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Monday 22 May 2017

Stephen Crane: A man saw a ball of gold / Mahmoud Darwish: Rita and the Rifle

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Once in D and D I touched an #orb and got trapped inside for 4 years so send ur prayers up to the great DM in the sky: image via Karen McCormack @itsbaberuth, 21 May 2017

Stephen Crane: A man saw a ball of gold

A man saw a ball of gold in the sky;
He climbed for it,
And eventually he achieved it --
It was clay.

Now this is the strange part:

When the man went to the earth
And looked again,
Lo, there was the ball of gold.
Now this is the strange part:
It was a ball of gold.
Aye, by the heavens, it was a ball of gold.

Stephen Crane (1871-1900): "A man saw a ball of gold...", from The Black Riders and Other Lines, 1895

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Astronauts entering a Lunar outpost: concept art by NASA, 15 May 2006 (NASA)


#TinyTrump goes on a #Saudivisit #Trump: image via Raging Bull No Trump @ToDropADime2, 21 May 2017
 

Amazing Video Shows Orbs Flying in Formation Over Peru #peru #ufo #ufos #orb #orbs #perunews #weird #unexplained: image via TexasUFOs @TxUFOSightings, 16 May 2017


There is literally a #Trump tweet for every occasion! #Orb: image via Karen Teegarden @KarenUniteWomen, 21 May 2017



The #orb is an entertaining meme—for sure. But I've yet to read an explanation of what they think they are actually doing. —Anyone know?: image via Theodore Grunewald @TedGrunewald, 21 May 2017  



The #orb is an entertaining meme—for sure. But I've yet to read an explanation of what they think they are actually doing. —Anyone know?: image via Theodore Grunewald @TedGrunewald, 21 May 2017



trump 100% made a wish when he touched the orb
Apocalypse Sheela Retweeted KRANG T. NELSON
Apocalypse Sheela added,
Im not sure why the universe keeps giving us gifts like these but, please, keep it coming. image via Apocalypse Sheela @PettyLupone, 21 May 2017 


trump 100% made a wish when he touched the orb
Apocalypse Sheela Retweeted KRANG T. NELSON
Apocalypse Sheela added,
Im not sure why the universe keeps giving us gifts like these but, please, keep it coming. image via Apocalypse Sheela @PettyLupone, 21 May 2017

6 comments:

TC said...


Stephen Crane: A man saw a ball of gold

Marcel Khalife: Rita (Darwish)

TC said...

Negativland: Christianity Is Stupid

Hilton said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWgHOAcK0cI

Marcel Khalife set Rita to music, singing it accompanied by the oud. I actually co-produced this album with Khalife singing poems by Darwish, came out on Paredon Records, now part of the Smithsonian Folkways collection. It's available on their website. This was the first album of Khalife's music in the US. I met him in Beirut to arrange it during the civil war in 1981 and months before the Israeli invasion. Too bad Darwish didn't live long enough to receive a Nobel Prize.

TC said...


Hilton, that's wonderful.

Another performance I like:

Marcel Khalife: Rita et le fusil

awbradley said...

The orb stuff is hilarious,Mr. Clark. I keep pushing you for poet laureate...

TC said...

Thanks, A.W., but it's not me puts that special glow into things, it's the orb.