Deified dada

The other day I re-read Stephen Mitchell's introduction to his translation (or whatever it is, maybe it's an actual translation, maybe he reads Hebrew, I don't know) of the book of Job... the thing I always remember about it is the idea that Satan disappears because Satan is assimilated back into God but it turns out that idea is Carl Jung's? And is sort of mentioned only in passing. Anyway the thing about Mitchell is--well, if you've heard of Stephen Mitchell it's probably something to do with Eastern philosophy. I first heard of him when I bought his tranlation (or whatever it is, I don't kthink it's an actual translation) of the Tao Te Ching some thirty years ago (it was probably ten years later that I bought Ursula Le Guin's not-translation of the Tao Te Ching, which familiarized me with the concept (Heidegger did it too, in German, of Chuang Tzu maybe?--not "published" and presumably never will be (ugh but when they run out of other stuff in his desk drawers they probably will), but given all the HEAVY HEAVY stuff we all know Heidegger says about language, isn't it amazing he produced versions of texts in languages he didn't read, maybe that might be some indication y'all oughta lighten up, I dunno), but it was only sometime in the last few years that I learned that Mitchell doesn't actually read all the languages of the books he produces "translation" of either. Um I got lost in the parenthesis there, sorry, I am drunk, uh... but where have we strayed to? Oh right: Mitchell I guess is basically Buddhist or something, anyway, he seems to be saying that the point of Job is that nothing matters, fucking Buddhist nihilism, EXCEPT: ... ??? ...that all of that tremendous suffering is exactly to demonstrate to Job that... THIS! WHAT???

I mean I still don't buy it. Fuck that. No really, fuck that. You don't need to go through all that to get to that point. Whatever paltry but soul-shattering painful shit I have gone through did not get me to that. I got to that when I was twelve years old or whatever lying on my bed staring at the ceiling. Seriously. And then I forgot about it, "in the grip of an ideology". And then I remembered again. And suffering DISTRACTS EVERYONE FROM IT. So fuck that shit.

But I mean I take the point, sure, maybe Buddhism has a point, I don't know, sure, maybe, I dunno. Fuck it though.

Hard but true

Wouldn't it be great if the clocks went back to like 3 pm last Tuesday though.. no that would not be so great, I mean for a lot of people that would be terrible, but like 3 pm yesterday, that would be wondrful wouldn't it

(Writers Tears still, uh oops my screen just went huge uh)

Being thrown at you

I just realized I got confused about what year it is today and thought it's 2024. LOOK I'M BASICALLY 50. Why did I open this though, uhhhh... fuck I have completely forgotten, but at least I have switched to Mill Street Organic, please stand by.