[kj] btats inside cover

[fatpotanga]

I wondered that, but after a bit of surfing found out that lines from it are
quoted from the Bhagwad Gita such as "I am become death, the destroyer of
worlds"


On 13/5/05 8:37 pm, "peter.west410" wrote:

> If this is supposed to be ancient script,How come he mentions "umbrellas"?
>     Surely the umbrella is a modern day invention.
>  PW
> 
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> To: "The Gathering" <gathering at misera.net>
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> Subject: Re: [kj] btats inside cover
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> Here it is:
> 
> Oppenheimer quotes the Bhagwad Gita
>  "The atomic energy commission formulated its research policy in a series of
> meetings,
>  the most important one held at Bohemian Grove..."
> 
> I want to walk this new land.
>  Twisted iron. Fine, cream-colored dust
>  covers everything, the slippers I slip into.
>  They are melted together
>  like a woman¹s wrist bones.
>  I did not ask to look.
>  But she lives in the umbra of silence
>  beseeching me, stump-arms lifted.
> 
> It has been years
>  since the night-clad car pulled up
>  alongside my stride.
>  I was barefoot, a refugee
>  with physics under one arm.
> 
> I was escorted to where tall redwoods
>  spoke with their thousand-year breath.
>  I wanted to listen to their story
>  of quiet moisture and verve--
> 
> but human voices swelled in crescendo,
>  begging me for molecular secrets,
>  for the white heat of light.
>  The redwoods swayed, turned skyward
> 
> as I do now. Rain pelts, fast and gritty,
>  turns ashen. Around me, faces, wet faces
>  so tranquil I could swear
>  it isn¹t blood, but just sleep,
>  dripping from their mouths.
> 
> Now wind, my upturned umbrella:
>  ribs displaying themselves, open, captive,
>  under thick cloud-jaws.
>  Brighter than a thousand suns
>  I am become death, destroyer of the worlds.
> 
> I find water, drink. It lights up,
>  a fiery eye scorching sleep.
> 
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> On 13/5/05 7:58 pm, "Alexander Smith" wrote:
> 
>> I remember hearing that it was a Sanskrit prophecy about the apocalypse.
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