and the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life (we went soft, we lost our edge)

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There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe.  It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures.  You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves.  We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort.  Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection.  It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity.  In such perfection, all things move toward death.

p a r  a d i s e   on  my right    †     hell  on   my   left         and,      †      theangelof  d  e a t h behind

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