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   David Dalton to All   
   Re: Trying again   
   27 Mar 24 15:10:56   
   
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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Mar 26, 2024, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2BB392FD00D65C4E70000D02D38F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > On Mar 25, 2024, David Dalton wrote   
   > (in article<0001HW.2BB2526800920A3270000D02D38F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
   >   
   > > I failed again leading up to full moon and then again   
   > > with full moon onset.   
   > >   
   > > Perhaps I should wait for on or about the total solar eclipse.   
   > >   
   > > But no, I am trying again (and note that I have made several   
   > > changes since my last posted attempt, and will list them in   
   > > a post if anyone asks me to) beginning three hours   
   > > ago, hoping that the following will prove auspicious:   
   > >   
   > > 1. Waning Clamshell Moon   
   > > 2. the tombstone rolls aside phase of moon (revealing me?)   
   > > 3. the picture with the “death and impermanence’ poem   
   > > in The Turquoise Bee book   
   > > 4. “the hill is shifting sand” (see my signature)   
   > > 5. waning gibbous moon is a phase of moon when I have never   
   > > had a significant mystic experience, so may be due for one.   
   > > 6. for any Christian readers, it is the night of Holy Monday.   
   >   
   > That attempt failed again, and I am trying again with three more   
   > changes, beginning at 2237 UTC March 26, 2024. The   
   > above six points still apply except that it is now the night   
   > of Holy Tuesday (Fig Tuesday, which I guess was important   
   > to Sylvia Plath, plus my poet sister has a potted fig tree   
   > which I help bring out in the late spring and in in the fall   
   > every year).   
   >   
   > Tonight I have to do some scientific proofreading for   
   > probably three hours, including more than one Fig. (Figure, ha).   
      
   That attempt failed again, and I am trying again beginning   
   at 2:59 p.m. NDT (1729 UTC) March 27, 2024, so while   
   the sun is still up, for a change. I had to make one new   
   change, in who a.s.c. (4) will cover.   
      
   Again, did Sisyphus ever get over the top?   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;   
   And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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