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Mirror in Art and John Lennon A propagandum [This work is still in the process of being drafted. Please feel free to provide constructive comments for the author and speak freely to and for anyone else.]

Merry Christmas!

Until the nineteenth century, Art, in Shakespeares phrase, held "a mirror up to nature" and faithfully recorded an objectively real world independent of the observer. - Vince Brewton, University of Northern Alabama

I am tryin to say it to Yoko, but to all women, you know? On behalf of all men, in a way. If thats taken it too much on meself, I feel that artists are that theyre reflections of society... Mirrors. - John Lennon

The following propagandum reflects on the release of the artist as the revealer of nature by mirroring, to artist as mirror and then reformulates the artists identity including mirroring, being mirrored and living beyond and including mirroring and mirrors in a radically new and sublime way to those artists still on the road to Heaviside Layer. The artists release follows a natural progression that begins in a narcissism (particularly derivative to the initial realization of the narcissistic wound) to a bagism, to a loverism (anti-terrorism), to a Jellicle Peptomism.

The quaternary that begins with a narcissism and culminates to a Jellicle Peptomism suffers a partial regression along its way. A Bagist has to his advantage something lost in loverism, a message or statement, which is lost in loverism (unless love itself is a message) and returns in a Jellicle Peptomism as an expression of the highest truth of the practitioner.

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Manipulations of determinisms, when addressed by an adult as behavioural and chemical influence on phenotype and genotype, respectively, can only expect results based on a reality testing stayed to through the upheavals of a path to Peptomism. Jellicle Peptomism derives its name from a play on T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" and riffs on the brand name Pepto Bismal in hopes the practitioner might only suffer pain so great that it can be remedied over the counter from a more open pharmacy and coming from a place of mixed knowledge and ignorance about human physiology and about medicine on the part of a "patient." While Jellicle Peptomism looks forward to a bright future and assumes an advance in medicine it does not seek to replace a trusted physician but rather casts such a person in a sometimes supporting role in the maintenance of health and amelioration of disease should it occur. The "Bismal" principle applies better to art and craft better than to chemical or behavioural remedy. Musics native to things Jellicle come from a realm beyond body and mind and stand to improve most by a Peptomist attitude resident in them. The "Bismal" analogy as an imperative put: a person ought to administer over those tasks only he or she can complete for him or herself, for others and the World, for God, and which ought to be done as such because to delegate them would miss a serious point about health or art as the case may be. A serious point: you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friend's nose. Without the care and knowledge of the Doctor and patient (more and more the same in a craft as practiced and conceived) no project stands to grow as the nurture and control necessary to guide it are ill-founded in anything but the highest calibers of human knowledge, largely theoretical, and the most skillful human practice are unique to the life-well lived. The quarternity is the unfolding of life, doctor or no doctor and it is a non-genetic determinism (with all of the opennesses determinists allow) that

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precedes genetic determinisms in its essence and power to explain. Why Celine is so buoyant or why Frank is so smooth is a result of care and autonomy employed beyond conscious manipulations to a genotype which might later express as a phenotype or an expression that might later "encode" as a genotype. DNA does not stop "evolving" at birth. What role does the conscious reprogramming of genes have in a Jellicle Peptomism? The degree to which growth becomes conscious is largely a choice faced by everyone on "the spiritual path," the road less travelled by that we might arrive where we started and know the place for the first time, to cross Eliot with Frost. Expanded free will derives from a wisdom about playing with genetic determinisms, with all the acceptances, rejections and changes that come naturally, require premeditation or transpire spontaneously with a basis in logic, itself a synthetic system, and nature and transcend it as Zen. Another definition of Zen: where ear the adept finds him or herself in the quarternity and what she or he is doing in such a position. The quarternity is Zen in four stages. Free will increases in power and scope with the wise territory cleaning and mapping of a Peptomism in development. Peptomism is always in development and returns to past stages, as reminiscences and reflections, like cloudy afternoons following a dark night of the soul, in its inter-growth and beatifications. Free will diminishes with folly for self-presenting reasons most often tantamount to a consequence of its misuse (i.e. The boy who cried wolf) and is resurrected by surrender. If we think of the mind in terms similar to the body, with part of its code written in the stars, we might arrive at similar conclusions carrying this thought forward to practice.

