Wednesday, March 12, 2008

These are out pyramids

What could the author have meant by this?
Is this an infelicitous turn of phrase-- "these are our pyramids?"
Or are "these," some as yet unidentified group but perhaps the implied reader "out" as in missing, pyramids?

The ban on the music of Lipa Schmeltzer

A detritus machine is the modern author and if he is not then he should be. The constant generation of garbage is not only a good way to support the garbageman's union but also a great way to comprehend the modern condition. Or the only way, since piles of trash are what we have left to sift through.

These are out pyramids.

In any case, perhaps you, ecologically conscious reader who is only as yet implied, would like to comment on the efficacy of recycling, the inverted pyramid.

your world, or the zen garden

When I compared your world to an English garden, I did not mean to trivialize your interest in Zen, that finest of the black arts innovated to us by the ancient Egyptian wisdom of the Corpus Hermetica. Obviously your many sojourns at east west books have convinced you not only of the efficacy of tea as a laxative but also of the very evil nature of gardens not made of sand and a solitary rock, which do not fit in your office, i.e. their deleterious effect on that most important element of exterior design, the environment. And you, dear reader, are so environmentally friendly as to sit and read my blog and cease your domination of like, the whales man, that I do not mean to insult you by speaking of this horrific English garden, which is practically a rape of nature.
Sorry for the bad choice of metaphors.

beginning the project

Having trolled wikipedia over numerous sleepless nights I came finally to a realization that will shock most of my readers not only for its patent obviousness, but also for its far reaching implications.
Like so much else, I am sad to report that wikipedia is a lie.
Dear reader, do not reject my conclusion out of hand! I humbly beg your forbearance in this matter, even if it upsets the carefully cultivated garden of your world, arranged just so with an altogether neutral point of view.
Of the weeds that grew in your garden we were too much aware. College professors in their obsessive pruning often reminded us that wikipedia was not a valid source. After all, had they not added impossible details to The Battle of Namur themselves; telling us all manner of fabrications about the uniforms of the forces arrayed under Fredrick of Prussia in battle against the Walloons (see wikipedia on The Walloon Holocaust which has been suppressed to this day by Armenians jealous to preserve the distinction of false genocides to themselves)?