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NOVELTY_AGAIN

                                      February  2, 2005

It's not a new thought: 
"maybe novelty is overrated".

I come back to it over
and over again.                     And maybe that's a   
                                    repetition of someone
                                    else's thought...     

                                            TOADKEEPER
   Anything that resonates
   is to be distrusted:
   Maybe it isn't really New?         anti-romantic.
                                      anti-dionsysian
          NULL_HINGED
                                      Is this entirely sane?

                                      How can a people
                                      live like this?


                             Something that was in
                             the air back in the
                             intellectual world of
                             the seventies:

                             They liked to talk about
                             raising consciousness, and
                             they didn't care if it was         Or false 
                             self-consciousness.                consciousness?
                                                                     
                                      FLIRT 

Maybe this is just another
one of those cycles.

Every so often someone will
insist that it's time for        Sometimes I speculate this may
everything to be New again.      happen again, and I use clumsy
                                 expressions like "a new 'sixties'
                                 may soon be upon us".

                                 But it goes back further than
                                 the sixties...  the original
                                 "Romantic" movement, was the
                                 literary and artistic arm of
                                 the political changes
                                 following the French Revolution.


   The revolution: Dionysian abandon,
   instinctive, passionate action.

   The new regime:
   Rigid, narrow intellectual doctrines.
   Apollo's golden manacles.

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