My father and I shared a birthday and that day was, or is today. I suppose I received many gifts from my father over the years – for all sorts of occasions, but the only book I remember getting from him (other than a Nietzche text he’d designed and printed himself at the Gewerberschule Basel) was a novel by Stendhal. I was already in college by that time and sort of overwhelmed with reading and I actually never really got around to reading it. Here’s an odd thing that happened yesterday while I was hunting dandelions and jet planes. I came upon a box marked “Free” and the only thing inside was copy of Stendahl’s, “The Red And The Black” . This edition was printed by something called “The Modern Library of Great Books”… I don’t know when, as I think it’s missing most of its front pages ( however, I do know that it was owned by someone who went to Yale and was a memeber of Pierson College: P is for the P in Pierson College is the only college fight song worth a damn.)… What’s really interesting to me is the picture of Prometheous (?) carrying the torch that was the gold, embossed logo for “The Modern Library”. It seems like the other side of the Butoh demon dandelion god I was making… Knowledge is I suppose, a two edged sword and there are demon ghosts and angels dancing on that razor’s edge.