
It’s Fromm, chookie, or Friedman era effed Read Only Memory.
1. “We shall suffer damage from water and from fire We cannot change this state of affairs What we can do is adopt a resolute character as befits a good person in order to endure the changes of life with bravery and be in agreement with nature”
– Seneca (Letter 107)
2. AI PRDCD JUNK LIT ⤵️
Key Themes and Meaning
- Inevitability of Adversity: Seneca argues that disasters (floods, fire, losses) are guaranteed to happen and are part of the natural order of the world.
- The Stoic Response: Instead of wasting energy complaining or fearing these events, one should focus on strengthening their character (virtue) to endure them bravely.
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- Nature’s Regulation Another translation of this sentiment from Seneca’s work suggests that “floods will rob us of one thing, fire of another” and that these reversals are “the means by which nature regulates this visible realm of hers” A similar concept is found in On Providence (5.10) where Seneca notes “Fire tries gold misfortune tries brave men” emphasizing that hardship is a test of character rather than just a misfortune
4. “Seneca, quite unmoved, asked for tablets on which 2 inscribe his will, and, on the centurion’s refusal, turned 2 his friends, protesting that as he was forbidden 2 requite them, he bequeathed 2 them the only, but still the noblest possession yet remaining 2 him, the pattern of his life [imago vitae suae], which, if they remembered, they would win a name for moral worth and steadfast friendship. At the same time he called them back from their tears to manly resolution, now with friendly talk, and now with the sterner language of rebuke. [‘Where,’ he asked again and again, ‘are your maxims of philosophy, or the preparation of so many years’ study against evils 2 come?] Who knew not Nero’s cruelty? After a mother’s and a brother’s murder, nothing remains but 2 add the destruction of a guardian and a tutor.’ ”
5. The Junk-lit on Schubert’s Frühlingstraum (from Winterreise) In this context it refers to a “Dream of Spring” or a dream of the past experienced within a cold winter landscape The lyrics explicitly describe dreaming of flowers and meadows while in a harsh cold reality
6. American-styled litter-chewer for the predilection amusement and blessedly the mental ‘meltdown’ or compleat lapse into gibberisch, Musklish & Gruntlish of the morally hamstrung subsidiaritarian raison d’etat (no, not the post Bismarck (1870 Europe) Machiavellian readout ‘national-interest’) but Edward Bernays, the “father of public relations,” dead on March 9, 1995, at age 103 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, You-Essay/ I-am-you hell-on-earth Piagetian Arrested Development mental Eleven year-olds.
7. Grungy grinchy growly yet groovy Reported-speech a propos of every person in die welt never nothing → → Nachdenken über diese Winterträume
Nacht und Träume
German source: Matthäus Casimir von Collin
Heil’ge Nacht, du sinkest nieder;
Nieder wallen auch die Träume,
Wie dein Mondlicht durch die Räume,
Durch der Menschen stille Brust.
Die belauschen sie mit Lust;
Rufen, wenn der Tag erwacht:
Kehre wieder, heil’ge Nacht!
Holde Träume, kehret wieder!^
A presentation from magnanimously busted organic fruitgrower retailer exporter food mnfctrr and ex local, state and national government advisor/ enquiry secretary “Blundell !” bane of gangsters and their muppets Australia and abroad.
At this Sunday morning moment 32 years 10 months and 5 1/2 weeks out from electorally embarrassing the crooks and clowns of mainstream politics, his advice to Peter Yu of the Kimberley Land Council of 1996 if there’s a Man’s-dream (?) hop into it..

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ⱽNight and Dreams
English translation © Richard Wigmore
Holy night, you sink down;
dreams, too, float down,
like your moonlight through space,
through the silent hearts of men.
They listen with delight,
crying out when day awakes:
come back, holy night!
Fair dreams, return!