Quarternities in procession lend themselves to explanation by the Axiom of Maria, discovered by a father of psychodynamics, Carl Jung. The first object, A progresses into B after which C emerges after which B and C transcend to D, reviving something of A lost

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to B and C and including elements of each of B and C, excluding yet other elements of B and C transmogrifying the sum of their remaining parts magically producing a map of the development of an idea. Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof's model of the perinatal birth matrix lends itself to understanding by the Axiom of Maria as does a dynamically-inspired reading of the Biblical Gospels, psychosexual stages of development, Carl Sagan's model of an evolving brain and the suits on a deck of cards.

[Map the quarternity at hand to the axiom of Maria]

In seeking to add to a tradition that functions by its own steam and by nature's steam we detract more than we add. By the same engine that propels the Earth around the sun or the tree to rise from the grown and grow new leaves each season do the seasons of man come to pass in good order, determined and with openness and open with determinants. Quarternity, where nature's steam and synthetic engines propel not only an idea but a spirituality as lived, with a thing or person as an object of appropriate and life-affirming love serves not only the one who needs to love or who needs to be loved but also nature and also the development of syntheses.

The Bagists biologically imperative end precipitates a move from artist utilizing mirrors as tools at perception and reproduction Take, for example, the scene in Tommy where Mrs. Walker demands Tommy go to the mirror and Mrs. Walker, arriving at wits end after Tommys failure to comply with her manipulation, smashes it and with it the germ of Tommys narcissism such that his Self might reform without including its image, physical and mental, reflected back at him inopportunely. After Tommys release from a bondage of pinball and failed attempts at therapy, the artist (or Pinball Wizard) returns to the opinion of others to answer the question how do I look? or more importantly, how

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does the work look? and approaches asking, how am I doing? The mysticism of a bag full of ideologies and activisms that come with romance and brotherly love transmogrify into ineffable experiences for the Peptomist, a man or woman returned to his deepest and truest nature. The bag becomes a repository of lost treasures available on Christmas or whenever else peace on Earth, goodwill toward men begs its usage.

How would a native to intersecting worlds of art explain a move from a conception of art (and worse, the artist) as merely a mirror of man and his world (his routines, goals and his nature) to a conception of art (and the artist) as an evolutionary process which draws on mirrors not only for artist but also for critic, spectator and financier in such a way as to permit the artist to generate novelty beyond reflection and mere imitation while keeping the power of gnosis well-protected and wisely deploying it to reach yet others with truth.Bold but subtle; meaningful but not manipulative, such art would be - such it is. In some cases, art reflects back timeliness and timelessness both as the artist experiences it in the world and as the artist's audience follows suit . As works are fully engaged, delivered for the common good and gauged to edify by means of an audience's receptive ears and eyes, it's mind and soul. The artist is not just a mirror or a manipulator of them, ever. In art, espionage and everyday life, mirrors are mirrors and artists are people.

Artists have imaginations and interests that extend better and better beyond their noses as they progress from a narcissism to a Jellicle Peptomism, another ism that might get lust to plurality but on pains of losing how it uniquely finds something to like about even the narcissist if for no other reason than to transmute him or her upwardly toward self-realization and expression. Complete people make better artists.

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God sent artists to the world to check up on humans and report back to them.

