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When you have your life figured, now, when the body begins to fade, now is the time of your second casting out. Here you are sent from your re-constructed Eden into more difficult work.

:- Doug.

Conversation, you see, is a selfless thing—nor altruistic.

:- Doug.

Immerse in the ritual.

:- Doug.

We are drinking hot chocolate with one another
We are drinking of one another

:- Doug.

Ritual is participation with mythological life. So yes, I work at my joining in with that life.

:- Doug.

In order to become more human you must submit yourself to another casting out: a separation from your past notions of yourself; an accepting of the necessity of sweat of the brow; and more. Becoming more human is probably a repeating process of separation, sweat of the brow. . . .

:- Doug.

Now will you be hurled
from out your hiding place

:- Doug.

Out from Eden we were cast as out from childhood into sweat of brows. It is a story of adolescence, of meeting manhood, womanhood. The way back is barred. You must now, in age if not earlier, go through a second casting out. Here you enter your flowering.

:- Doug.

We are leaving homemade Eden.

:- Doug.

Neither convincing
Nor entertaining be
Rather inviting
Wouldn’t you like here
To live?

:- Doug.

I have come
to hurl you out
from your little world

:- Doug.

I look in my mirrors and I think there’s nothing back there. And then I wonder—How do I know? Even if I look?

:- Doug.

If this had a hint of truth to it, what question would you have for your times?

:- Doug.

I have come to eject you from the microcosm in which you only supposed you lived.

:- Doug.

Mine ears have been turned
to the song of the universe
hear the living impossible

:- Doug.

What grows where you live? What animals come around?

:- Doug.

What’s your way to encourage your friend to open up?

:- Doug.

What is your toughest subject on which to start a conversation?

:- Doug.

What was a good conversation you have had recently?

:- Doug.

But does it apply to you?

:- Doug.

We think we are here
But the end, as life, is open

:- Doug.

What major mistakes have you made?

:- Doug.

In conversation we find ourselves somewhen else—totally present here and now but also together, larger, and in an intersection with an eternity, a when out of time—now we are in the condition where gods and heroines and titans find themselves.

:- Doug.