the shit he stumbled into or rather whahe was predisposed to  that fascinated him  he needed bucketsa bucket brigade not the usual harried line of men slopping water hand to hand to put out a structure fire but a brigade in line to take his shit out he couldnt move he was distended 

                                              HELP 

                                                           if he could run it would be like running in one way and passing himself running in the opposite direction 

                                         and because he was politebecause pedestrians were few and far between hed be keen of their approachkeen of that timing to lift his head and acknowledge them say Hello say Good morning Good afternoon 

         only to find he was greeting himself

not that thatd distress him

hed been to carnivals

he walked in their House of Mirrors

why wouldnt a House of Mirrors present outside on side streets church parking lots the barkers hucksters erstwhile sham artists

its human nature 

                   To dupe or not to dupe thats the question

 

he was all warmedheated up hed read about the Sixth Century BC when science philosophy and religion were not separate 

         Right On! Hallelujah! 

                                he read about the sages of Ionia who founded the Milesian School who called themselves hylozoists those who think matter is alive they saw no distinction between the animate and inanimate  matter and spirit 

      wouldnt get an argument from him he was a hylozoist GAWDBLESSYA himself they saw all forms of existence as manifestations of physis all endowed with life and spirituality

Thales declared all things full of gods

Anaximander saw the universe as a kind of organism which was supportednurtured by pneuma a cosmic breath in the same manner that the human body was supportednurtured by air

Heraclitus of Ephesus believed the world was in perpetual changeflux eternally becoming his principle or symbol was fire continuous flowchange of all things and those changes arose from dynamic cyclic interplay of opposites pairs of opposites were a unity  and this Unity containing and transcending all opposing forces he called Logos

 

6th Century BC more than two millennia earlier 

                                                    Fuck if he wasnt a hylozoist

Nice to finally find his identity 

                                Evenif it sounded like a sneeze

 

2154,  Thursday,  30  1. 92

1239,  Sunday,  14  3. 21