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Bravery

What is Bravery? Sometimes it seems obvious – those who receive
an award for gallantry, yet so often such bravery is an unthinking
response – you just do it. Bravery of a true nature is when you have
time to think beforehand – which is the key. You can be brave for
standing up to the fight, or brave for standing down. I guess bravery
is a decision to do something you are uncomfortable with.

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Eye On the World – Choose an Essay

Inde-Politics & Socio-Capitalism

BRIT NEWS: Think tank warns that govt
spending is heading for half of national income.
So now they’re nationalising the people themselves.

BRIT NEWS: Minister resigns and makes direct challenge to Gordon
Brown to go. The last days of this terrible govt may be here. We
can hope.

BRIT NEWS: UK food price inflation 4 times higher than
rest of Europe as supermarkets profiteer. This
used to be a land of fairness.

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RATTLER’S TALE

A Voyage of the Imagination

Twist In the Tale Archive

INTERSECTION

Two people meet, a boy, a girl,
An episode of life about to unfurl,
Intersecting angrily,
Surely not their destiny?
Intersecting sensually,
They’ll get there eventually;
Intersecting moods, man and wife,
That’s what it’s about, this thing called life

HOLO-STATE

Sci Fi: Roll up, roll up! Get your holo-husband here. No need to
feed, no need to suck up to his ego. Just switch on and he’s yours,
complete with variable sex settings … They looked back upon the
launch of the product with dread. Maybe they should have realised
they’d have had to perfect the holo-kid, too, before the human
race died out through lack of procreation.

SOUL MATES
(Updated 1200 GMT 7 June)

It’s gone again but it’s coming soon,
There it is! Now ahead – it blooms,
We’re always as one, in harmony,
Marching towards my destiny,
Two soles make a handsome pair,
Lose one and there’s nothing but despair,
But walk through life in goodness and stealth,
And surely the soul will look after itself

© Anthony North, June 2009

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TONY’S MUSE DIARY

Him Outside got a little frustrated by a recent Time Team Special on
Channel 4. It looked at the conclusions of a six year dig at
Stonehenge, deciding that it was all about the ancestors. Linking up
with a nearby woodhenge, it was centre of a ceremonial festival
linking a land of the living with a land of the dead, and the River Avon
was central to the process. Now, Him Outside considers this theory to
be almost true, but the problem comes with natural lines in the ground
that aligned with the Midsummer dawn – hence the solar alignment of
the monument. So this was pure luck? He doesn’t think so, as this
alignment is true to hundreds of ancient monuments the world over.
So to degrade the alignment is incorrect. Hence, the alignment
theories, such as its a calendar or a temple, cannot be ignored. Which
bring Him Outside to the frustration. People in the past almost
certainly thought holistically. Everything was a ‘whole’, so the most
likely answer is that it WAS a temple, it WAS a calendar, it WAS a
place of the dead. It was all of these things. But the modern
specialised mind cannot grasp it.

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