tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post4061115471566756450..comments2023-08-13T11:58:31.588-04:00Comments on Ghulf Genes: Capital's Slow SuicideADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-16569047782080709932009-05-02T14:34:00.000-04:002009-05-02T14:34:00.000-04:00Talk of time and distance! A quite amazing coincid...Talk of time and distance! A quite amazing coincidence. Just three days ago I was reading a part of the Ramayana called Sita-Swayamvara in a book I hadn't touched in more than twenty years. In English, of course. I hadn't gotten very far, but it's the same point of reference you give. Rama had just broken the bow of Rudra, and the marriage to Sita lay ahead.<br /><br />Below the superficial, we're all alike. And poets everywhere, however infinitely varied and original, ultimately hear the same drum.ADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-78619338571257659452009-05-02T01:51:00.000-04:002009-05-02T01:51:00.000-04:00Your last line is haunting.Talking about cultures ...Your last line is haunting.Talking about cultures you must have heard about Ramayana the greatest Indian Epic.In the context of Raavan who is Lord Shri Ram's adversary and has abducted Ram's wife Sita,the author Tulsidas says exactly the same thing.<br />Jaako Prabhu Daarun Dukh dehi <br />taaki mati pehle har lehi<br />It have been quoting it all along when people act silly in spite of the evident self destruction.<br />Whats' amazing is that two philosophers have said exactly the same thing even though they were separated by time and distance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-54076299613396818772009-02-14T14:58:00.000-05:002009-02-14T14:58:00.000-05:00Fridge is going downstairs. The old one gave up af...Fridge is going downstairs. The old one gave up after 40 years of service. People may be dispensable, but machines are loyal!!ADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-28353790847576519542009-02-13T19:31:00.000-05:002009-02-13T19:31:00.000-05:00New fridge? Monique and I want to know if it's goi...New fridge? Monique and I want to know if it's going upstairs or downstairs.<BR/><BR/>BTW, I'm typing this on my iPod in the Phoenix airport. Why are we in Phoenix, not San Diego? Oh, we have a few imploding-capitalism remarks to make about Northwest.<BR/><BR/>More to the point of the post, I recall "companies automating themselves into oblivion" was the theme of Vonnegut's Player Piano. (His first novel, if I remember correctly.) It's been years since I've read it, but I recall liking it quite a bit.Patioboaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01600842825460753192noreply@blogger.com