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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Mar 27, 2024, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2BB491A800368CC770000459438F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > 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?   
      
   That attempt failed again and I am trying again starting at   
   2010 UTC March 28, 2024, which is Holy Thursday, also   
   known as Maundy Thursday. I didn’t really want or expect   
   any correlation with an existing religious holiday, but I guess   
   since Jesus is one of my minor deities and since I was   
   initiated as a Catholic (but am now pagan) and since my   
   parents were devout Catholics, a correlation with Easter   
   would not be unwelcome. But I still think I may have to   
   wait until the total solar eclipse (which maybe Sarah   
   could visit here to see; we are not far off the path of   
   totality), or even until on or about September 5, 2024   
   (three sunspot cycles after my sun stare) or on or about   
   January 29, 2025 (seven years plus two sunspot cycles   
   after my low years started, and which is a a new moon   
   and Chinese new year at the end of my Dragon year).   
      
   I was hoping to go hear Mick Davis at The Black Sheep   
   on George tonight from 9 p.m. to midnight but if I am   
   caught up tracking this new attempt I doubt I will go.   
   (He is the lead singer of The Novaks and of   
   Mick Davis and the Skinny Jims but plays solo   
   on Thursday nights, and tonight should be well   
   attended since Good Friday is a holiday).   
      
   --   
   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)