Friday, March 06, 2009
19. THE INCENDIARY PROLAPSE HAD TROUBLE WRITTEN ALL OVER IT - (we always talked that way):
"You can't criticize that stuff man you don't know what you're doing they'll get you in the end for this you know" Busbee said that to me out behind the catering hall and we'd just been inside the decoy shop - this huge place selling one after the other of duck decoys and wild animal figurines and stuff and the walls too were lined with beautifully framed trophy fish and trout and paintings and landscapes and that sort of thing GRANTED beautiful enough but questionable too as art I would have thought MAYBE decorative craft or something but not ART - missing all the qualifications in my mind for art - and the proprietor was a smallishly rotund guy about 60 years old and the entire time he was on the telephone arranging sale after sale of these things "auction prices as bid I understand that but these things are appreciating very quickly and I always keep a price floor in operation but I did tell you eleven hundred so that's what I'll sell it to you for but it's worth fourteen most certainly" and that's the way he was going on and on through the afternoon - making at least three maybe four sales in the short half hour I was there with Busbee and the place was well-kept neat as a pin laid out real nicely and the walls were covered with landscape art in striking realism and striking color too and little captions and stuffed field game and fish and of course a hundred or two decoys - ducks and things of all sorts and all poses - and I guess if you're into designing your little den or atrium or something I guess they're cool enough and worth some bucks but you have to have the bucks first - to make the place for them and then to buy them - so that's already like twice the bucks already needed - way out of bounds as far as I see it and where will it all end up when everything comes crashing down around us I want to know - ghost towns ghost houses abandoned reliquaries and ruined homes ripe for plunder and looting and many many a dead homeowner overstretched by finance and trying desperately to protect all meager (now meaningless) possessions too but THAT'S the end of all mankind and the end of vanity and its penchant for collecting too BEAUTY BE DAMNED
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Busbee turned and said to me : "I think you're right by the way about what you were saying back there' (we had been talking about cosmic intelligence and the uselessness of life on earth as we were walking along - but we'd come to no conclusions) - I think it's possible like you said that the earth is a form of intelligence - and if you look at people's intestines or people's brains or the inside of an eye or even a tulip or like the way animals are put together it almost impossible to believe it all happened only by evolution or whatever they mean by it and actually it certainly couldn't have happened by itself but like you say it's probably just the TERMS that are mixed up - evolution being another term for the initial expenditure of intelligence and reason on the design by 'outsiders' of some sort and like you say 'aliens' or extra-terrestrials who came here to pattern and impress humankind on this small rock until they returned again - well that is the GOD myth writ large - you're right - and I never used to believe you but I'm starting to see it and all this is more evidence of the presence of the divine than people let on and they sometimes still say 'oh no it was all done by an old man who came out of a lake in a tophat and who said 'let there be light' and all that stuff - and what's more extraordinary anyway - the creation myth or the possibility of everything exploding out of nothing? - was there darkness on the face of the waters or was there a cosmic prolapse whereby suddenly there was nothing and then there was something? they're both impossible no ? but one's in the bible and one's in the science books but they're both unthinkable and just because you believe in evolution or you believe in the cosmic prolapse doesn't mean that it isn't in some way divine" and I said "yeah nice going I'm glad you've come around to all that and that's only a start - I knew you were good for something" (we always talked that way).
"You can't criticize that stuff man you don't know what you're doing they'll get you in the end for this you know" Busbee said that to me out behind the catering hall and we'd just been inside the decoy shop - this huge place selling one after the other of duck decoys and wild animal figurines and stuff and the walls too were lined with beautifully framed trophy fish and trout and paintings and landscapes and that sort of thing GRANTED beautiful enough but questionable too as art I would have thought MAYBE decorative craft or something but not ART - missing all the qualifications in my mind for art - and the proprietor was a smallishly rotund guy about 60 years old and the entire time he was on the telephone arranging sale after sale of these things "auction prices as bid I understand that but these things are appreciating very quickly and I always keep a price floor in operation but I did tell you eleven hundred so that's what I'll sell it to you for but it's worth fourteen most certainly" and that's the way he was going on and on through the afternoon - making at least three maybe four sales in the short half hour I was there with Busbee and the place was well-kept neat as a pin laid out real nicely and the walls were covered with landscape art in striking realism and striking color too and little captions and stuffed field game and fish and of course a hundred or two decoys - ducks and things of all sorts and all poses - and I guess if you're into designing your little den or atrium or something I guess they're cool enough and worth some bucks but you have to have the bucks first - to make the place for them and then to buy them - so that's already like twice the bucks already needed - way out of bounds as far as I see it and where will it all end up when everything comes crashing down around us I want to know - ghost towns ghost houses abandoned reliquaries and ruined homes ripe for plunder and looting and many many a dead homeowner overstretched by finance and trying desperately to protect all meager (now meaningless) possessions too but THAT'S the end of all mankind and the end of vanity and its penchant for collecting too BEAUTY BE DAMNED
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Busbee turned and said to me : "I think you're right by the way about what you were saying back there' (we had been talking about cosmic intelligence and the uselessness of life on earth as we were walking along - but we'd come to no conclusions) - I think it's possible like you said that the earth is a form of intelligence - and if you look at people's intestines or people's brains or the inside of an eye or even a tulip or like the way animals are put together it almost impossible to believe it all happened only by evolution or whatever they mean by it and actually it certainly couldn't have happened by itself but like you say it's probably just the TERMS that are mixed up - evolution being another term for the initial expenditure of intelligence and reason on the design by 'outsiders' of some sort and like you say 'aliens' or extra-terrestrials who came here to pattern and impress humankind on this small rock until they returned again - well that is the GOD myth writ large - you're right - and I never used to believe you but I'm starting to see it and all this is more evidence of the presence of the divine than people let on and they sometimes still say 'oh no it was all done by an old man who came out of a lake in a tophat and who said 'let there be light' and all that stuff - and what's more extraordinary anyway - the creation myth or the possibility of everything exploding out of nothing? - was there darkness on the face of the waters or was there a cosmic prolapse whereby suddenly there was nothing and then there was something? they're both impossible no ? but one's in the bible and one's in the science books but they're both unthinkable and just because you believe in evolution or you believe in the cosmic prolapse doesn't mean that it isn't in some way divine" and I said "yeah nice going I'm glad you've come around to all that and that's only a start - I knew you were good for something" (we always talked that way).
