....to Abuse The Intellect For Reasons Of

Bless Me Father, I Ate A Lizard.

Speak Up, Destiny, Speak Up! Destiny Always Seems Decades Away, But Suddenly It's Not Decades Away; It's Right Now. But Maybe Destiny Is Always Right Now, Right Here, Right This Very Instant, Maybe.

Men Must Fumble Awhile With Error To Separate It From Truth, I Think- As Long As They Don't Seize The Error Hungrily Because It Has A Pleasanter Taste.

What's To Be Believed? Or Does It Matter At All? When Mass Murder's Been Answered With Mass Murder, Rape With Rape, Hate With Hate, There's No Longer Much Meaning In Asking Whose Ax Is Bloodier. Evil, On Evil, Piled On Evil. Was There Any Justification In Our 'police Action' In Space? How Can We Know? Certainly There Was No Justification For What They Did - Or Was There? We Only Know What That Thing Says, And That Thing Is A Captive. The Asian Radio Has To Say What Will Least Displease It's Government; Ours Has To Say What Will Least Displease Our Fine Patriotic Opinionated Rabble, Which Is What, Coincidentally, The Government Wants It To Say Anyhow, So Where's The Difference?

Fire, Loveliest Of The Four Elements Of The World, And Yet An Element Too In Hell. While It Burned Adoringly In The Core Of The Temple, It Had Also Scorched The Life From A City, This Night, And Spewed Its Venom Over The Land. How Strange Of God To Speak From A Burning Bush, And Of Man To Make A Symbol Of Heaven Into A Symbol Of Hell.