Tha Is

==> . . . and in his later years you’ll often see him leaning idly against walls, and occasionally even sprawling out on the ground.

Flann O’Brien: Because atoms rub off, a man who rides a bicycle all his life will gradually become 25, then 50, then 75% bicycle . . . ==>

It’s official: “Outer Dark” by Cormac McCarthy. Short and (duh) dark. Finish by . . . Halloween. [Denis Thais Cady Hedrick and . . . YOU]

Flann O’Brien, anybody??? The Third Policeman?? Intense! And funny! and Irish! I’m not far into it yet (not a single copper) but SHEESH!

Dr.Zhivago: 200 lightning-lit fragments unearthed from the revolution’s vast grave. Then Yurii and Lara’s love–breathless, holy, doomed.

Left teaching, & now free-lancing as sage, observer, adventurer, creator, laborer, lover, learner, purifier (not distiller), AND gamboler.

Dr. ZHIVAGO vs. NIETZSCHE: Although the Z in Zhivago is right in your face, Nietzsche’s Z-at-the-heart is just as unforgettable.

Which of my legion of followers has read pre-Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy–Suttree? Outer Dark? Children of God? Orchard Keeper? Anyone?

Nietzsche kick continued: N. sez asceticism is life-denying, so I’m drinking coffee on Yom Kippur (but w/o cream in deference to Yahweh).

NEITZSCHE in English rhymes w/ “screechy” or “nice to meetcha.” OUIJA rhymes w/ “squeegee” or “I got sumpn to readja.” End of twietzsche.