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| User: | commonreader (481251) 
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| Name: | Common Reader |
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| commonreader | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| Bio: | As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn.
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breath of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market-Place;
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch.
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch.
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings.
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Heading said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Heading said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew,
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four-
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man-
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:-
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
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| Memories: | 214 entries |
| Pictures: | fewer than 10 public |
| Interests: | 149: allogrooming, anna may wong, anti-feminist propaganda, asian-american cinema, attachment parenting, attachment theory, attila the hun, audra mcdonald, avar campaigns, avars, battle of tours, boxing, breastfeeding, buddhist propaganda, canadian animation, candy, cats, central asia, chard, charlemagne, chechen pop music, children's television workshop, chinggis khan, clare boothe luce, cole porter, coloring, cooking, crafts, daintiness, dame vera lynn, disposable cameras, disposable cleaning products, documentaries, dollhouses, early music, ectoparasites, edith piaf, educational placemats, elizabeth david, end of the raj, ensemble project ars nova, errol morris, ethnopediatrics, feminism, feminist propaganda, fiddle, filthy folk songs, flower and willow world, flylady, food, frog and toad, geiko, geisha, genghis khan, gilbert keith chesterton, goats, historical race riots, history of recorded music, homemaking, homeschooling, hordes, horsehead fiddle, housekeeping, hugelkultur, huns, ikea, iki, involuntary complexity, irving berlin, james wong howe, jim henson, juanita hall, julie andrews, kate bush, keeping my neck warm, kit williams, knitting, kokichi mikimoto, kublai khan, kuki shuzo, lactation, lahars, landfills, laundry, lisa carver, liza lou, m. f. k. fisher, maiko, making fiends, making fun of people, making fun of traditionalism, marco polo, marsupials, martinis, mary engelbreit, mongolia, mongolians, morin khuur, motown, mourning san francisco, muji, muppets, musicals, my baby, nancy kwan, neopets, not getting bird flu, not getting marburg, not getting monkeypox, not getting sars, pandas, patchwork, penny whistles, permaculture, phil spector, propaganda, racination, reading, rene guenon, robyn posin, sacred monarchy, sammy fong, seceded households, secession, sesame street, shriekback, silk road, singapore national day songs, snowglobes, spanish literature, st. john maximovitch, st. john the wonderworker, step-parenting, stephen foster, stuffing everyone into burqas, sustainable agriculture, tasha tudor, the crusades, the golden horde, the mongol horde, the muppet show, traditionalism, unintentional communities, volcanoes, walking away from omelas, war nerd, wine, women, yo yo ma |
| Schools: | None listed |
| Friends: |  | 218: | 19091977, a_steep_hill, adityanath, aelf, aineotter, alienne, alittlenothing, altamira16, alustrialcrafts, amarama, anahata_adaro, anarqueso, annlarimer, aranel, arian1, arlie, auntie_christ, ayodele, blood_water, boxofdelights, brianfey, brienf, bucky_sinister, bunya, burningblue, byleee, caitlinburke, camieal, candid, capitalism_yeah, cdpoint, cellistkjp, celticorthodox, chiaaysa, christrifle, chzmongrrrweeps, circe_magnifica, clanwilliam, codepoet, colinmarshall, creactivity, crotchrot, cruft, crunchymama, daftcow, descentintomael, devulgari, djswifty, docscarabus, doublespeak, dr_nemechek, dr_smarmy, dracunculus, dsyndicate, e_tiner, ellabessibeth, emmabovary, emmacrew, emmycantbemeeko, enoughrope, ericaceous, estellongshanks, ettinsmuir, evilwhitemale, exmillennialgrl, eyeno, eyeteeth, fear, fearfuloptimist, flowerdrumsong, flyingcamel, foreverbeach, galexiegirl, geminica, ghostsanddreams, glamarama, gnolyn, goodall, goodliver, grapesoda, greenstripe, grodwona, gunguru16, happycakes, harunoame, herbaliser, hillaroon, huaman, ilipodscrill, interdictor, ithryn, jack_burroghs, jaenanda, jamesla, jette, jmoor, jordan179, jordanbaker, jourdannex, jsl32, keith418, kelilah, kiad, knightchik, lapsatus, learninghome, letisca, linaelyn, lord_whimsy, ltdead, lupoleboucher, macrame_owl, madwriter, magpiesf, maid_in_bedlam, majbaj, malkhos, mammothblog, manofbronze, maria_sputnik, markedformetal, marlowe1, merovingian, miarose, missbrunette, moderndayknight, modestproposals, mommydama, mongoosey, morsefan, mosellegreen, msyuppiescum, muoi, mylaar, nanosecond, nary, neoijlc, niccimae, noetic_toe, noisyparker, nosce, notafraid08, nou, nuncstans, nux_vomica, o_lucky_man, oakenking, oddiophile, olegvolk, one4k4, paintdrinker, pallasathene82, parrish_relics, pascalbijou, pedx, penelopesque, perfection1144, plasticsturgeon, pockawida, praxismundi, prester_scott, ririsu_ai, riverkids, robo_tom, rome1453, roxy_craft, sammee42, sarahblank, saralilprincess, saturnic_tides, saveannica, sbroadway, schneckerock, sculpin, seriesfinale, sisiphus, skwashy, slutbunwalla, snippy, so_there, spoonfeeding, star_sign, stevenwhunter, stresskitten, surrealestate22, svashtar, swaz, tableau_vivant, tadziu, teffdogg, terl_girl, thepreciouss, thermopylae, thinggtwoo, tiny_piano, tinymammoth, toad_hall, tupelo, ubixtiz, uke, uncle_salty, urban_homestead, velvetpirate, versaphile, viggorlijah, violetlovestars, vivcore, wendywoowho, whingnut, wilfulcait, wobewy, wrog, yechezkiel, zarinov, zepp0, zeppo, zibblsnrt, ztepfinat0r |  | 79: | advanced_knit, advent_daily, alices_house, amtrak, antiobjectivism, attemptfailed, baaaaabyanimals, bahasaindonesia, bird_macros, blessedvirgin, bookfind, browncardy, cake_decorating, city_chickens, coinherence, coloring, electric_trains, ethnic_fashion, fairytale_court, fiddle, flyladies, flylady, gkchesterton, hijabi, hsiyuchi, humanae_vitae, humanaevitaeedu, iloveannlarimer, kids_crafts, knithistoric, knitting, labri, laceandflora, little_world, lolfaire, loltheorists, ltk_afghan_book, luftschiff_abt, mamatron_sucks, marble_madness, med_embroidery, miltonic, modest_style, netflix, obselitism, ofmythandpaint, oldtimeradio, orthodoxy, pantry, pastjewels, pax_et_caritas, prettydresses, radicallearning, railfans, saintoftheday, sca, seattle, sf_muni, spreading_wings, steer_the_craft, storybookland, toon_memories, trad_folk, un_fashion, unassistedbirth, uneasylistening, urban_flowerpot, urban_nature, validate_me, victorianlife, vintage_fabric, vintageadverts, violinstudents, volcanology, walgreens, weasleysweaters, whatwasthatbook, woodworking, wtf_nature |  | 9: | _miss_manners, eject_eject, englishcut, hascheezburger, hiljournalart, pepysdiary, prepare_or_die, showmethedata, spamusement |
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| Friend of: | 172: 19091977, a_bag_of_sand, abyrneseyeview, adityanath, aelf, agent139, alienne, alittlenothing, altamira16, alustrialcrafts, amarama, anahata_adaro, anarqueso, anus_mcstinky, aranel, arian1, arlie, auntie_christ, ayun, blood_water, boxofdelights, boxofsoap, bucky_sinister, buffett, bunya, burningblue, camieal, candid, capitalism_yeah, cdpoint, cellistkjp, celticorthodox, chiaaysa, christrifle, chzmongrrrweeps, circe_magnifica, codepoet, colinmarshall, crotchrot, cruft, crunchymama, dannys_album, daughterofodhin, devulgari, dingodonkey, djswifty, docscarabus, doublespeak, dracunculus, dsyndicate, ellabessibeth, emmacrew, emmycantbemeeko, enoughrope, ericaceous, ettinsmuir, evilwhitemale, expanding_x_man, eyeno, eyeteeth, flyingcamel, foreverbeach, geminica, ghostsanddreams, gorski, greenegirl, greenstripe, gunguru16, happycakes, harunoame, herbaliser, hillaroon, homme_de_terre, huaman, hyerplane, ilipodscrill, interdictor, ithryn, jack_burroghs, jamesla, jessdhp, jesus_thesavior, jette, jmoor, jordan179, jsl32, kelilah, knightchik, learninghome, loic, lord_whimsy, lupoleboucher, macrame_owl, madwriter, majbaj, manofbronze, markedformetal, merovingian, moderndayknight, modestproposals, mommydama, mongoosey, morsefan, mrcommonreader, msyuppiescum, muoi, mylaar, nanosecond, nary, neoijlc, niccimae, noetic_toe, noisyparker, nosce, notafraid08, nou, nuncstans, nux_vomica, oakenking, one4k4, paintdrinker, parrish_relics, pedx, penelopesque, perfection1144, phixus, plasticsturgeon, pockawida, popehead, praxismundi, prester_scott, raghnild, rjlippincott, robo_tom, roxy_craft, saltdawg, sammee42, sassycheryl, saturnic_tides, sbroadway, schneckerock, seriesfinale, sisiphus, skwashy, slutbunwalla, snippy, stevenwhunter, stresskitten, svashtar, swaz, ... |
| Member of: | 105: 400words, advanced_knit, advent_daily, alices_house, amtrak, antiobjectivism, askdocsavage, attemptfailed, baaaaabyanimals, babywearer, bahasaindonesia, big_kids, bird_macros, blessedvirgin, bookfind, browncardy, cake_decorating, catholicism, catholicmoms, city_chickens, coinherence, coloring, electric_trains, eliminationcomm, ethnic_fashion, fairytale_court, fam, fiddle, flyladies, flylady, gender_petition, gkchesterton, happyhousewives, hijabi, hsiyuchi, humanae_vitae, humanaevitaeedu, iloveannlarimer, japaneseroyals, kids_crafts, knithistoric, knitting, labri, laceandflora, little_world, lolfaire, lolhistory, loltheorists, ltk_afghan_book, luftschiff_abt, mamasmilk, mamatron_sucks, manichaean, marble_madness, med_embroidery, miltonic, modest_style, mommymilk, mothering, naturalliving, netflix, not_china, obselitism, ofmythandpaint, oldtimeradio, orthodoxy, paidmembers, pantry, pastjewels, pax_et_caritas, prettydresses, radicallearning, railfans, railroading, sacred_home, saintoftheday, sca, seattle, sf_muni, spreading_wings, steer_the_craft, steps_and_such, storybookland, strawberry4ever, team_swan, thequestionclub, things_for_kids, toon_memories, un_fashion, unassistedbirth, uneasylistening, urban_flowerpot, urban_nature, validate_me, victorianlife, vintage_fabric, vintageadverts, violinstudents, volcanology, walgreens, weasleysweaters, whatwasthatbook, wholesomeness, woodworking, wtf_nature |
| Account type: | Paid Account |