Fans and critics, unwitting shoppers and devotees continue to use art as mirrors in an age where the lines between real and surreal are blurred in some of the best work out there. Are you more like Han Solo or Darth Sidious? Are they even all together that different? Maybe not, save for but one decision about how to conduct oneself in the world and particularly as it pertains to responsibility to others. Patrons persist in obsolete modes of criticism even when art doesn't lend itself to such a kind of reflection. The play was great but the climax dragged on too long. I thought you liked it that way.. Defining art as a servile reflection of Self, Other, World and God, however lifted to the higher realms of pageantry and pedantics, they have broader power to explain. A view on art disrespectful to the autonomy of the artists misses the point of art and cannot pass the test of higher reason as it pertains to progress in art. Progress, however controversial and difficult to define, lends itself to being measured by the artists emancipation of himself and his victims (read patronage): just because an artist can act as a mirror or make works in accord with imitation and principles which guide it, to another or to a society, does not mean that he or she must. A Jackson Pollock can capture a room and augment its eerie timbre in a way a realist might not consider. Art is creative and while it may play on Universal themes it offers a way out as much as a way in. It depends on the work and how the beholder processes it within a leeway of how the work lends itself to analysis which can be pursued or not, and in some cases one and not the other case preferred for the better appreciation of art and in consideration of the role one is playing in relation to it. In cases where analysis does not depend on introspection or projection art has moved beyond imitation with the caveat that it must be comprehensible in terms of a common world and in increasing degrees as the work

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becomes more universal. Just because someone sees themselves in a work or projects psychic matter onto a work does not imply this, or the work itself for that matter, ought to have been done. Art has the power to express nascent phenomena in the world to the world and the archetype of the shaman is often subsumed by the artist. (Some of the best artists don't think of themselves as that, but as friends, lovers, parents, bingo players, skydivers, counter-semolina pilchard-ing etc.) While art imitates, it need not be imitation. Such is the difference between an abject mannerism, in theatre arts, and an approach in accord with Stanislavki's system. One annoyingly imitates while the other, in the absence of inspiration or the common sense of a carpenter, has the power to explain, prescribe and define. The difference between making funny faces and getting to know yourself as you can be applied to a role is the difference between heaven and hell. To reiterate, because art imitates doesn't mean it is imitation or somehow counterfeit. It is an object unto itself in consideration of it and it is part of a dynamic system, or even, a world. You can't fool a woman with an imitation string of pearls when she knows how to see the persistence of memory in only the authentic object as a lustre, or maybe a vibration. Real pearls have more harmonious vibrations, they have lustre. Only the authentic object has the power to edify. Imitation beyond a mistaken forgery in a work ought to express the subjects of a work, mindful of form or the particular object being imitated or transmuted to the canvas, record, flower arrangement, etc.. Having refused to consider the possibility that a perfect verisimilitude could exist and given a preference against pipe-dreams with the way the light reflects on oil paint. Authentic works also tend to be authoritative in delivering perspectives over ranges of ideas. The difference between Hamlet and pantomime exemplifies the range of reality and unreality, with imitations in service to them, the theatre might express as much as the writing allows. The depths of

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Hamlet have lead some to drown while Pantomime only invites the occasional nap.

The bagism continuum begins and ends in love. The bagism continuum is a process involving two caterpillar people getting into a bag and coming out as one butterfly. Next, lovers pass through infatuation, a loverism comes to include more outside objects, objects freer from the cathexis between lovers, but reluctantly, and eventually, as the story goes, lovers come to a Jellicle Peptomism. Loverism includes as part of its unwritten doctrine, a catholic love of self and intimate other (work, family and friends start to matter again after the conspiracy of everything else ruined a return to Eden) whereas a bagism entails spending a month with a beloved one in a hotel room, a step within the bag beyond the bag at inception of an instance of bagism because of its connection to the real world, however tenuous, strengthens before God cuts it like the umbilical cord it is. Hotels have lobbies and lobbies have lounges. Bagism does not only begin in describing how personal evolutions work out in the world (it revives the seventies and with it possibility and not the wars between neighbours fought about mileage, ministry and memes) and in a way the triune presented here is beyond nature and in that way, each of bagism, loverism and Jellicle Peptomism are at a glorious stalemate of a wild nature. Universal elements of art illustrate more primal, primordial and thus, in many cases, more primary objects (a guilt by association) in those cases where such a primacy sought erroneously in films which do not honour the very elements that bring film to life, and life to film.

