Six Bells

Once upon a time,

It might've been your lucky day if you ended up
on a sinking ship lost at sea.

 At the moment when you drew straws,

you pulled the short shift,

more colloquially known as
"The Dog Watch"

To beat 'the seven bells' out of someone
is one blow shy of death ...

Clocked.

This song is an hour short.

Lost at sea, half an hour left to list---
there's no, there's no. It's so dark ...
there's no way


Infested with the night.
***

Is it a call for mutiny?

[George Jenks wrote a serial in the first pulp mag The Argosy,
vol 68 no 1, Dec 1911. Help me -- I can't find it.]

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An Accumulation of Time

Part I

If I was a real bloggy person, 

I would write a witty, coherent (albeit wandering) 

essay with correct grammar, 

including proper usage of the subjunctive mood.  

I am not that.

***

I've just finished watching this:

This is a piece near the end 

of a nicely made documentary that originally aired 

on BBC Four. It's a 5 episode series, and on the YouTube, 

each episode is divided into 6 ten minute segments (roughly).

It's less biased than most videos 

I've seen about Tibet, and 

it's a good introduction for someone 

who knows a little about the current situation.

I encourage you to watch the entire series chronologically---

if you're into that sort of thing.  I think it's worth the effort.

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As one who was always previously 

spiritually bent and entirely against government,

it was eye opening for me, after having had

a small taste of the Tibetan Buddhism in practice.

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So I was watching these monks 

doing inventory because they forgot what they had,

dragging out sacred texts from their libraries ...

"dusted off" once every ten years- - -

(or were they hiding them?)

...and it reminded me a lot 

of this fantasy movie I saw recently :

CITY OF EMBER