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See the monkey climb the tree



Everything he needs is there



Protection from the limbs



Fruit for the taking







Perhaps it is the center of his world



Where friends and family gather



They talk amongst themselves in glee



Swinging from vine to vine







No poison in the river, a good year



And the plain is fertile yet



And plows don’t mow the field



And weapons are not yet… Continue

These new feet, high arched and sprite

White as the bone beneath,

Having traversed streams and cobbled walks

Were made for old paths in high places



This cold heart, having eaten Fear

And pumped the blue blood of the Ancient

Into Red with the rising and falling of the lung

Now bursts into flame, a fire bringing Courage



This stale brain, grey and useless as polluted snow

Having been engendered by the twin serpents

Rising from the Ancient… Continue

Marc Chagall, painter - Informed by the Bible, Chagall found that in the Biblical Universe, men could float through the ether willy-nilly, defying gravity and the laws of physics. Chagall's use of color and whimsical flight of fancy motifs (men and women in loving embraces, floating over houses and livestock), animals floating through the air with smiles on their faces, and so on, are a reminder that religion need not be taken so…

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Or Grayling contra Comte-Sponville.

Years ago, Andre' Comte-Sponville wrote a little book entitled 'A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues' in which he enumerated the clasiical and developing Virtues and supplied explanations and examinations of each. His book, though thorough and technically proficient left me with somwhat a cold feeling. Something was lacking, though at the time, I couldn't quite put my finger on what that something was.

Enter A.C. Grayling with this…

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