The story plays out in scenes written as posts. Here you’ll find them listed, from beginning to end. (See About to learn how this story came to be, and why.)
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Emergence… Metamorphosis
The butterflies are gorgeous, gorgeous. All of them, but I really love the monarchs and daisies. They’re special. I know you’ve already sold Tweet on the lonely butterfly, but … if you’re going to go with butterflies anyway, those are stronger images. I do like Tweet’s avatar, though! Was it at all tempting to categorise…
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Delusions of Grandeur
Here’s something for "Perfection ", Peter. It’s a superbly spiritual passage from Mark Helprin, a writer whose fiction I love, though whose politics I loathe. Life hands out challenges like that, doesn’t it? Beauty is found in the most unusual places. Had I known his politics before having read most of his books, I might…
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RE: Delusions. . .
Staci… Why have you never brought up Helprin before? The passage you quote in Delusions. . . is scrumptious. Should I begin with Winter’s Tale ? Or Soldier? A couple things about categorisation… You’ve categorised that post in both Beauty and Perfection . I think as far as the sub-categories go, we should pick one.…
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Spiritual Beings
We are not sinful, shameful human creatures who have to somehow earn Spirituality. We are Spiritual Beings having a human experience. ~ Robert Burney
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Divine Synonyms
Peter, et. al. I thought we could expand on our Divine Synonyms by listing synonyms for them. It’s proving to be more difficult than I’d expected… God : The divine, transcendence — the connectedness of all creation within which we all exist, can experience, can become consciously connected to, can become a giving part of. synonyms :…
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The Choice :: To Live
So I wonder at myself, again. I wonder when will I choose to live? Yes. I’m alive, I’m manifest in this corporeal form. I made that choice before I had a body to live in. I’m here, asking this question, because I made the choice to be alive. But I haven’t yet made the decision…
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The Green Book
A rumination of mine on Steely Dan’s "Green Book". (Lyrics )A fantasy — the Green Book — a tome of loves had, and loves lost, and loves never known — and from them a conglomerate, a creation of iconic love, Marilyn 4.0…a vision of nostalgia that never was, before him, there, all Kiss Me Deadly.…
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The Unfillable Hole in Man
From the film, Apocalypto: And a Man sat alone, drenched deep in sadness. And all the animals drew near to him and said: "We do not like to see you so sad…Ask us for whatever you wish and you shall have it." The Man said, "I want to have good sight." The vulture replied, "You…
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The Butterfly
A passage from one of my favourite books… I remember one morning when I discovered a cocoon in the back of a tree just as a butterfly was making a hole in its case and preparing to come out. I waited awhile, but it was too long appearing and I was impatient. I bent over…