Its been a hard days night and Ive been working like a dog.

Art rock, shamanism and Tantra demand a treatment inclusive of past beyond their less refined substrates. Peptomist ideology stems from eternal truth and adapts well into future incarnations

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or other-world adventures with and without steady form, as such experiences derive from an itinerary set out to facilitate progression: bagism, loverism and Jellicle Peptomism. Narcissism is best resolved when left alone, except in the most abject of cases. Empirical results aren't sufficient to identify a particular ideology as practical for our purposes in making our creations; results may be too narrowly constrained, "off the mark," or misconstrued as interpreted. In part, what makes art beautiful is its nature as evidenced by a product/process continuum - practical or impractical. Jellicle Peptomism is an "umbrella" under which all religions coexist in peace; it is a primitive and a call from the heights of technology both. It is a proposition: love God with all your heart, your mind and your soul and your neighbour [or fellow Peptomist] as yourself.

"Handle me with care" says George Harrison.

A post-mythic life is a legend reorganized in a higher dimension after having taken the stage as a story well-enacted on Earth and in the best of cases, beyond the netherworld also. A post-mythic organizational process includes a bagism, loverism and Jellicle Peptomism and denies the conventions of literature and film as sufficient unto themselves for the best understandings possible to arise such that what might edify and inspire, even in pockets of interlocution full of insights too pretentious to be called that. A narcissism upset with a narcissism..

Primordial sound resonates most completely and healthfully in the human body and its environment (more than a refined and cultured sound) in peace than in and by whatever primordial instrument (like the didgeridoo) in nature. When the audience is perfectly ill-prepared, having willingly suspended disbelief, the audience is welcomed to feel wonder by God Herself.

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Maybe my hubris went back to the IRA with the horn I borrowed from them upon snaking out their marching band The Optimists Alumni. I spend too much time in bed (say the people who try to enlighten me beyond bed peace) to put in the grunt work necessary to be a functional spy from another dimension o r s y m p h o n i c m u l t i -instrumentalist, neither of which are possible or pay very well. I work with a computer making music that may one day come to life after being set free from chips, keyboards, 1s and 0s. Maybe in the astral some time from now. Hang on, I hear a bell, it may be my hubris or it may be my other enemy.. The past. No, its the sound of freedom, its amazing grace. Back to Bed Peace, back to flower power, never the USSR. God save the Queen.

Even the publicans love their friends; love thine enemy.

Her Majestys a pretty nice girl but she doesnt have a lot to say.

No one is ready to forgive their past in these contemporary times because to do so without sufficient understanding has become uncouth. Genius is not to be forgiven... The multitudes seem to be waiting for Jesus, the pizza or the next infomercial (wasnt The Secret great?) By releasing salvation from our own hands, it is relegated to an airy-fairy new age, 12 steps to cult deity worship,

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low church attendance and meditation in whatever forms it might take but mostly on objects that obscure the evanescence of the Cosmic. Not bad, but incomplete. Salvation is a reminder of Who You Really Are as much as much as a coronation at Calvary. Salvation is a negation of a need for salvation. The multitudes are not only wrong: let the dead bury their own dead and you go preach the gospel.

For me, for a time the gospel was a UFC version of Oprah vs. The Church (in the collective unconscious and manifestly) that plagued the conscience of too few to mention. But look, I mentioned it. Peccator (deadly sinners) refuse to feel meaningful spiritual pain and live it again and again. Who is ready to make way for the coming of The Lord and with Him, peace profound?! It is hard to find the appropriate faith and partly because how vocally and sentimentally the sinners say they love war (in covert terms as well as forthrightly.) Releasing the past (as music or as vibrations otherwise) and making amends are married processes. As within, so without; as without, so within and have a happy New Year.

Our own inner struggles, when we are ashamed of them, beget a naivety that peace is not our responsibility. We may become as bratty children screaming (even if quietly in our heads) about our needs at an indifferent universe instead of taking it by the reigns and driving it to exactly the spot where the pot of gold ends and the rainbow begins. It is incumbent that we do this because they paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Prosperity is the new peace... A peace native to the Elysian plains is on the horizon! It has been set free by the storm to end all storms. Imagine that!

