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I went down not long ago to the Mad River, under the willows I knelt and drank from that crumpled flow, call it what madness you will, there's a sickness worse than the risk of death and that's forgetting what we should never forget. Tecumseh lived here. The wounds of the past are ignored, but hang on like the litter that snags among the yellow branches, newspapers and plastic bags, after the rains. Where are the Shawnee now? Do you know? Or would you have to write to Washington, and even then, whatever they said, would you believe it? Sometimes I would like to paint my body red and go into the glittering snow to die. His name meant Shooting Star. From Mad River country north to the border he gathered the tribes and armed them one more time. He vowed to keep Ohio and it took him over twenty years to fail. After the bloody and final fighting, at Thames, it was over, except his body could not be found, and you can do whatever you want with that, say his people came in the black leaves of the night and hauled him to a secret grave, or that he turned into a little boy again, and leaped into a birch canoe and went rowing home down the rivers. Anyway this much I'm sure of: if we meet him, we'll know it, he will still be so angry.


Mary Oliver


#poetry #tecumseh #death

I once visited a village of primitive people. At village, I felt time and life moved slower.


Toba Beta


#mind #move #primitive #slow #life

Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beings as men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races.


Toba Beta


#angel #primitive-men #wilier-races #men

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.


J. J. Abrams


#animal #beginning #behavior #cross #human

Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!


Peter Asher


#different #even #made #primitive #really

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.


Michael Behe


#car #culture #designed #engine #guess

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.


Tony Bennett


#billie #billie holiday #business #compared #followed

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.


Isadora Duncan


#anyone #believe #expresses #jazz #me

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.


Robert Bork


#believe #classes #highly #influential #intellectual

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?


Dan Barker


#primitive-men #religion #superstition #food






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