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How do we break the chain of endless war?: A conversation with five friends in Vermont

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Sometimes I feel

we are being played by primal instincts

sex, power and death,

as Freud would have it.

Dylan (paraphrasing Jesus) had it right:

the last will be first, and the first will be last,

(will be first will be last, etc, etc. . .) .

Meanwhile all the things

that make life worth living whither.

It's like the Grail legend,

Percival.

In a nutshell: The Fisher King is mortally wounded

and the land is perishing.

Percival (one of Arthur's knights of the Roundtable),

is invited to a feast in the mysterious castle

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Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and (more...)
 

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