"No azure-hued tahalia now..." --from Epiphanius Wilson's
renditions of Moorish Ballads

In a recent poll on the American public's knowledge of
science, 21% thought the sun went around the earth.
[1988]

'It is a very great safeguard to learn by heart instead
of writing. It is impossible for what is written not to
be disclosed. That is the reason why I have never
written anything about these things, and why there
is not and will not be any written work of Plato's
own. What are now called his are the work of a
Socrates embellished and modernized.' --2nd letter
of Plato

The chief illusion of art is the same as the chief
illusion of the City: that it has everything you
need. (& can't find elsewhere--)
   In antiquity, the only Halloween
funhouses were the Mysteries. Today, the only
Mysteries are Halloween funhouses--.

"I am sick of the invisible world and all its efforts
to be visible" --Spicer

The Metaphor of the Unconscious as one, is a
reflection of the metaphor of the conscious as
one. Both are half-truths of immense utility.

"The long poem testifies reliably for period style."
--Harvey Gross