"When will the quest end for fortune and fame,

This tyrant of early rising and retiring late?

Riding on mules they long for noble steeds;

By now prime ministers, they hope to be kings.

For food and raiment they suffer stress and strain,

Never fearingYama's call to reckoning.

Seeking wealth and power to give to sons of sons,

There's not one ever willing to turn back."

--spoken by Sun WuKong

"Eternity is in love with the productions of Time." William Blake 

utter dismay has wrung me
from the green peach tree
like a thin long white cloud

"A sign or promise of what
 is to come: "an earnest
 of the world's desire not to see
 the conflict repeated elsewhere".

within thy earnest burnest
a break for the people
of eternal fire...feel it !

j.a. knolls

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JK Rowling peers behind the curtains at the nastiness of her peers

Rowling's adult novel has upset middle-class critics with its attack on snide, middle-class hypocrisy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/30/jk-rowling-novel-middle-class-nastiness

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  • The Guardian, Sunday 30 September 2012 16.02 EDT

JK Rowling with her new novel Photograph: Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images

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Behind Spain's turmoil lies a cronyism that stifles the young and ambitious

The country needs more than a bailout. It needs a revolutionary change in its hidebound social structures.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2012/sep/30/john-carlin-spain-work-debt?

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