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#124379 03/04/04 03:49 PM
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Which makes it difficult to escape - so one just has to face up to it.


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one just has to face up to it

It may have a pretty face, Rhub, but will it give you the time of day?



#124381 03/05/04 11:16 AM
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"The town clock in the market square
stands waiting for the hour.
While its hands they both turn backward
and on meeting will devour
Both themselves and also any fool
Who dares to tell the time.
Then the sun and moon will shudder
and the signpost cease to sign."

- Homburg, Keith Reid


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What is that, CK? It gives me the shivers.


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What is that, CK? It gives me the shivers

These folks have nothing but time on their hands, Jackie. And that's just the way they want to keep it!

Keeping time is a waste of time for people who only have time for spending it wisely.

When you spend time wisely, you have absolutely no reason to save it. Or to keep it.



#124384 03/05/04 12:58 PM
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Who are These folks?


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Who are These folks?

They are the original "quality" timers.

When "the signpost ceases to sign", it is more of a sign of our times, than it is of theirs.

The place where they live actually has a name.

It's called "Asychronicity".


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Ah--found it. Homburg is a song by Procol Harum. No wonder it sounded faintly familiar. So, grapho, methinks you were probably right. The person in the song spent some time apparently very unwisely.


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I thought it might be time to get back to the opening topic.
Here's a picture of slaves picking cotton before the Civil War.
http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/slavery/antebellum_slavery/plantation_slave_life/diet_religion/picking_cotton.htm
I learned something from the History Channel last night that I had never known before: that some Indians owned slaves.

Here is a fascinating site, where you can hear recordings of actual former slaves telling their stories. The ones about cotton picking are about 3/4 of the way down. Good luck to some of you, understanding these people!
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfshtml/afcesnbibSubjects1.html
Musick--there's one on blues music, from Mississippi.


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Re photo of "slaves picking cotton before the Civil War"

A picture is worth a thousand words, Jackie. It brings us back to where we started:

"Why would someone be out of their "cotton picking" mind?"

Anyone who had to pick cotton for a living, never had a chance to pick anything else.

Anyone who could pick and choose, would be out of their "cotton picking" mind to pick cotton.

Choosers keepers, losers reapers.




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