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October 16th, 2008

October 16th, 2008
11:00 am [Link]	Promethean Tango Promethean Tango If ever I wanted to make fire, I could wait for lightning to strike a convenient tree but since lightning and I are strangers to each other, it might be better if I rubbed two twigs together. Or I could get religion and stand on a sacred mountain, praying for some bush to start its burning or maybe I could seize the day and squeeze it through a convex eye of glass to make a distillate of light: one hot, white spot of sun. I could take a more industrial approach. With due regard to every regulation governing health and safety and pollution, I could build a factory to blend sulphur, phosphorous and binding agents into a bright red bead to drop exactly on the tip of a softwood stick. Or I could just BUY a box of matches. If I did any of these things in close conjunction with a crumpled fist of brittle bone-dry grass, I might if I was lucky, get a thin, blue bootlace curl of smoke, followed eventually by a small warm glow. Alternatively, I could put on some music: “Milonga Triste” say, and you could close your eyes and tilt your head, slightly and your lips could brush my cheekbone lightly, or that might be my imagination since the touch would be so brief, so soft, you couldn’t really call it friction. And then we could dance in close embrace. Just dance, con dos corazones ardiendo, while the watching world went up in flames. _________________ Rob Evans Tags: tango (Leave a comment)
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01:39 pm [Link]	"Even bankers and managers are now reading 'Das Kapital' to try to understand what they've been doing to us. Marx is definitely 'in' right now," Schuetrumpf said. (Leave a comment)