Samuel Scoville: Beg to Differ

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Beg to Differ

Empty.
And I beg to differ.

I am monkey & Jane Goodall, too.
Jesus H. Mahogany Christ caught
between a moon & New York City.

Torn between 2 covers.

I speak out of 3 sides of my mouth
at once. This doubleness may easily
make me a poor friend & colleague
sometimes says Henry T, goldbrick
& slack dog.

Massive men lead lives of quiet
desperation & I wouldn’t walk
across the street to save the world,

My monumental humility.

But clamor and cry and cock-a-
doodle do if only to wake my
neighbors up.

Presumptuous arrogance.
Fear in a handful of dust.

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AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 9:07 PM
Hi< I am from Australia.
Please find a set of references which give a unique perspective on the various themes suggested by your posting.

http://www.dabase.org/not2p1.htm
http://www.beezone.com/news.html
http://www.dabase.org/coopdoub.htm

http://www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/truth-life.aspx
http://www.fearnomorezoo.org/literature/observe_learn.php
http://www.dabase.org/2armP1.htm#ch1
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I choose, as a determining POINT in my life, to acknowledge a bullet fired into the armpit of my grandfather, Samuel Scoville, Jr. by a thief in the night sometime in the late 19^thc.

The thief escaped, my grandfather having pulled his own pistol from beneath the pillow, squeezing off a couple of rounds and sending the burglar scurrying into the Connecticut night...

For reasons of family notoriety, the incident was reported in both New York and Philadelphia papers. A former roommate in Philly called up Young Goodman Sam, inviting him down for a weekend gala: The Yale-Penn Football game. “You can take my sister Katherine, and chaperone me and my fiancé, he said.

In those days couples were not advised to be alone. Unaccompanied.

Sam took a steam-driven locomotive train down to Philadelphia, escorted Katherine to the leather-helmet contest, fell in love, asked her to marry him. She did & they lived more or less HAP-ily ever after, generating a tribe of offspring who like wise generated in kind so that if it hadn’t of been for that bullet, well, it’s impossible to begin to consider how unimaginably different life-as-we-know-it would have been. No one can say.

For one thing: YOU, dear Reader, wouldn’t be reading THIS HERE right now, resurrecting these words to walk around in your skull-haus this very be-here-now moment. So even you are impacted forever by that bullet.

(I could drive up to Connecticut right now, retrieve the small bite of lead, drop it in your hand and remind you how co-incidental our life is—how inexplicable, how arbitrary & selective our accounts, how much we omit which is also absolutely necessary, how inadequate our because & affects.)

The bullet is a NECESSARY but INSUFFICIENT cause of who-I-am, without which any explanation would be incomplete. Sam Scoville

Samuel Scoville

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Beg to Differ

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