[MD] Thus spoke Lila

[John Carl]

Yeah, you're right Mark, It's been around before.  But goodness is always
welcome no matter how oft repeated or reformulated.


> "When old age shall this generation waste,
> Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
> Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
> "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
>  Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
>
>
A profound juxtaposition of teachings for me, when I was learning about the
philosophy of deep ecology and at the same time  taking a class in British
literature and learning through the Romantic poets an alternative critique
of SOM - "Sweet is the lore that nature brings, our meddling intellect,
destroy the beautous forms of things, we murder to dissect".  The two
different criticisms, Wordsworth and Blake AND  the logical objections to
anthropocentrism have always been married in my mind ever since.

Sometimes they squabble, but hey, that's marriage for you.

"How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?"

Yours,

John