Maxine the Dear One:

Just a short note to say Thank You Very Much, in case I've not told you said matter of late...

I was bemusing, on one of my late night walks, the rain a light drizzle, the mist hanging so peacefully above the streetlights muted by the fullness of the air's moisture, that if even ONE of the feats on my behalf that I keep "hearing" you've somehow "pulled off" is "the truth," why, once again, I am forever indebted in your service...

my very best for you and family,
tom

P.S. I asked our dear friend Maria to re-register my poetry (some of it has been revised, in any event) so that the matter could assist me in legal/"The Trial" matters as an "Exhibit" which, in "theory" or "prophesis" of law, as Justices like Oliver Wendelll Holmes used to say, precludes these "hair-brained, clucking professional *id-jeets*" like that dumb cocksucker "Ala. Co. Dep. D.A. Jack Radisch" et al from blathering and blithering, *"There's no way it's the Great Fake's [allegedly myself] poetry!*"...

You, of course, are still my "main squeeze" as my "business agent" (said, of course, in High Irony), and, per your request, I'll always await hearing What You Have in Mind as to "my works-in-progress." As you seem to enjoy this Thankless Task of "marketing me," well, wheel and deal to your heart's content...(and I'll always remain fascinated by you, that matter of far more importance than those "pieces of paper," subject to Time's "yellowing" and fading of "bright ink," anyway...
 

Thomas Francis Noonan, SAKYA LAMA
"Globe of Dharma Enterprises"
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--"...Hence, thou suborned informer, a true soul
  When most impeached, stands least in thy control."
              Sweet Will Shakespeare, *Sonnet 125*

--"Him do I hate who even as the gates of hell who says one thing while he hides another in his heart."
               Achilleus in Homer's *The Iliad*, Book IX

--"Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;/ For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me with a lying tongue./They compassed me about with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause./ For my love they are adversaries: *but I give myself unto prayer*./ And they have rewarded me evil for good; and hatred for my love./ Set a wicked man over [them]..."
           *Psalm of David*, 109

--"...Better than brute strength of men, or horses either,
is the wisdom that is mine..."
               Xenophanes (545B.C.) #1, trans. R. Lattimore

--'Petty people imitating others will use this in a perverse and sinister way, even getting to the point where they can destroy families and usurp countries.  Without wisdom and knowledge, you cannot preserve your home with justice and cannot preserve your country with the way.'
        re: *tsung-heng-hsuen from 'The Master of Demon Valley,'
        18,19, a classic Taoist text translated by Thomas Cleary,
        'Thunder in the Sky' (Shambhala, 1993)

--"Those who fail to cultivate the inner meaning and concentrate instead on the outward expression never stop indulging in ignorance, hatred and evil while exhausting  themselves to no avail.  They can deceive others with postures, remain shameless before sages and vain before mortals, but they'll never escape the Wheel, much less achieve any merit."
     Ta Mo (Bodhidharma), "Breakthrough Sermon" (Red Pine trans.)

--'What is gained by tears will go by tears.  In the end, goodness
  Reaps many good things, though it begins with loss.'
              Gurudeva's Vedic Trikurals,Verse 659
Verse 660:

        'Protecting the country by wrongly garnered wealth
         Is like preserving water in an unbaked pot of clay.'

--"I call it praise to suffer Tyrannie"
              Sir Philip Sidney, *Astrophil and Stella*

--"And when he stumbleth striking there his foot,
Fallen on evil days, the tyrant's pride
Shall measure all the miserable length
That parts rule absolute from servitude.'
               Aeschylus, *Prometheus Bound*

--The Bhagavad Gita explains, "As a blazing fire
reduces the wood to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge reduce all activity to ashes. There is nothing on earth which possesses such power  to cleanse as wisdom. The perfect yogin finds this knowledge in himself by
himself in due time." Aum Namah Sivaya.

--"...principles form[ing] the bright constellation of that which has gone before us, and guided our steps..."
    Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801

--"Fierce courage is what they call valor,
And Chivalry to the fallen forms its sharp edge."
         Gurudeva, Trikural Vedas, v.773

--"The intellectual should constantly disturb, should bear
witness to the misery of the world, should be provacative
by being independent, should rebel against all hidden and
open pressures and manipulations,should be the chief doubter of systems...and for this reason, an intellectual cannot fit into any role that might be assigned to him...and essentially doesn't belong anywhere: he stands out as an irritant wherever he is."
  --Vaclav Havel, quoted by Alan Clements, *Aung San Suu Kyi, The Voice of Hope*
      (Seven Stories Press, 1997), p. 121

--"...We will try it out with you, ye that have harried and held,
Ye that have bullied and bribed, tyrants, hypocrites, liars!"
            --Padraic (Patrick Henry) Pearse (1879-1916)

--"If there is one tall pine-tree standing, the forest has not ended..."
         Olde Tibetan saying