PART I: SOCIAL INSECURITY
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage? Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
PART II: LITTLE BIRD, YOU KNOW IT ALL
Notes towards an investigation.
Also, a poem.
don't panic!
call the authorities
relax!
but stay alert
submit
stay off the streets
PART III: FLED IS THAT MUSIC - DO I WAKE OR SLEEP?*
Previous posts using birds as a theme or motif:
* with [e] props to Keats' Ode To A Nightingale [1894]
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 12:4-13
(Note the King James version translates it as "charity," that awful remnant of a powerful concept)
the kjv is without a doubt the best version for teh lulz, but martin luther always was prone to getting the giggles at inappropriate times, like this:
MARTIN LUTHER: peace if possible, truth at all costs.
i wonder what he meant?
i can only think of one way of finding out, but, i mean and, it involves grave robbing.
in the meantime i guess i'll have to satisfy myself with selectively quoting bible verses too:
International Standard Version(©2008):
He rendered the law inoperative, along with its commandments and regulations, thus creating in himself one new humanity from the two, thereby making peace.
standard!
ephesians 2:15 ^ written while high.
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