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Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Wed December 20, 2023 11:36 pm
by Ello Sailor
Argo why are you delaying your review of The Iron Claw?!

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Wed December 20, 2023 11:42 pm
by doug rr
Jorge wrote:
doug rr wrote:happy birthday argo...what would you like to do in your 36th year?
It's his 37th year. He just ended his 36th.
my mistake..lets all have a drink for his birthday...these people died while they were 36:
princess Diana
bob Marley
Marilyn Monroe
lord Byron
Steve mcnair
Toulouse-Lautrec
sage stallone
Cyrano de Bergerac
doc Holliday

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 2:46 am
by The Argonaut
Thank you for the well wishes, doug. I hope not to die this year

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 3:57 am
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 3:59 am
by The Argonaut
Sorry, trag, you're too late. I am no longer thanking each individual birthday well-wisher by name. Get in earlier next year

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 4:13 am
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 3:26 pm
by dad
hope you had a great day, Argo.

Happy Birthday!

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 3:38 pm
by The Argonaut
Thanks, dad! It's very kind of you

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 3:39 pm
by doug rr
happy birthday argo

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 3:40 pm
by The Argonaut
Double thanks, doug. Or should I say 'dougle thanks'. :haha:

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 3:44 pm
by doug rr
I take back my birthday wishes

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 3:45 pm
by tree_
did you git inny presence

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 3:51 pm
by The Argonaut
Yes, my friend and my brother and my parents called me on the phone

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 3:54 pm
by tree_
at the same time? like an organized deal? what did you talk about?

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 3:59 pm
by The Argonaut
Three separate calls. But you came up in all of the calls, actually

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 4:14 pm
by doug rr
did lenny call or text you?

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 4:57 pm
by VinylGuy
cant wait to see how Argo gets older.
Im sure he will enter into George Clooney territory.

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Thu December 21, 2023 10:02 pm
by The Argonaut
doug rr wrote:did lenny call or text you?
nah
VinylGuy wrote:cant wait to see how Argo gets older.
Im sure he will enter into George Clooney territory.
nah

Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Fri December 22, 2023 1:05 am
by spike
happy birthday

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Re: Argonautical Birthing Day

Posted: Fri December 22, 2023 1:13 am
by The Argonaut
thanks, spike, you little dog you