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Infinite Mall #6

The Flower Flowers, impossibly Georgia O'Keefe,       Involuted and drooping and seem to drip Sweet secrets that slide thickly down dark green leafs       Put your lips to a leaf and take a sip

thathichfalls #4

    All that which falls within the purview of the five senses is known as the empirical. As these senses -- of smell, taste, sight, touch and hearing -- are the preceptors of pleasure and pain, it goes without saying that advancements in empirical science have been resulting in ever-increasing means to heighten both pleasure, as well as pain. If we devote just a few moments to look at our own such sensations from a third party point of view, we would conclude that these sensations are in fact being referred to own ego, the sense of "i" ness. If this were not so, then the same objects would have produced the same sensation in everybody and in equal degree. Thus, the ego is the traceable birthplace of all desires and also reason for the relentless but futile struggle to satisfy them. The question is: who in reality is struggling in such a futile manner? If this is my body and this is my mind, then who is the real I? The wise call it Atman. It is always the

Connection #4 - Averroes to Yacoub Almansour

Abū 'l-Walīd Muḥammad bin Aḥmad bin Rushd ( Arabic : أبو الوليد محمد بن احمد بن رشد ‎), better known just as Ibn Rushd ( Arabic : ابن رشد ‎), and in European literature as Averroes (pronounced /əˈvɛroʊ.iːz/ ) (1126 – December 10, 1198), was an Andalusian Muslim polymath ; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy , Islamic theology , Maliki law and jurisprudence , logic , psychology , politics , Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine , astronomy , geography , mathematics , physics and celestial mechanics . He was born in Córdoba , Al Andalus , modern-day Spain , and died in Marrakech , modern-day Morocco . His school of philosophy is known as Averroism . He has been described by some [1] as the founding father of secular thought in Western Europe and "one of the spiritual fathers of Europe ," [2] although other scholars oppose such claims. Wikipedia Averroes (Abonlwalid Mo'hammed ibn Abmed ibn Mo'hnmmed ibu-Roschd) was

Infinite Mall #5

Green and White Not going up but falling from a high       Roof that has lights covered in green leaves Spilling dappled patches of viridian and white       Walk into a world of green and white weaves

Infinite Mall #4

The Empty Mall Choose the wrong door, there's a dusty shoe store       Come out to an empty mall, deserted Fountains seem larger, air is like quartz, flawed       Light like liquid spills on plants inverted

Red, Part Two - 5000 Degrees East

South through the Lake District, the landscape scattered with strange angular Red structures. The dull green grass on the soft hills was covered with these bright red things, collapsed geodetic spires topped with shattered domes. They looked like failed schematics for crimson mushrooms. Somewhere out on the endless prairies of North America was the successful version. A skyhook fifty miles square at the base, topped off at 23,000 high by something that looked suspiciously like a giant starship. No-one went anywhere near the thing. Red seemed to have plans there and they might involve us. We sat drinking whisky in our compartment watching the view. Somewhere around Lancaster Giles and I lit up Cuban cigars ("rolled on the thighs of nubile young puppets," joked Giles) and resumed our argument. "So you think we can't trust the puppets with anything more complex that food preparation and street sweeping?" I looked around the wood panelled ro

Infinite Mall #3

The Universal Mall Space filled with the same stores across the world       Go through one of those doors in Lakeline Mall Come out at a mall in France, space is curled       Around the only and all, the True Mall

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance

Imants Tillers, Emily Kame Kngwarreye . The English Translatio n (Stephane Mallarmé, trans A. S. Kline) A THROW OF THE DICE NEVER                                                                                  EVEN WHEN TRULY CAST IN THE ETERNAL                                                                                  CIRCUMSTANCE OF A SHIPWRECK’S DEPTH   Can b e           only                the Abyss raging              whitened                      stalled                                      beneath the desperately                                                     sloping incline                                                                                        of its                                                                                 own wing                                                                                          through            an advance falling back from ill to take flight