975).
the aspirations: "The
first thing I thought of doing in relation to this work was to find
an anthology of American aspirational thought and subject it to chance
operations. I thought the resultant complex would help to change our
present intellectual climate. I called up Dover and asked whether they
published such an anthology. They didn't. I called a part of Columbia
Unversity concerned with American History and asked about aspirational
thought. They knew nothing about it. I called the Information desk
of the New York Public Library at 42nd Street. The man who answered
said: You may think I'm not serious but I am; if you're interested
in aspiration, go to the Children's Library..." J. Cage, "Preface
to Lecture on the Weather." (Cage, 1979).
Love and Paris: (Beaujour,
1964).