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Unknown: My georgics A paler node in praise of work or homage to the working class georgics

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a didactic poem address to my students on the necessity of writing georgics celebrating George

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who is George George's a farmer. k Earth, as in j ology. org, or erg, as in Oregon, or energy is work.

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George is Earth worker. My georgics celebrating Earth work, celebrating work. A pallet node, or recantation?

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My best thoughts are second thoughts. I was wrong. I once celebrated hamo Ludens. The play principle in human culture

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I was an abolitionist. A Bolshevik abolish, abolishing work. But as Hegel said,

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the life and knowledge of God may doubtless be described as love playing with itself. But this idea sinks into triviality. If the seriousness, the pain, the patience and the labor of

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the negative are omitted. Hannah Allen's three staples in the human condition, labor, work, action,

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labor in the fields, work of our hands, making artifacts and political or historical action. We can abolish action along with politics and history and fall again into that paradise

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in which men have no history that Paradise Garden but in that garden, there is work to be done.

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Always work to be done. There is always work to be done. psychic work to be done. dreamwork.

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psychoanalysis works through the press materials to turn the whole stream of consciousness back into useful into irrigation channels so that none of this power be wasted to clean the Augean stables

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to tame the nemean Lion to capture the adamantium bow to clear the stem phalion birds from the marshes of the unconscious mind. These things must be

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done. Until we have completed our 12 labors. We mankind have no right to rest on a cloud cushion

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of fantasies and dreams of an afterlife. It is reckless. mation work like the draining of deciders, z, says Freud there is reclamation work to

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be done. We are not in hell we are in purgatory. apropos of Dante's sentence, the proper function is not in existence for the sake of being,

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but the being for the sake of the function. Charles Williams writes, this is the primal for all the images of whatever kind. They

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were created for they're working, and in order to work, hell is the cessation of work, and the leaving of images to be, without any function, merely themselves. Just to be ourselves is hell.

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Just doing our own thing, the ideal state, each doing his own work, functioning organically,

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members of one body to find meaning is to find work. The confusions which occupiers' arise when language is like an engine idling, not when it is doing work.

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We need to work in alchemy, the great work of transformation, transform the nature of work. Two ways of never ending.

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The scientist continues, the alchemists starts all over again. Recycling transformed the nature of work,

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return it to life, to labor, the labor of childbirth, making all men into women. I mean, in our work, giving birth in beauty, as Plato said, My great travail so gladly spent,

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the pain to the sky will be much friendlier then than now a part of labor and a part of pain and next in glory, to enduring

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love. Labor is fertility. Marx and Freud reconciled. Marx's productive process is really a reproductive process.

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Life goes on, man makes himself produces reproduces giving birth in beauty to himself. Instead of gross national product, reproduction, reproduction of the eternal

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ecology instead of economy. The turn to ecology is a return to agriculture to the garden to dress it and to keep it instead of productivity, reproduction

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the proletariat prolife reproduces the organic base of civilization,

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the scope of reality. The proletariat is the human condition. Earth, Earth sea, giants of the earth, my great travail so gladly spent, the lover

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to the lover besiegers his mistress not to forget his steadfast faith and true intent. Forget not yet the tried intent of such a truth, as I have meant my great travail so gladly spent,

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forget not yet to learn to love is to learn to love labor loves labor, love. Sex is labor.

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JOHN Dunn's poem to his mistress going to bed. Come, madam, come on, arrest my powers defy until I labor, I in labor lie until I labor, I in labor law.

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The bed is child bed covad in which he plays the woman's part, and labor to be an act of love. hamo laborales runs to laboring

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men, is men and Amati. In love with loving, seeking an object for his love. See Freud on the origin of language. The first sounds other word a means of communication, and of summoning the sexual partner.

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In the later development, the elements of speech were used as an accompaniment to the different kinds of work carried on by primitive man. This work was performed by associated efforts to the sound of rhythmically repeated

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utterances, the effect of which was to transfer a sexual interest to the work. primitive man thus made his work agreeable, so to speak, by treating it as the equivalent of and substitute for sexual activities.

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Freud and Marx reconciled labor to be an act of love and singing makes it so return culture to agriculture, agriculture, the root, commerce

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the branch, rediscover our roots, the true radicalism the great cultural revolution, overcoming the antinomy of town and country. rustic is not the opposite

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of cultured agri culture as a field The opening of the field

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by Robert Duncan unfolding the field, the field that is a field folded in the Bhagavad Gita,

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Chapter 13. Arjuna said prakruti and purusha the field and the knower of the field, knowledge and that which is to be known, all this, okay Chava I

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desire to learn and Harmon to make us of the North says, Man is therefore, not only a living field,

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but also the son of the field. And not only the field and the seed, as in the system of the materialists and the idealists, but also the king of the field,

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who plant good seed and hostile tears in his field. For what is a field without seed, and a prince without land or produce. These three in us are therefore one, namely, God's field. The city is a field

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vehicles plow, civilization is a plow. Imperial paradigm was by plowing the Emperor's furrow. From plowing of fields is justice. palace, polio row

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meaning to plow back and forth. Civilization reproducing itself. The walls were chased by the founders of cities with a plow. The first cities were all founded on cultivated fields. The plowed lands were the first altars of the Gentiles victim.

