I took the time Wednesday afternoon to watch a video of The Cotton Patch Gospel, a show derived from a homely re-telling of the Gospel of Matthew by a Georgia preacher, Clarence Jordan, the script by Tom Keyes, who narrates and plays most of the characters, accompanied by a singing bluegrass quartet. It’s quite a [...]

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Memory does not fail, but transmogrifies.
In 1972 I was an all too callow youth of 18.
Engaged in an undistinguished academic careen. I was much more interested in my girlfriend’s sexual acquiescence and various pharmaceuticals, natural and artificial, than in, say, studying, or even going to class. But I was playing the part when I found [...]

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I received a note from Carlos Cisneros this afternoon, closing our correspondence on the streets. He told me I was welcome for his help and to contact him if I had other concerns. So I wrote back forthwith as follows:
Mr. Cisneros:
Thank you for your help in beginning to assemble some information on the [...]

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The Law of Irony is merely how the Law of Karma looks when we disapprove of the results.

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