Glo/Punch and Judy

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Worlds within worlds.

Thanks, Glo.

Love,

Dan

 

 

At 04:43 PM 2/17/00 -0500, you wrote:

>"Gloria Lee" <glee

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>Hi, including the intro to this poem, from the book where I found it.

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>Consider the spider spinning the geometrically perfect web. As far as we

know,

>the spider has no conscious knowledge of the wondrous feat he performs. The

>eminent psychiatrist Carl Jung postulated that a mass collective unconscious

>unites all human beings. Perhaps humankind, like the spider, is unknowingly

>creating geometrically perfect webs with our subconscious mind. Or perhaps we

>are more the "creations" of our collective consciousness than our individual

>conscious minds? This wonderful poem by Theodore

>Melnechuk sets forth the idea of humankind being manipulated by forces

>totally foreign to it's conscious mind. The poem is about puppets

>speaking to their puppet masters and the audience, telling them that although

>they might consider themselves far superior to mere puppets, "transcendental

>gods", they too are puppets and manipulated by "some higher god's inserted

arm".

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>PUNCH AND JUDY TO THEIR AUDIENCE

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>Our puppets strings are hard to see,

>So we perceive ourselves as free,

>Convinced that no mere objects could

>Behave in terms of bad and good.

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>To you, we mannequins seem less

>than live, because our consciousness

>is that of dummies, made to sit

>on laps of gods and mouth their wit;

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>Are you, our transcendental gods,

>likewise dangled from your rods,

>and need, to show spontaneous charm,

>some higher god’s inserted arm?

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>We seem to form a nested set,

>With each the next one’s marionette,

>Who, if you asked him, would insist,

>that he’s the last ventriloquist.

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>by Theodore Melnechuk

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