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The first fire lighted on them was that would serve to clear the forests of trees and bring them under cultivation. And alter arare to plow

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as in arable. civilization is an altar on which your sacrifices being made. And the sacrifice is cultivation.

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coat is cultivation immolation originally, to sprinkle the victim with sacrificial

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meal Cadmus opened up the furrows with his plow and planted that in the dragon's teeth Cadmus seed bed

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or seminary, The Birth of a Nation. Marriage is all statesmen agree is the seed plot. seminar to have the family

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as the family is the seed plot of the Commonwealth Open the field and see the soldiers growing in it. springing up from the photos first the points of Spears appear, then helmets with colored balloons waving. Next

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shoulders, breasts, arms loaded with armor. The field becomes a battle field, a field of Mars

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a campus matures. A campus or armed camp.

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The flower of the nation's blowing each other down. It could be the illicium fields, or Saturn's reign. Saturn, the sower,

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the age of gold, to gold unknown. The first gold, the golden harvests. The shear is a field in the science of heraldry. Rico says, The first shield in the world was the ground of the

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field in which the dead were buried. What we have to interpret, as a field, what we have to make as a shield, shield of Achilles, a field sown with signs and

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images, the likeness of everything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water, under the earth. Return culture to agriculture.

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The garden project, a garden versus the poet says, there is a garden in her face. There is a garden in the mind.

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cultivate your own garden. cultivate your own psyche. Keats, Ode to psyche. Yes,

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I will be thy priest. He says to psyche. Yes, psychotherapy is the cult of the psyche. Yes,

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I will be the priest and build a thing in some untrodden region of my mind. Where branch of salts new grown with pleasant pain instead of pines,

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Sharma mama in the wind. Far far around shadows, dark, clustered trees fled to wild rigid mountains deep by steep

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and they're by Zephyrs, streams and birds and bees. From our slain dryads shall be lulled to sleep. And in the midst of this wide quietness the roses century will

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I dress with the revised trellis of a working brain with birds and bells and stars without a name. With all the garden of fancy air could feign who breeding flowers will never breed the same.

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And there should be for the old soft delight, but shadowy soul can win a bright torch and a casement open at night to let the warm love in

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The Garden of the mind there is planting and hoeing and tilling to be done energy and are gay Self Realization.

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There are two kinds of energy Atomic Energy explosion, ecstasy, mushroom cloud in the head

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and there is agriculture patient and during day after day he seeds georgics works and days works and days the hours the

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seasons what a wonder is man Tom who passed a town gun offset on our come a time apart through a tie elomi known error thrown at us Ace at us It pays to get a

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call you what a wonder is man the eldest of powers are

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indestructible and weary at Earth. He wears her down, the plows go back and forth, year after year. The horse teams helping

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here in year out the earth cycle there is no end to it. No Telos. No go. No teleology. to plow is to write to strophe dawn

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ox trophy wise ox turning Why? The word for archaic Greek writing, running from left to right and right to left unturned. Alternately, as the ox plow

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is trophy or turning or verse. Back and forth. And field composition.

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At any rate, not straight forward. That's pros process straight forward. Pros go straight forward without versus

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to plow is to write. In a manuscript of the eighth or ninth century preserved at Verona, a Mozart rapid prayer book.

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The following notation was discovered in 1924 sipar eva Bovis pettalia at ARPA e arbovirus. Oreo to neighbor in a grocery a man seminar. That is,

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he urged on the oxygen. Cloud white fields, held a white plow and sowed black seed. An attempt was made to turn this into a rind quatrain in early

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Italian as a precious relic of popular bucolic poetry. As a matter of fact, it is a scribal adage of erudite origin. The white fields are the pages. The white flour is the pen. The black seeds

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the ink thinking is plowing day delirium out of the photo. Only where there is a pharaoh Is there any point in going straight,

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a book of hours of work Sunday days, a book of hours, a book of seasons, hours were seasons, before there were clubs, how things have

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speeded up a book of hours, I need the role I need the I need every hour.

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Work then for the God's keep life hidden for men. You have to dig in order to dig it. The treasure is buried in a field.

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Consciousness is an archeological dig. Consciousness is an agricultural dig, go down to the underworld. It is no deeper than a ditch. Work is mystical to

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a book of ours is still a book of prayers. Not for raw re s store robbery. To labor is to pray as in the garden project.

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Well the monastery the garden and the monastery overcoming the distinction between works and grace overcoming the distinction between the active and the

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contemplative life. Idle monks, the workers must see the prayers as work or workers and the prayers must see the workers as prayers. The seasonal cycle of

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ritual is the seasonal cycle of work. A book of ours a garden versus

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souls then or let yourself be sown in your own seminar or seminary. cultivate your own garden.

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What can you make to grow? How does your garden grow, to make to grow as poetry? What branch and salts new grown with pleasant pain and let

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us gather together to harvest the sheaves of leaves a harvest of poetic gold