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The Only Appropriate Response

is silence.

And sSs, are you the moon?

It's No Hidin' Thus Heaven... Dwarfs

We Found Her

Drawing believed to be by Theodor Hosemann, coloring by printer.

In the comments of the last post Dave called us (Sinners, Bleeders, Namers, Matthew, sSs, UMMO, and Sleepy Heads) the Seven Dwarfs, and in so doing provided the most important missing piece of the www.sinnersbleeders.blogspot.com puzzle:

A quest. The quest for Snow White. We were fragmenting, and still are -but now we know who can put us back together.

Almost before we'd begun searching, our quest was over. We found her easily, because she's right here.

Do you see?

She's promised to answer any of our questions, and perhaps some of yours. It's not every day you get to ask Snow White questions. Further clarification (or not) in comments. We surpassed our word limit two sentences ago.

post by The Seven Dwarfs

No One Knows

However many interior steps are set out, nothing will happen
unless divine aid comes to our assistance.
-Bonaventure in Mystical Itineraries

The young skeptic says, "I have a right to think for myself."
But the old skeptic, the complete skeptic, says,
"I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all."
-GK Chesterton in Orthodoxy

Sinners, Namers, and Bleeders do not know what is happening.
sSs does not know what is happening.
UMMO does not know.
Matthew does not know.
and, as usual, Sleepy Heads is sleeping.

post by Matthew

The Structure?

post by NAMERS

Wool Yamm Ess Brrrrr Oh Zzzz

Dear sSs,
This is Bleeders insisting on using words. But to counter that violation I'll use my words to discuss the others (Sinners and Namers) rather than myself. I hope that'll make you happy. I know you are our god, and I'm trying to be obedient to the spirit of your instruction to avoid the abundance of words here at sinnersbleeders; but I'm a word-y guy.

Sinners and Namers have been reading a lot of William S. Burroughs this year. But not his fiction. He's famous for his novels, but they don't particularly care for them. Not that they are against them. They just find them tough slogging and little pleasure. They both read Junkie and liked it somewhat, and then tried reading some others like Cities of the Red Night and Naked Lunch, and decided they'd rather masturbate or smoke a cigarette than read those convoluded, cut up sentences. They're lazy readers. For example: they like Raymond Chandler in part because his sentences are short and don't have much punctuation.

Sinners and Namers are interested in Burroughs because of his non-fiction. They like him for the philosophy that comes out in his articles (Sinners thinks this one in particular is interesting), interviews, and non-fiction books like The Job, The Burroughs File, and The Yage Letters. Through his ideas he has become, for them, something of a weirdo Saint. Personally, I don't find him quite that impressive.

You, blog reader/skimmer, do not need to read Burroughs' words if you don't want to. If you'd prefer you can just look at pictures of the man. Look with some attention and see what looking offers. I've gone through google and bing images and pulled out my favourites. Maybe all you need to know is in the pictures.

Post by Bleeders.
I haven't provided sources for the photographs, 'cos it's just too much bother. Sorry. Google 'William S. Burroughs.'

The Excluded Middle

We can never get close to the truth except through lying. -Abbas Kiarostami

We deny the earth principle of the third excluded term (the excluded middle enunciated by Aristotle) according to which propositions can only be true or false. The whole ontology of terrestrial thinkers is saturated with expressions like "to be," "I am not," "I exist," without any option for other forms of different content.
Unless you yourselves clarify your forms of informative communication, the process of seeking the truth will be very laborious and slow. -UMMO
go ahead, click this: )+(

There is no such thing as the mafia. -J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI

images are details from paintings. In order they are San Bruno by Francisco Ribalta, Saint Peter Martyr by Fra Angelico, and The Egyptian God Harpocrates by Jan Harmensz Muller

post by Namers (how's that sSs? Better?)

Sshhhh

Harpocrates
god of silence
whispers through the pages
"Sshhhh!
Sinners, Bleeders, and Namers have used too many words."
post by sSs

Who is Kenneth Rexroth?

In describing love and marriage the American poet Kenneth Rexroth said,

The process as I see it goes something like this: from abandon to erotic mysticism, from erotic mysticism to the mysticism of sacramental marriage, thence to the realization of the ethical mysticism of universal responsibility.

Wikipedia says in 1941 "Rexroth married the nurse and poet Marie Kass. They opened up their home to weekly literary discussions, anti-war protesters, and Japanese-American convalescents avoiding internment." Wikipedia also says, "Rexroth self-identified as a philosophical anarchist," and that he was "a pacifist, a conscientious objector during World War II, and was actively involved with helping Japanese-American internees."

Who is Kenneth Rexroth? I don't know. But I'm enjoying finding out.

A while ago my father told me about a man he'd met whose job it was, during the 1940s in Ontario, to transport German and Japanese-Canadian prisoners from one prison camp to another. Dad said he was a really nice guy. I believe him wholeheartedly. What a fucked up time.

post by NAMERS. The image is a collage of the military awards of Alexander Haig. I don't know why.