5094. AS TO JUPITER

AS TO JUPITER

Bringer of jollity, I think Holst calls it. I don't know.

Jollity is Happiness, correct? Planets just make me 

scared. I read once that they were all alive  -  

and I believe that.

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I believe, in fact, because I want to, that the only 

dead universe is the one in our heads  -  that all we 

have is alive and running all the time. We simply don't

 receive the signals correctly. These planets aren't 'planets'. 

They're living, fiery things with lives and places all their own  -  

out of our time and involved in something else. We're only seeing, 

let's say, their dead backsides, what's left that faces us.

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What they see of us is indistinct and passing, as all things 

are moving on. We live; they live. Together;

as the ancients knew, who named and

gave to us all these things we only

now have glimmers of, faintly.