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Palamambron's avatar

The ranting impulse is a form of prophecy or truth telling. There used to be a church of Ranters in England. They were sectarian dissidents against the Anglicans. Many other people, such as Muggletonians, Reveites, Quakers, Ranters, Puritans, etc. hated the Anglican model of Christianity. A rant was a guttural improvised speech. Usually filled with vulgarity. Always telling the truth. A good rant presents the very opposite of genteel (Frankish) manners that were popular among the wealthy Anglicans in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Grazyna Samborska's avatar

Always telling the truth is convenient as lies require maintenance

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Palamambron's avatar

Does your work have a psychedelic aspect? Are you a neo-Gonzo journalist? Any interest in Mickey Hart, world percussion music or that type of thing?

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Palamambron's avatar

OK I won't grill you too hard. But, are you on a Shamanic Warrior Quest? What is your Beatrice (to extend your earlier analogy)? What is the beaconing light that pulls you deeper into your Hellish journey?

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KW NORTON's avatar

Have you begun rewriting the Constitution as yet? Or writing a new one? Being fearful of chaos is exactly what got us into this mess. Allowing the perfect people to run the world, lol. About time us less-than-perfect ranters had a role. We got offered a respite from chaos (security) by our civilizations as an offer we could not refuse (see the Godfather). Unfortunately we fell for it - still fall for it - and then suffer the consequences of the full blooming of chaotic horror these godfathers bring down on us. Time to break the cycle of abuse.

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Paul Repstock's avatar

Thank you for the beautiful photos of Laos, a nation few get to see and few know about.

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Libor Soural's avatar

You're welcome, my pleasure, I'm always glad when somebody enjoys my stuff. Feel free to check out all the other travelogues around the world. I still have a few to write ... yet not in the mood of doing so right now.

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Thank you. I am an 'older' Canadian Conservative (as in, I yearn for a past that never really was) but, I would like to witness. (Delusional??)

Canada is also beautiful, without the Human history of Laos.

I don't seek "Chaos", but I see its value. The roses smell better with age. However, I tell 'ultra conservatives' that they should move to Mars. Nothing has changed there for several Billion years....D

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KW NORTON's avatar

As far as I know the founding ancestors were not funded. Plus they had to travel overland by horse to Philadelphia. We have many more tools at our fingertips than any of them did.

Don't believe this is a paid gig, lol.

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

Interesting! My mother in law was from Laos. We may be heading up that way soon...

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Felix Purat's avatar

I think this is the nuttiest thing I've read since Calvino's Cosmicomics. Which by the way, is one of the most sublime compliments a humble literato like me can give.

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Felix Purat's avatar

It's cosmologically comparable, I'll just say that. :D The whole formula where you click an article thinking "oh, what will Hungary or Laos be like?" and you get something totally different is genius! I think I would just annoy people if I tried to pull that off.

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I'm sure you are annoying them, my friend! Those reporting you need to grow a thicker skin, that's all, especially if they claim to like literature. (including literature that almost got some, like Dostoyevsky, killed) Literary art is supposed to be fearless. And timeless as I, founder of Timeless, must assert. :D

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Felix Purat's avatar

I am not kidding you! Next time I have a chance, I will ask around. :D I'm in the Literature and Linguistics Department.

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Grazyna Samborska's avatar

"I have a chaotic mind" but seems to be under control

USA - United Satanic America; well, I live here

I can MAKE you a coffee, beyond good

Cheers

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Grazyna Samborska's avatar

Even $$$ square are worthless. If you don't like acidic water, come over - our rain H2O is spiced also with vinyl chloride. USA!, USA!

But sulfur smells after devils' tails...

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Blaise's avatar

Good one!

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KW NORTON's avatar

Dangerous freedom. Good post thank you. Life as electromagnetic beings in an electromagnetic universe.

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Libor Soural's avatar

I know Canada a bit, been there a couple of times, it's a very beautiful country, every country is actually beautiful. It's really only a few individuals at the top, the stupid, too greedy, who ruin it all, anywhere.

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