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Philippa Rees's avatar

You have a veritable Aladdin's cave of fables, pithy tales and succinct quotations! I find myself wondering whether they are stored in a catalogue under code words, or float free in a remarkable memory that tosses them on demand upon the bank of retrieval? Whichever it is, it is enviable!

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Kingsley L. Dennis's avatar

I like that Philippa - pithy & succinct ... as some of life experiences consist wholly, or in part, of pith ... As for the storage, I have neither code words nor a remarkable memory, but a little elf that comes to me with their store of fables and leaves them written in the nebulous air for me to copy down before they melt into ether fractals...

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Max Schubert's avatar

Hello Kingsley,

sometimes I get distracted by little things, such as the reference to an "unpublished diary" by Rumi, quoted by Omar Ali-Shah (Page 16), is a challenge to the mind. I would interpret it as an artistic or provocative device, rather than a strictly factual source 😉 It seems to be deliberately used to challenge established Orientalist research and stimulate the reader's imagination?? By attributing universal, human statements to Rumi, he becomes more tangible and encourages independent thinking. Much like Werner Herzog's concept of "higher truth," where emotional and philosophical impact takes precedence over strict factual accuracy, this approach plays with authenticity and fiction to convey a deeper message.

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Kingsley L. Dennis's avatar

Hi Max ... it's the little things can sometimes distract us; other times, they allow us to focus ... how one chooses is all part of the device ;-)

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Max Schubert's avatar

Oh yes, the "little things"...that reminds me of one of my favorite books, "An Ahistorical Collection …." I spent weeks doing detective-level research trying to decipher this mysterious "historical collection" until it dawned on me that the unassuming "a" at the beginning changed everything. So you see how a small detail (or the failure to notice it) can cause a week-long rabbit hole trip. That's the charming part of ADHD. Sometimes you just have to recalibrate the "device." 😉

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Kingsley L. Dennis's avatar

Ah.... those unassuming little 'a's ... I know how you feel ;-)

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Gor's avatar
Jun 11Edited

In the Stream of Consciousness…

JJ Bloomsday Celebrations 2025

June 11-16

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Kingsley L. Dennis's avatar

Feliz Joycean times!

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Saxxon Creative's avatar

The holy man with his followers.

Sees a woman who can not carry herself over the river.

He is holy and can never touch another.

He carries the woman over the river.

The followers say.

"How dare you touch someone who is not holy."

He says.

"Are you still carrying her."

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Kingsley L. Dennis's avatar

Yes, one of the stories I like to quote... as humans, we tend to carry a lot of baggage ;-)

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Saxxon Creative's avatar

yeh I got the story from your posts.

Its brilliant how much we carry…

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Kingsley L. Dennis's avatar

And if humans were of the species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidæmarsupials, we might have more carrying capacity ...

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