Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: henning@acsu.buffalo.edu (Karl tranquillity Henning) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: (... jesus' privie journall) Message-ID: Date: 23 May 91 01:01:46 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: SUNY Buffalo Lines: 391 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu day (1) from the first was the word and the word was with god and the word and the word was god I am a word from the first from the first also god and the word I was god also god but let my subscription expire I too was once man the lump of clay made animate a man was I behind the dread word I had a mother and father well there were doubts about dad also god and the word was a man among men from the first who drank at weddings and broke bread with twelve friends well eleven at least and made a whip and the word to drive forth merchants from shopping malls day (2) -- the twenty-fifth at first I was man a screaming child spitting up unswallowed mothersmilk on my chin and smiling soiling my corncrib crib now I'm a holiday though I don't remember the halo but of course I was young at the time at first I was a man and later was made god made man the word made flesh auntie Em -manuel it's a change before I couldn't get a decent parking spot god with us day (three) a word with you what a nice thought comfort ye and his name shall be called wonderful counsellor and I am the lord I change not then perhaps Nietzsche was right rechtig recto and he's dead what's the good word? is it not a trait of life to change or die? to change or die out? petrified god petrified word word made stone if moses showed you the tablets could you read them? (where did the damned vowels go?) petrified words for long-withered lips languages languish and die the ones that live change exchange interchange and some which ought to have been allowed to die are kept on dialysis machines and in prayerbooks where they don't change but our use of them does day (4) -- hump day did Cicero say anything? ay, he spoke Greek to what effect? LGS aLGae iS LeGS LeaGueS oLe GuS eeL GaS owL GooSe oiL aGeS LuGeS LoGoS those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me what's the good word? it should be a word speakable to all god's children so that leaves out shibboleth nuclear sclerotia orgueuilleux aoi wlodzimierz krzysztof gorbachev sao paolo oaxaca apartheid stuyvesant mnemonic sri lanka ululate ojibwa maedchenfaenger fruehjarsmesse einschuldegung frusen gladje leeuwenhoek kierkegaard melanchthon etymon etymon etymon erinys ichthyosaur qiaopurikebazha tenochtitlan quetzalcoatl punxsatawney kekataugh -tassapooek -skunoughmass phthisic gnocchi aa rhythmic schuylkill fuji beijing schlagzeug phonos verbum parole son klang wort day (5) take my word as good as my bond I am the first and the last alpha and omega oggi e sempre nunc et semper from the first was the word is your arm long enough to reach that far back are your arms strong enough to swim that far hard against slick Chronos' swift current call the spade a spade but can it dig through those sands carefully so as not to shatter the hourglass at its waist waspish and frail to sift among Time's detritus even I have forgot my own word day (6) remember recall take it slow take it one step at a time slanders, sir I mean, the matter that you read, my lord between who? what is the matter, my lord? words, words, words what do you read, my lord? perhaps "sneeze" which was once "fnese" afore those fimple caresree dayf when F's looked like S's and FN together started to look strange or "ye" (pronounced "the") as in "ye olde shoppe" when printers used Y for the runic letter THORN which the pre -Guttenberg Saxons used for TH or maybe a simple everyday word like "and" which doubly served for "if" gramercy haply I am mickle mistook and my lost word be not King's English, but transfused from some foreign heathenish land perhaps "maugre" a timorous Norman word or "tele -vision" a mulish child the coupled tongues of Greece and Rome or "shampoo" I was a word and was od's bodikins gadzooks zounds day (7) I remember now I leafed through an old paperback I can't tell you for sure which book which I fear casts doubts on my credibility let it suffice that it was a book from undergrad days and a message a phone message scrapped on a discarded patch of marshmallow -white paper the word of remembrance the twin facts long forgotten that my sister called and that Shelley was surprised when she learned that I didn't know her nickname was Kermit the literal and the commentative crystallized in time and in the miracle of ink dribbled off a ball bearing the shadowy dread of the indelible and inedible word (... jesus' privie journall) kph; Winter, '90/1 -- "The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you." -- Henry Miller