hidden in a tome part a poem   The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

                     Shoshana Zuboff

Antonio Machado

                     Traveler, there is no road; the road is made as you go.                   

then Shoshana tosses her two cents

                                        . . . “first modernity” marks the time when life became “individualized” for great numbers of people as they separated from traditional norms, meanings, and rules. That meant each life became an open-ended reality to be discovered rather than a certainty to be enacted.

discovery

discoverers

uncoverers

           Oh the things one can find anhad under covers

one particular time stuck with him

                                    they were havin a riot  evening  new moon  lights out  streetlight enteredsifted in through nearlyclosed blinds not that they could see were under a hugeheavy chenille bedspread stripping each other naked  in heat he went to dive between her legs had thought she sensed his intention she brought a knee upAwfuckbloodiedbroke his nose

                                                           not necessarily the lubricant of choice

                    

    they made do

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Edgar Winters  Undercover Man  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZQiIPYSH-A

reality whips dreams or dreams reality

                                                          dance with that for a bit

 

had read in Red Scare by Clay Risen that the private secretary to Britains Lord Inverchapel handed Dean Acheson President Trumans undersecretary of state an envelope explaining that the message therein “a blue piece of paper” diplomat-speak a message of utmost urgency and confidentiality meant for Secretary of State George Marshall

Acheson realised the communique was to advise Marshall that Greece was about to fall to Soviet-backed Communists the British were not going to stop them

 

    “a blue piece of paper”

                                was dreaming of a wife of a friend  Susanne  an S not a Z she said when introducing herself  she offered to help him look for a blue file folder he absently misplaced somewhere in the house

within were pages of a manuscript and several letters he needed to conclude and sendthey were long overdue

 

    a blue file folder

when he woke they did not find it

                                 he immediately went to his studio and eventually found  slipped down between top-spiraled sketch books tall art books an Atlas  the folder

and indeed

             inside it was an abandoned story waiting for it to gel and two letters  one in a sealedstamped envelope the second unsealed  the last sentence  . . . people are arriving, celebrating Halloween, have had three White Russians, can’t buy a drink, my Dude impersonation, Big Lebowski, worth growing my hair long, growing the itchy goatee.

 

    who whips who

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https://lithub.com/between-existential-fear-and-isolationist-exhaustion-the-united-states-on-the-eve-of-the-cold-war/

Gutterballs  Lebowski  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz0bwQr5xWY

                                                                                   almost makes him want to go bowling

. . . anhows the back he had called calling it the back not her back was an attemptperhaps feeble to distract her from hers

    It started acting up again, but I squashed it with medication.

From organising the shed

Yeah. I was impatientcan think of three particular times I was in a poor position to lift, should have moved a few things for better, more stable lifts.

Impatient can be a bitch

                            Thasaid I only overcame mine after two  twothree three  surgeries an recoveries Physical therapy

Hard won patience

Now Ive the patience of a saint

A saint? You?

A saint who plays with himsel . .

. . That, that I can agree, although, again, your colorful explanations.

                                                                          Do you ever explain, color inside the lines?

No    Borders

                   Do not trespass

Lines like rules are meant to be broken

    For instance earlier  after you had tweaked your back

                                                                You mentioned you felt it subsided

I recall, yes.

As you said subsided  S  U  B    Hearing the tone of your voiceexpressing wha you endured

    I thought sobsided  S  O  B  Tears

Right on.

             Tears of frustration, discomfort, impatience.  Sonofabitch.

Pick on someone else.

Kiddo

          Reminder to be smart

Tell me about it. I’d rather it cleared its throat, tapped me on the shoulder, I wouldn’t do that if I were you.

A warning

Yes.

Not stab you in the back

Had to be it.

                I can’t turn my body enough to stab myself.

Very colourful    Excellent

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Culture Club  That’s The Way  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCM18h4xwPQ