William Blake, surrender, the word, newspapers, fiction, Tom Wolfe, and new religions

***

If you can't take it with you, one wonders why elderly people spend time learning things. William Blake states: "Think in the morning, act in the afternoon, eat in the evening, sleep in the night."

To want without surrender. To have your cake and eat it to. A thief wants something for nothing. This is speculation.

Where the thought is entertaining, the word is embarrassing.

The word came first: out of the ignorance of animality, those that heard the word that corresponded to images were demystified and understood.

The editor of newspapers surrounds his advertisements with meaningless filler called articles.

Fiction is an appeal from value judgments.

Tom Wolfe, from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test: "None of the great founded religions began with a philosophical framework or even a main idea. They all began with an overwhelming new experience", by the founder "...who binds disciples together by new experience whose nature the founder has revealed and interpreted" (Joachim Wach)

***

To find out about books by Jack Haas, click on the image:

These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.