You wake up oneday with a golden leaf choking you. . .


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I am insane and flew a mini-jet-plane over the Gobi desert and the Buddhist Oasis city, Duhuang, today with an Asian man:


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Ｉ　ａｍ　ｓｏ　ａｆｒａｉｄ　ｆｏｒ　ｔｈｉｓ　ｔｒｉｐ　ｔｏ　ｅｎｄ．　Ｐｌｅａｓｅ，　ｔｅｌｌ　ｍｅ，I　ｗｉｌｌ　ｎｅｖｅｒ　ｓｔｏｐ　ｔｒａｖｅｌｉｎｇ．　Never stop dancing, seeing, believing, rising above. We have gotten to Urumqi and here there are Turks, Muslims, Russians, Chinese, Mongols, and more. For dinner we had incredible Muslim food, and this city is like entering an entirely different realm. Tommorow we ( Read more... )

Tommorow we are entering the Gobi desert, where few men have traveled before:

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It is Sunday, the first Sunday of my new life, and I am wearing the dog collar you fastened around my neck. A new life stretches before me. It begins with the day of rest. I lie back on a broad green leaf and I watch the sun bursting in your womb. What a clabber and clatter it makes! All this expressly for me, what?

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I look out again at the sun--my first full gaze. It is blood-red and men are walking about on the rooftops. Everything above the horizon is clear to me. It is like Easter Sunday. Death is behind me and birth too. I am going to live now among the life maladies. I am going to live the spiritual life of the pygmy, the secret life of the little man in ( Read more... )

Watch out for power,
for its avalanche can bury you,
snow, snow, snow, smothering your mountain.

I look at the strangeness in them and the naturalness they cannot help, in order to find some virtue in the beast in me.

Faces, suddenly suspended above you;
faces that you think it's your business to love
if only you could remember their names.

To the despisers of the body will I speak my word. I wish them neither to learn afresh, nor teach anew, but only to bid farewell to their own bodies,and thus be dumb.

Body am I, and soul so said the child. And why should one not speak like children?

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