Qu'il Creve...

The usual Gaga digest. Read on.

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The ongoing Apsara research report:

Some scholarly research in the mid-70s by an Indian scholar (Kar, Amina Ahmed. THE ANGKORIAN RECORDS. Narendrapur,2002 2nd Ed) reveals that there is an Iranian element to the site of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. This is news since most accounts of Angkor note the Hindu/Buddhist lineage from India, and the trade with Fu'nan, a southern part of China. But stele inscriptions reveal a worship of the sun (Mithra), the Apsaras being divine dancers in kind to celestial Persian dancers , and rites and rituals that were similar to Persian offerings.

This should not come as any surprise. The usual Euro-Asian silk and spice trade routes would have passed through Persia, India and China, and Southeast Asia. We know the Indo-Aryans are the generally accepted as the founders of modern languages and the birth of civilization, so we have yet more of a mixed bag of influences displayed in the Khmer Empire of Angkor.

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Some repartees with my Japanese-American friend on the topic of Apsaras:

Gaga:

The apex of a well-fed, well-organized society: the pursuit of pleasure and the production of pleasure-inducing things, such as the arts.

Angkor was a paradise for Chinese seamen who found the easy life-style with friendly women so tempting as to jump ship for a permanent life in Angkor.

-Zhou Duguan

The Yo Factor:

We, too, have jumped ship into friendly Khmer-dom . . . (now the "friendly" does that not explain the Asps? most lovely of the friendly.)

Slaves build temples . . . way down south in pixieland, they don't pick cotton, but use dem rocks to put up Disneyland.

The Hindu-Buddhist ethic of limitation, physical boundary, the particular as the fractal of the cosmic process . . . rather than the Western concept of the material infinite, borderlessness, the universal.

Within a certain realm . . . Shambala, the mantra . . . within a finite system, kundalini, the tantra . . .within the Aspara, the dance of creation/destruction, consciousness/subconscious . . . . the source of pleasure.

Pleasure requires aesthetic distance, the consciousness of the physical taking it to the psycho-spiritual, synapses electrifying with the nerve endings. The West is deadened by the famous mind-body dualism . . . Can a Cartesian be an artisan? Never, he thinks too much and feels too little.

So the Asps are teachers, transmitters of unspoken teachings, dance brings our synapses into harmonics with our tingling nerves. This is Tantra.

Modernity . . . the myth created by Cartesians in their loneliness. Khmer civilization reached the destiny of a culture and civilization. The rice culture actually changed the biochem composition of humans, making the stench of carnivores completely disgusting, like the bodies washed up on the shores of Phuket. The moderns are unwashed barbarians, smelling of puke, piss and puss. The Khmer bodies smelled beautifully.

The leading cause of stench in Thailand and other rice cultures today: the pig. Pigs are the mixing bag of diseases, much like humans.

Human flesh and pig meat are pink, delectable because of their omnivore content, and corrupted by parasites, virals and complex bacterials.

Eliminate the pig and everything improves . . . water quality, methane levels in the atmosphere, human health . . . only one thing deteriorates . . . human rationality . . . the consumption of pork increases brain size and activity, according to Japanese scientists, who say there is no more perfect protein (besides human). Intelligence is putrid and cannibalistic . . . The pig prevents the renaissance of Khmer-type culture . . . because it destroys the ethereal. The
consumption of pork by women, of course, is inflationary.

Humans are pigs today. In Khmer glory daze, the women ate rice and fish and vegetables . . . the water was clean, the air pure.

Gaga:

There is not one pig in Saudi Arabia. Hmmmm...talk about stinky. Then again, camel and goats are objects for desire...in a few ways.

Yo Factor:

OK, alright, the Stoics clobbered the other source of stench . . . beans. They fled from the flatulations. The Peninsula is pork-free but packed with lentils.
Christian monks were also leguminous. This is the Saudi-Israeli menace . . . falafel. This is the deep flaw in vegetarianism.

Gaga (from the Dhammapada 126):

Some are born in the human womb,
evil-doers in hell,
those on the good course go
to heaven,
while those without effluent:
totally unbound.

Let's see...

effluence/affluence/flatulence

or perhaps reverse order:

flatulence/affluence/effluence

or maybe

affluence/flatulence/effluence

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Since Janet Jackson showed her tit at the Superbowl last year, the United States has imposed Draconian measures to ensure media networks censor themselves. Hmm. It's not ok to show a tit, which is the organ of life-giving nourishment for the future generation...but its OK to wage war.

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I don't get it. I don't get it at all.

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I found myself waxing poetically about literature the other day in my ESL class. I encouraged my students to read closely to the turn of phrases, the mental images the words create, the subtle mood and feeling words convey.

I felt good...but then fear overtook it. You see, I am not allowed to talk about words in this way.

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"We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness"
-George Orwell, 1984

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Qu'il Creve (don't know what it means? ...look it up)

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I took my pleasure in having an Apsara at a Japanese massage joint massage me with a special lotion...and her tongue, in every nook and cranny on my corpus.

There is hope... in pleasure.