Aero.

There are few sights so serene as a swan sailing majestically along the Grand Union
Canal.

Except, that is, when it is being chased by a gang of hungry,
knife-wielding Eastern Europeans.

Will the Mail never learn? And will the foreigners never learn? One of those things can break your arm with a single wing.

Bubbly chocolate bar.

Aerogel. Aeromar. Saw corpses hanging from meat hooks in a UFO. Human ones, that is. In COSCON by Branton.

Aerogel. Insulates. Alum-effected concrete. Good insulator. All those Roman buildings, all concrete, all survive. Not many of the tower blocks of the 70s do. It's a common news story, Soviet tower block falls down. The KGB needn't have bothered, then they wouldn't have had to kill Litvinenko. If that was why they did it. We knock ours down here. Flat roofs. Modernist architecture. Lets the water in. Unless the concrete is waterproof, which the Roman stuff was but ours isn't. Supermen. Freaks. Like in the X-Men, but realisticer. Why else would they kill Litvinenko? Something to do with drugs? Murray says drugs. I read his book.

Did I mention that I've been to Temple Bruer?

I know where the idol of the Templars was kept, of course. Heard it from someone. Saw the dungeon in which it was kept. I mention that on my website, I think. I don't mention how I heard of it, of course.

I see agent provocateurs are still on the go. Not the shop. Like Gloria Steinem.

Anyway, it's back to A4E (or A3, if your prefer) tomorrow. Until them there's this and this, which I've been meaning to get around to reading for a long time.

FF: I like to think in terms of the non-corruptible. What can't be corrupted? Now, Herbert Marcuse said in a speech once, he said, well, you can even commodify the forces of love. This was in 1969, 1970. We all said, "No, impossible!" 'Cause we never dreamed that Jimi Hendrix would be doing a Ford commercial. You know, we didn't believe that was possible. To quote Jesus, or at least to quote somebody who was apparently quoting Jesus, “See, and then you'll see. Hear, and then you'll hear.”

Wit: Yes, back to Paul. I think.

FF: Paul, yeah. Corinthians 13.

Wit: Which is a spectacular piece of writing.

FF: Yes, but getting people to read the Bible. To see or hear. You encounter this kind of resistance. It's just like pushing away the 9/11 Truth tape. You know? You can agree or disagree, but they don't even want to look. It's what Erich Fromm called Escape From Freedom.

Wit: Yes, that or creeping chicken shit-ism.

JB: Terminal Mama’s Boy-ism.

Wit: Yes, people that resist every form of 9/11 Truth seem so juvenile to me. Silly. But they’re all kind of nuts because they secretly—unconsciously—know Dad Did It.

FF: In this neighborhood, here in the East Village, the shutting down churches, removing services and shelter for the poor. In order to make condos. It epitomizes evil.

Wit: Especially the condos with wall to wall carpeting.

FF: A friend of mine once pointed out to me--who does Jesus curse out most in the Bible? Rich people. "It's easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into heaven." He went to the temple and threw out the money changers. First thing, he comes into town on the donkey, comes into the big city as a country guy. He's already wanted by the authorties, 'cause he's making speeches out in the hills. This guy is dangerous! Because he’s different than everyone who has come before. He's not saying the kingdom is coming. He said, I am the kingdom, it's here. And the first thing he does—boom!—they do a direct action. Straight to the temple! Throws the money changers out, and by accounts I’ve read—holds the place for days. This most assuredly earns him his happy designation as an insurrectionist.

Wit: Yes, that's what G.K. Chesterton says in Orthodoxy. In Jesus’s life there’s an example for every rebel—"a boast for all insurgents everywhere.”