Donna K. Fitch

Renaissance Soul, Octopus Outlook

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To many minds

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To many minds there’s rest and there’s satisfaction in that expression “absolutely identified.” Absoluteness, or the illusion of it–the universal quest. If chemists have identified substances that have fallen in Europe as sand from African deserts, swept up in African whirlwinds, that’s assuasive to all the irritations that occur to those … [Read more...] about To many minds

Rancidness

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Rancidness–putridity–decomposition–a note that has been struck many times. In a positive sense, of course, nothing means anything, or every meaning is continuous with all other meanings; or that all evidences of guilt, for instance, are just as good evidences of innocence–but this condition seems to mean–things lying around among the stars a long … [Read more...] about Rancidness

It seems to me

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It seems to me that the exclusionists are still more emphatically conservators. It is not so much that they are inimical to all data of externally derived substances that fall upon this earth, as that they are inimical to all data discordant with a system that does not include such phenomena– Or the spirit or hope or amibition of the cosmos, which we call attempted … [Read more...] about It seems to me

The power of exclusionists

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The power of exclusionists lies in that in their stand are combined both modern and archaic systematists. Falls of sandstone and limestone are repulsive to both theologians and scientists. Sandstone and limestone suggest other worlds upon which occur processes like geological processes; but limestone, as a fossiliferous substance, is of course especially of the … [Read more...] about The power of exclusionists