“Permanent” needles may cause permanent damage. No needles are really permanent. Some last much longer than others but all should be changed from time to time. Play safe. Ask your dealer for the new Columbia Needle.
Fundamentalisms
Fundamentalisms are an abomination not only to mere ethical considerations, but also even to the constraints of the faiths they distort.
Let the bright day turn to darkness for him.
(6) “Devastate the earth where he was created, wreck his dwelling.”
(7) “Let the battle-array resound against him.”
(8) “Let your ferocious battle force rage on against him.”
(9) “Let the entirety of it make the dust storm block him.”
(10) “Draw the bow. Let the arrow become poison to him.”
(11) “Let your features become changed like a gallu-demon.”
(12) “Send out fog, so that he may not distinguish your face.”
(13) “Let your radiance go against him.”
(14) “Let your attack be glorious, may you have radiance.”
(15) “Let the sun not shine on him.”
(16) “Let the bright day turn to darkness for him.”
‘Hand of mankind’ against him
(1.5.3:1)If a man has vertigo, his limbs are ‘poured out’, 2 he continually suffers 1 from depression 2 (and) fear, (then) there is ‘hand of mankind’ against him. 3 (To cure it:) Silver, gold, bronze, iron, anzaḫḫu-glass, ḫuluḫḫu-glass, black frit, zalāqu-stone in [a leather (bag around his neck)].
Text Glitches
Book Purge
About to do a bit of a book purge, harnessing ever-fluctuating honesty with myself about what I will actually ever reread, and shifting feelings about what other justifications for thing-graspingness are valid.
Animal Madness
Braitman, Laurel. Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves, 2014.
Finished: 2014-11-11
The Origin of Satan
Pagels, Elaine H. The Origin of Satan. New York: Random House, 1995.
Finished: 2014-11-7
If people thought emotion, tree world man Chaos song.
If people thought emotion, tree world man Chaos song.
Under the Volcano
Lowry, Malcolm. Under the Volcano. New York: HarperCollins, 2014.
Finished: 2014-11-6