The big stone

[ishmael]

In alchemy, the stone is the mojo. It's called all kinds of thing, from a cup to gold, but it's a stone. If you get that far it's also a distillate of the work, an essence.

I knew a stone, I've written about it before. A gig damn boulder that had fallen by the river side. Sex was the stone's mojo. We wanted each other so much there, but were too young.

The stone. Sat there, impersonal, imperial, bold. I hated it. I went to see it often, broken beer bottles littering our bed.

It had fallen from the cliff, above the river. A huge mother. And there we lay. The essence of the work.

This is a secret, try to treat it well.

[LeeG]

not much of a secret by now.

[ishmael]

No, it really is. I don't know it, so I can't say much.

[LeeG]

no, not really, you keep talking about it

[ishmael]

Talking about it is the very beginning.

[Cosmo Lengro]

Gad, what a wretched creature musing upon a phallic symbol in the middle of the night.

Sad, almost beyond the beyond.

[ 11-26-2005, 11:17 PM: Message edited by: Cosmo Lengro ]

[ishmael]

No one comes, unless called.

[LeeG]

look before you leap

[ishmael]

Leap before you think.

[L.W. Baxter]

"The Big Stoner"

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

I got so drunk last night, I felt something cold against my cheek. I looked up, and it was the floor.

[JimD]

I was going to ignore this thread but that would have meant passing the big stone. It seemed less painful just to say something and move on.

[L.W. Baxter]

This is where Donn would drop a pic of a big stone, if he wasn't "indisposed".

Sigh... I really miss that jagged, calcified concretion. Donn, I mean, not his kidney stone.

[LeeG]

we already know the likely answer

By Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Saturday, November 26, 2005; Page A25

The question most Americans want answered about Iraq is this: When will our troops come home?

We already know the likely answer. In 2006, they will begin to leave in large numbers. By the end of the year, we will have redeployed about 50,000. In 2007, a significant number of the remaining 100,000 will follow. A small force will stay behind -- in Iraq or across the border -- to strike at any concentration of terrorists.

That is because we cannot sustain 150,000 Americans in Iraq without extending deployment times, sending soldiers on fourth and fifth tours, or mobilizing the National Guard. Even if we could, our large military presence -- while still the only guarantor against a total breakdown -- is increasingly counterproductive. A liberation has become an occupation.

[Memphis Mike]

I feel more sorry for those that have a need to post about the war at 12:00 midnight than someone who writes about a rock.

[BrianW]

I hear ya Mike... :(

[LeeG]

Originally posted by ishmael:
Talking about it is the very beginning.

[ishmael]

BTW Cosmo, it wasn't phallic in any common sense. Large, almost the size of a tennis court, and very, um, passive. I dunno about you, but that doesn't fit my phallus. To coin Freud, sometimes a stone is just a stone.

Flat, reclining, waiting, a bit remote so great for nookie with the sweetie. We rode our bikes there. Thirteen. Ho, golly, thirteen!

Hard beside a river full of similar strikers washed out by the end of the last ice age, surrounded by big deciduous trees, and full of the rush of water. I think the geologist would call the setting a ravine. Full of jagged violence that we didn't quite understand, that rush of much bigger water ten thousand years ago.

When the summer afternoon sun was just right, warm and slanting through the leaves, it was a magical spot. I'm sure it still is.

P.S. Lee is okay, just a bit single-minded. As much as we chastise each other I like him okay. I know I make him mad about his lack of sentences, but he has gotten better.

[ 11-27-2005, 07:39 AM: Message edited by: ishmael ]

[LeeG]

talking about it is the beginning and end

[Victor]

You make me feel like such a philistine, Ish! Next you're gonna fall in love with a sheet of plywood! :D

[uncas]

Okay for you guys across the pond...Why is an English weight measure a STONE...
I.E., she weighs 14 stone! I know kind ofd a hefty woman!!! ;)

stone = 14 lbs right?

[ 11-27-2005, 08:22 AM: Message edited by: uncas ]

[LeeG]

If she's 6' 14 stone could be mighty nice.

[uncas]

Lee...might be good on the foredeck! :D

[LeeG]

Arrrr,,and she could wear an eye patch!

[uncas]

Lee...at 6' she can wear or not wear anything she wants... :D

[Chris Coose]

Originally posted by ishmael:
I went to see it often, broken beer bottles littering our bed.
This is better Sunday morning reading than Malcom Lowry.

[uncas]

Too bad they broke...I mean if they had been returnable bottles...could have made a few bucks if they hadn't broken.

[ishmael]

Brown, Strohs necks and bodies. Rowdies used our bed for beer parties. Sacrilige! ;)

[uncas]

Strohs.... :eek: I have not seen that stuff since I used to bartend in APALACHA....Didn't even know it was made anymore...

[Domesticated_Mr. Know It All]

Dutch drank Strohs and look what happened to him! :D

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