Roger F Malina in reaction to Fred Turner and Robert Stern
5/26/2024
- We are all animals that lamina(te)
Watching animals young and old and
Eating very similar foods and words
Realizing that I am an anagram
Except for arg
An animal
Trying to figure
Itself
Outself
My fingernails are just kids.
My hips, hops, only ten years old
Why assign one number
To an animal who changes back and forth
Groping Gropius
Gropius published an article about “The Development of Industrial Buildings.”
Buildings age but we don’t remember their birth date only their birth place,
And death place.
It was the longest-serving of the three Bauhaus locations (1925–1932)
In defense of senexism
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Fn8Kru2kaGRZCGTKx/a-defense-of-senexism-deathism
A defense of Senexism (Deathism) by Gunnar_Zarncke
7 min read16th Feb 2014
- Driving down SouthWest Boulevard
Young
Semi naked laminas
Rather animals playing with spheres
Others herding down the hot cement
Of various ages and stupidity
Young animals
Quietening down at sunset
In the company of un-naked older ones
Over-clothed in their under-cloths
Avoiding sunburn is a skill
That comes with experience
Not age
Mine at Le Pouldu in Northern France
I became senex at the age of six.
- Platonism. Hedonism. Eroticism. Senexism
I am the same age as Plato
When he died
Approximately
Why does exact age matter
Enabling desirable effects does
And the people who co-influence you and them
Is a better metric, I am not a numerologist
In the ping pong of my life I would name
Joan Shigekawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Shigekawa
And Fred Whipple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Lawrence_Whipple
Whipple Shield
And now of course Fred and Robert, the pro-emergence group.
- APRIL 26 2024 redux 4am
Last night I woke up at 4am to write this poem.
Because the building alarms told me to
It turned out it was a broken senex pipe.
I left the building first of all the tenants, because
My wife and I and kids
Had survived the Oakland fire last century.
And as I fled I had learned to grasp my passport.
Intellectual eroticism and bodily hedonism
And Nastika
Are the more travelled and are ageless skills
Senexism here we come.
Such an intellectual idea….