Disease is Over (if you want it)

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Our lives are precious and unique. If 99% of our experience denies truth as such then it is the other 1% that we need to recall to accept, and better, to cherish it; once a bed of sentimentality and now fertile soil for seeds, whose roots become a foundation for the future, whose trunk becomes our integrity and whose leaves keep us cool after standing in divine light. Who are we? We are mystics, crusaders, philosophers and lovers. The 1% world is that well-spring from which we need to draw in order to preserve ourselves and to grow. It is the closest object to the Supernal Light. A life is precious and unique and a moment lost can never be regained. No moment was ever lost. As breathing into here and now becomes ok, the more truths written and discovered become self-evident in yet others. The 1% world is the best of our lives in the most economical condition. The 1% World is immortal mind, immortal memory.

Happy Science on Putting the Horse Before the Cart in Physics: The human mind is not merely a moralistic existence, but was created according to the Physics of the Light of Buddha. This rule states that the universe exists according to Buddhas will, and that the cosmic laws are governed by the Physics of the Light of Buddha. In other words, the laws that control this world and those realms beyond can all be attributed to the various qualities of the Light of Buddha. This is an idea that is supported by the majority of physicists in the Real World. -Hidehito Idera

What will you do with your mirror? The bathroom mirror, the rearview, the decorative mirror.

Manipulative art (particularly film) fails by what it interprets for the spectator and what it leaves open to interpretation. Culprits often responsible for film that leave little to the conscience or imagination or are so abstract as to be bordering on meaningless,

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include, superfluous repetitions of thoughts in symbols, fantasies or words spoken, There are so many visitations from lost loved ones in the film, "What Dreams May Come" the fact that "death is not the end" becomes cause for as much upset as relief, depending on who shows up to the film and how the spectator shows up to the film. What adds insult to injury are non-diegetic elements, typefaces and scores, which contaminate the story world as much as improve it at a time when Hollywood films are just pretentious in a different form from how art house film are pretentious, the former trusts magic as if it's God and the second is atheistic. "Buzz" which is technically something that exists outside the cinema is still laden with manipulations by advertisements which prime certain kinds of thoughts over others and associate them with the work before the traitor reel has started to run.

How does the Peptomist aspirant develop a compassion for people for whom he or she has no sufficient basis for a sympathy or is in a position such that pity is an inappropriate response? Sympathy as felt is a harmonic resonance based in shared or similar experience and lends itself to the reasoning with which such feeling need co-occur to meet a full definition of a sympathy. No sufficient ground for a pity based in an unevenness in powers of authority can fulfill the requirements for a compassion either. In certain cases a fall back of laughter with the absurd or the extension of a helping hand, in kindness, are sufficient to meet the requirements of moral situations but still do not lend themselves to the enlightenments a compassion can entail. There is also compassion in suspending the desire to benefit from compassion or to bring benefit to another by one's own extension of compassion or one's understanding of compassion. Suspension of Self and self-concept gives a breath to the Self suspended and in that reinvigorates in a more accurate expression of Who it Really Is. Solutions to the problem of impossible compassion often

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require a creativity in reasoning, empathizing and in the best cases, trouble-shooting or planning.

In many a tragic case, false humility and inverse narcissism join up to create a air of superiority unbeknown to its beholder. While at first it can be endearing it invariably comes to be a spiritual hindrance if not a non-starter. False humility curtails real humility mostly by a negative feedback loop by perception in the other as an inaccurate barometer of another's sentiments.

Before bagism comes a narcissism which includes a mistake on individualism or collectivism. Before narcissism, whether experienced as the wounded toddler or the misanthropic genius, or in nature as demiergos masquerades as maple trees, squirrels and.. whats that? I think its the beginning of Peace Profound. It is the hurt and not its expressions that compassion aims to remedy. The expression gives the ocean a reflection of itself, it blossoms as a flower and dies to a ground consecrated by the salt of the Earth.

