Air Water Ground: Just sticking this here so i can read it.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Just sticking this here so i can read it.

NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, .... on the inhabitants of West-India...With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them.

By Bartholomew de las Casas, "a Bishop there and Eye-Witness of most of these Barbarous Cruelties"
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20321/20321-8.txt

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Spinning Away (Eno/Kale)

Up on a hill, as the day dissolves

With my pencil turning moments into line
High above in the violent sky
A silent silver plane – it draws a golden chain

One by one, all the stars appear
As the great winds of the planet spiral in
Spinning away, like the night sky at Arles
In the million insect storm, the constellations form

On a hill, under a raven sky
I have no idea exactly what I’ve drawn
Some kind of change, some kind of spinning away
With every single line moving further out in time
And now as the pale moon rides (in the stars)
Her form in my pale blue lines (in the stars)
And there, as the world rolls round (in the stars)
I draw, but the lines move round (in the stars)
There, as the great wheels blaze (in the stars)
I draw, but my drawing fades (in the stars)
And now, as the old sun dies (in the stars)
I draw, and the four winds sigh (in the stars)