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« Reply #30 on: October 13, 2011, 03:02:29 PM » |
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or ... Liber Ivaris???
Now, gather close, once upon a time (the campfire needs more wood, could you see fit to go gather some, little fellows?) our ancestors actually worshipped bears and they instituted a taboo on speaking the name of the bear, so that we still call him "bear," which is merely "brown guy" or "brown Jonhny" or "brown Jenkins" if you prefer. And this was quite long ago, as you can see if you look at some of the languages related to ours, for example, the Russians call the bear "medved" which also happens to be the surname of their current president, and means "honey eater." Bern in Switzerland is the same euphemism, as is Brno, Moravia's capital. In Shakespeare's time "bear fights" in which wild bears were pitted against one another or dogs were quite the sport of the day, harkening back to the days of Roman gladiators, wild beasts and Christian fanatics who served as sacrifices to the Emperor. In Northern Japan, in the land now called Hokkaido, the ancient Ainu used to kidnap a bear cub, raise it on milk and honey or whatever the local analogy was, and then sacrifice it in an elaborate ceremony, sending its spirit home to the stars. The Big Dipper and the Little Dipper are the Big Bear and the Little Bear in Latin, which is still used to name the constellations in astronomy today.
In the Northwest Coast Native American traditions there are stories of the were-bear, of the woman who cohabitated with a bear and bore (ahem) offspring. In the early Middle Ages the Norse who colonized Greenland thought it a grand tribute to the King of Norway to send him a few live polar bears. Polar bears, walrus (whale horse) tusks and "gyrfalcon" (white falcons also known as gryffons) comprised the luxury exports of the Greenland colonies for centuries to come, even after contact was made with the American peoples and wood, hide and buffalo fur were imported.
Sometimes when we encounter the bear, he appears initially as a man, if standing upon his hind legs, and his cleverness reminds us that we are not the oldest nor the last of Earth's masters.
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We live on a placid Rhode Island and Providence Plantations of ignorance in the midst of the black seas of an infinity of dark foreigners, and it was not meant that we should voyage too far.
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« Reply #31 on: October 13, 2011, 03:06:37 PM » |
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« Reply #32 on: October 13, 2011, 03:08:14 PM » |
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Eric, I appreciate your binary support, but if there were a "Dislike" button I'd have been more pleased with that other Forum X. |
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We live on a placid Rhode Island and Providence Plantations of ignorance in the midst of the black seas of an infinity of dark foreigners, and it was not meant that we should voyage too far.
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« Reply #33 on: October 13, 2011, 04:45:10 PM » |
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Like the campfire quality of the account.
Now I will have to find a video of "Brown Willy" to share....
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« Reply #34 on: October 13, 2011, 05:26:42 PM » |
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Like the campfire quality of the account.
Now I will have to find a video of "Brown Willy" to share....
Brown Willy |
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"It is good to be a cynic... better to be a contented cat... best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing... we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice... If we were sensible we would seek death—the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed." -HPL
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« Reply #35 on: October 13, 2011, 05:55:12 PM » |
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Lol - Brown Willy was a comedy sketch done by some local group that I managed to tape off of public access TV a million years ago. Bunch of guys sitting around a campfire.
Same show, same troupe, did a public service announcement about the newest, and deadliest form of cocaine abuse - Blam, which has superseded crack. It's when you put the cocaine on a bullet and shoot yourself in the head.
Survival of the fittest at work.
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« Reply #36 on: October 13, 2011, 10:48:05 PM » |
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"Readeft thou the printed pagef of L & H from left to right & then invokeft thou the difembodied voicef of F & L to make the tale take fhape." - Book of Eibon, p. 214.
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Be sure to check out my cool weird little books @ http://www.lulu.com - search under Jensen for "Lot's Wife" and "What the Dirt Wants" - hurry, something bigger and far worse will be waking soon! |
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« Reply #37 on: October 14, 2011, 12:23:03 AM » |
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"Readeft thou the printed pagef of L & H from left to right & then invokeft thou the difembodied voicef of F & L to make the tale take fhape." - Book of Eibon, p. 214.
Thou shalt knowest thine luminous spheres art aligned and thy tome to procure whence thou can fathom, "Google it." -Liber Ivaris, P. 321 |
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"It is good to be a cynic... better to be a contented cat... best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing... we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice... If we were sensible we would seek death—the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed." -HPL
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« Reply #38 on: October 14, 2011, 08:30:34 AM » |
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Yep, I think we have successfully derailed this thread.  Bob Book of Eibon |
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If someone ever dares you to read the Necronomicon out loud... just say no.
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« Reply #39 on: October 14, 2011, 10:41:08 AM » |
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back on track, then, I might just take this one and tell it from within (have to check and find out if it's in public domain, though) - drop the guys entirely, and make this a grotty sweaty love triangle with a slow ironic finale.
It could work.
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« Reply #40 on: October 16, 2011, 11:06:30 AM » |
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Yep, I think we have successfully derailed this thread. Bob Book of Eibon  |
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