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K'tagogm-m, v. 1, issue 2, May 1945
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---------k'TAGOGM-M------------- TRANSCRIPTIONS FROM THE TERRESTRIAL (During 1937 to 1939, and very rarely in later years, I was in the habit of occasionally writing down excerpts from my reading that seemed to strike me as sufficiently startling, or sound, or something, to be worth having. Recently, upon digging up the sheafs of these notes, this "Commonplace Book of a Young Man in a Wild World", it occurs to me that my friends of the Vanguard APA may enjoy these notes, as I did, too bad for you. You ought to. So follows:) ************* "Liberty of thought and speech has come, by parity of fraud, to mean liberty to seize upon every defenseless mind and mangle it with every weapon of defenseless murder into a mush of mendacity. There is but one liberty which is of vital worth: the liberty of the human mind to be unpoisoned with intentionally instilled lies, the liberty to think honestly. All others follow." (Robert Briffault "Europa in Limbo:) ************** "If there is anything that cannot bear free thought--let it crack." (Wendell Phillips) ************* LOGOI Words--words eternally--the books are filled With words in varied patterns. Words are tossed Broadcast upon the virgin pages, lost Beneath a drifting soil that none has tilled Sufficiently to reap a harvest, killed By tumbleweed fecundity--embossed In gilt upon a purple page, at cost Of thinking now and heeding later--spilled Inkily in the daily press... I seek To tell you of the truth--and bitter curds Rise in the milk above a pallid, weak And watery remainder; prose and verse Labor beneath the everlasting curse.... Life! In thy mercy, grant release from words! (George Hedley - MAN!) ****************** ...all sane minds released from individual motives and individual obsessions move in the same direction towards practically the same conclusions...Rational minds don't disagree so much as people pretend. They have to follow quite definite laws. We misunderstand. We don't pause to understand. We let life hustle us along. Every tyranny in the world lives--and such systems have always lived--in a perpetual struggle against plain knowledge and illuminating discussion. We are living--let us face the facts--in a lunatic asylum crowded with patients prevented from knowledge and afraid to go sane. (H.G. Wells "Star Begotten") *************** There is no salvation for races that will not save themselves. Half the stars in the sky are the burning rubbish of the worlds that might have been. (H.G. Wells "The Camford Visitation")
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---------k'TAGOGM-M------------- TRANSCRIPTIONS FROM THE TERRESTRIAL (During 1937 to 1939, and very rarely in later years, I was in the habit of occasionally writing down excerpts from my reading that seemed to strike me as sufficiently startling, or sound, or something, to be worth having. Recently, upon digging up the sheafs of these notes, this "Commonplace Book of a Young Man in a Wild World", it occurs to me that my friends of the Vanguard APA may enjoy these notes, as I did, too bad for you. You ought to. So follows:) ************* "Liberty of thought and speech has come, by parity of fraud, to mean liberty to seize upon every defenseless mind and mangle it with every weapon of defenseless murder into a mush of mendacity. There is but one liberty which is of vital worth: the liberty of the human mind to be unpoisoned with intentionally instilled lies, the liberty to think honestly. All others follow." (Robert Briffault "Europa in Limbo:) ************** "If there is anything that cannot bear free thought--let it crack." (Wendell Phillips) ************* LOGOI Words--words eternally--the books are filled With words in varied patterns. Words are tossed Broadcast upon the virgin pages, lost Beneath a drifting soil that none has tilled Sufficiently to reap a harvest, killed By tumbleweed fecundity--embossed In gilt upon a purple page, at cost Of thinking now and heeding later--spilled Inkily in the daily press... I seek To tell you of the truth--and bitter curds Rise in the milk above a pallid, weak And watery remainder; prose and verse Labor beneath the everlasting curse.... Life! In thy mercy, grant release from words! (George Hedley - MAN!) ****************** ...all sane minds released from individual motives and individual obsessions move in the same direction towards practically the same conclusions...Rational minds don't disagree so much as people pretend. They have to follow quite definite laws. We misunderstand. We don't pause to understand. We let life hustle us along. Every tyranny in the world lives--and such systems have always lived--in a perpetual struggle against plain knowledge and illuminating discussion. We are living--let us face the facts--in a lunatic asylum crowded with patients prevented from knowledge and afraid to go sane. (H.G. Wells "Star Begotten") *************** There is no salvation for races that will not save themselves. Half the stars in the sky are the burning rubbish of the worlds that might have been. (H.G. Wells "The Camford Visitation")
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