Page 22 RAIN Dec 1975 TOUC and GO, Imagine that all human bodies which exist looked alike, that, on the other hand, different sets of characteristics seemed, as it were, to change their habitation among bodies.. . . Assassination conspiracy resources list. Free with stamped reply envelope from Donnelly, •Box 1131, Winters, CA 95694...,. There's been a winding through people I know of a chain letter or two. What gives; where did the mailing lists come from? . . . . Jack Nicholson was living in a rented house-in Salem, Oregon, getting. up-before dawn every morn.ing and plodding off to the hospital where "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was being filmed. Tim Cahil, in a Rolling Stone article, describes Salem: "Winter in Salem, Oregon, can add several hundred pounds of bad psychic baggage to the soul of a Southern Californian like Jack Nicholson. There is a constant chill fog and the sun., at high noon, could possibly be that faint glimmer behind the brightest cloud bank. It is like living inside an Edgar Allen Poe poem, minus 20 degree centigrade. .. . , Have I yet suggested that the effect of a winter's day in Salem can best be experienced by wrappipg oneself in 30 pounds of wet blankets and standing - inside a meat locker for 24 hours?". . .. Given a blink that lasts 300 milliseconds every 3 seconds, there are about 20,000 bliriks a day, with about 1-3/4 hours spent in eyeblihks in the average waking day ; similarly, about 1-3/4 hours a night are spent in d~eaming. . . . Archimedes' last words (to a soldier): "Stand away, fellow, from my diagram." . .. There is probably a connection be- • tween a rose and a bippopotamus, and yet no young man would ever think of offering his fiancee a bouquet of hippopotam( .. . ABC-TV has late night special caption news for the deaf, whicp for those who see and hear both can be an odd sensation; watching tne elaborate complete sentences get reduced tb the facts only.... A man sent out to investigate ESP experiences in the West In- , dies, particularly rumors of women who spoke to trees in order to relay messages to husbands at work to get them,ifor 'example, to get them to bring something home asked: "Why do you address yourself to a tree?" They answered, "Because I am poor. If I were rich I should have the telephone." ... During •1974 visitors to Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum were asked what person they most hated and feared. The results were: Richard M. Nixon, Adolf Hitler, Jack the Ripper, Moshe Dayan and Abdul Salan Muammar El.-Qaddef. (On Aug. 9, according to UPI, Nixon's wax figure was placed in storage.) . .. Think about your deepest secret, now scream away from it like a hummingbird courting, • now look at your secret so that it looks like a light deep in a canyon; drop towards .it, pretend it's a pool and you've just been _dreaming all this, and the fall is only five feet into the green quiet waters and someone is applauding you from the .shoreline as you surface.... Adolf Hitler's birthday is still celebrated in the hamlet of Waringlid in England. On the morning of the birthday every year, some of the participants drive to Stonehenge, where they swear their continuing allegiance to the principles of national socialism.... If one auditory nerve were misconnected with an optic nerve, when you heard music you would see vision. .. . "It depends on \\'.ho you're talking to. If you're talking to the head of the KGB and you happen to be overheard, and you're Jane Fonda, or somebody else, there's no reason you wouldn't be overheard if somebody 1 has the capability t<;> overhear youwhich I don't know if they do or not" -Vice President1Nelson Rockefeller, commenting on electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency. . . . 1 Electro-biology is found in Roget's Thesaurus (1946 edition) listed under acts of religion, in•the sub-section, "sorcery." ... Last words of Henry David Thoreau, "Moose, Indian." . .. While Bruce Springsteen made the cover ·of both Newsweek and Time, Governor Brown of California ·made it al- , most simultaneously into both Co-Evo- . lution Quarterly and New Age Journal. i The Governor's coffee table We sat round a low clear-glass table. Visible under it was a heap of we/I-read books. World Energy Strategies Amory B. Lo~ins •The Perfectiou or Wisdom in 8000 Lines & Its Verse Summary Edward Conze Multinationa!. Oil Neil J-1. Jacoby • The Updated Last Wholi, Earth Catalog Po-,erty & Mental Retardation Rodger Harley Ecology Law Quarterly Sweet & Danger~us Jc-'1n Yud,-. i" Human Ecology J-:lirlich, Ehrlich, Holdren Briarpatch Review Michael Phillips, ed. Man & People Ortega y Gassel Turtl_e Island Gary Snyder Deschooling Society Juan Illich The CoF.volution Quarterly St. Benedict's Rule for Monasteries Leonard J. Doyle, Irons. . Out of My Thought & Life Albert Schweitzer Changing State Budgeting S. Kenneth Howard Building the Earth Tei/hard de Chardin A Timr to Choose' - America·s Energy Future Ford f~Oundation • The Servant as Leader Robert K. Greenleaf Schopenhauer Selections Dewitt H. Parher, ed. Public Work, Public Workers Ralph J. Flvnn Rome M. Rosloutzef{ ' • After Deschooling, What? Wittgenstein - The Philosophical Investigations George Pitcher, ed. The Fourth Way P. n. Ou,pens/,'y Currant Lesley Wenl(er, ed. - Sun Moon and Stars Coyote .Man Environment. Power, and Society Howard T. Odum Daedalus (The No-Growth So'l!iety) A More Goodly Country John Sanford Energy Primer Portola Institute The Mediterranean Fernand Braudel ' I GoverQor :Qrown's coffee table., from CoEvolution Quarterly.
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