[new addendum:  resent to you as I've never recieved my copy--is this Mr. Newman, perhaps formerly the Mr. Stewart known and loved by "Tina and Kate" of Talking Heads" and "B-52's," for *real* or is he an FBI "agent provacateur" lookalike, born in 1953 outta Ken-tuck_EEE! and a former bus driver fired for "weed positive testing"? like my "intelligence" network keeps trying to "warn me" about him interfering with my civil rights and liberties...Please assist my attorney, Mr. Patrick S. Hallinan, "Hallinan and Boro," (415)-536-4111, if you could be so kind...]

Dear Mr. Plimpton, "Editor"
"The Paris Review":
(re: yesterday's email to  you)

Attached are the files that I was unable to upload yesterday; the
"word docs" allegedly can be transmitted by email, if not, the "html"
files are included as backup...

I took the liberty of adding  a poem written around the time of my
hoop piece ("Country Friends"), as well as a recently revised poem,
"(Peregrine) Auguring," as the work is short and sweet...

With any skill of my networking, I'll be attending the "Art of the
Wild" Conference at Squaw Valley this summer, and  very much look
forward to meeting you; if not, my dear friend Mrs. Kingston (a leader
along with Gary Snyder) will be able to run down my necessary
credentials for you and your publication.

Thank you again for your time and consideration,
tom



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