In one sense the revelation of spirit is complete and in another sense it can never be complete. In the first sense, because ordinary people have arrived at personal liberations and have attained illumination of the mind the task of acting out myths, once exhilaration and constituent of a seeming all there is to some, transmutes into a battle of the intestines with a wise old woman here, an interest in cooking but for another and quaint stories about days once understood but now wonderful again at nothing as grand as the end of history but as powerful as the mustard seed that moved the mountains in our hearts that released the floodgates on love as felt. There is nowhere to go, there is nothing to do, says one of the gurus of The Secret film I made fun of earlier. In another sense, as long as the spirit of

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discovery is alive, God might even conceal known truth so it might be discovered again, not only so improvement in their c o m p r e h e n s i o n a n d elucidation of their core but also for the joy of it, in another society and particular to it, in the future as a retro movement a b o u t t h o u g h t , i n o n e s imagination, etc. After the revelation of spirit is complete,

whether it be a work of art that captures and transmits a sense of renewed possible, a religious service that reaffirms knowledge of the immortality of the soul, right relationship with ones fellow person and the answer to Mr. Walkers quandary, how can men whove never seen light be enlightened? For each day a sufficient trouble thereof, says an old Zen saying.

Mother Nature's Other Son,

P.S.

Bagist art immortalizes its intended message in its decomposition and beyond its decomposition in its evolution in the life well-lived, as artefacts of bagism and to bagism, and in response to bagism and lastly progression free from bags. The Baggiest art tends to be shit. It belongs in the garden so it might foster new growth as manure.. It needs to be quickly chopped up and never digested unless as a methamphetamine at the Cavern. Evolution proceeds: life well-lived with another as loverism and in response to loverism sates bagist lovers in their loverist jonesing and, again,

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begs the beyond. Loverism and bagism each end in a recognition of their necessity and futility in a confusion about time. Art reaches the apex of its power to move in the reality and immortality of experience and thought as Jellicle Peptomist, part of a fellowship, in love with one's former bagmate, God and cellophane flowers and marmalade skies. Without Lucy (and all her diamonds) as a point of reference, art can seem foreign or in some way inhuman as modernisms and post-modernism mutate into something too young to suffer a christening. So, picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine seas and marmalade skies. When revisited, Bagism and loverism take on the character of "the lovers" archetype in isolation and aloneness; purpose and passion before a faith in oneself and ones work, a restored sense of dignity, the ability to synergies and a release from beliefs in ego-centrists as either sinful or necessary. A Peptomist culmination earns former loverists a Christian grace. Jellicle Peptomism makes way for an influx of grace by virtue of how its Author leaves it in your capable hands. The Peptomist faith is not my invention or creation, but a discovery of an emergent reality.

[The reason I use the word Peptomist is to indicate a preference to stay free from pharmaceuticals and at worst, require a dose of the Bismal to overcome an indulgence in wine or whining within

reason and always in consultation with ones physician (as a Reiki Master I m r e q u i r e d t o s a y that.)]

"And in the end the love we take is equal to the love we make.

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We reach an equilibrium by augmentations and advancements in the quality of conscious and functions of mind earned from timely departures and restorations from the imagined confines of our minds to a patriotism for the Undiscovered Country.

A bagism/loverism developmental hitch: the object of one's devotion need not be a lover but a practice, study, guru or friend also suffices. In a Jellicle Peptomism a practice, a study, a guru and a friend are requisite to real progress while lovers and partners come (and go) to suit our needs but moreover the needs of the Cosmos to bring people together in waits suitable to its nature and the proliferation of that nature.

A spaces theory of mental visitation as a quarternity that develops alongside a continuum to Peptomism.

"Cold Turkey has Got me on the Run" becomes a mantra, a maxim and a distant memory, by evolution.

It is a fact that "Imagine" plays on the radio every day and multiple times.

John is lost in deep reflection, again, listening for depths in "Yesterday."

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another. - John Lennon