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A HISTORY OF THE SOL.AR SYSTEM/ FRAGJ.viENTS: A HISTORY OF

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Bill Griff i t hs

Published by Writer s Forum, 262 Randolph Avenue, London w.9. and Pirat e Press 107 Valley Drive , London N.W.9.

June 1978

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There bubbles of fire planetary scent ot cinder t hat means doubt in pro­gress or no way is our source of centres' syst ems degree. Therefore t here creation and forerrost place were of all coJ'Il)l1cated questionsso emphat ::­ically pre-eminent, thatit jibes and enquires 9rthe deSTgnations quot ed If they f~ly ~present practically 01..1£ Earth's best d~c~ relationship to t~e Almigh_!Y, to doub! i:_f the great solC!I' system unquest ionabl y revolve3 happily through our large scent of death, so t o make acted out by force - . . ......... - - - . the neo-sacral punchy functions of qorrain, as type of Can:>usel, Hyperion and Ymir (bit~ of white brain,-bit~ £f ~y br ain, bit~ £f black brain pumped up as clouds) •

ii SUN As the form of an untidy ball of (yelloo) wool, with bad-wound l oops and strands tumbling out. It is the present fusiona.lly-powered centre of the system, from that erranates heats and lights as cosmic rays , and winds and a mighty and all-pervadi ng gravitation , holding the pl anets in orbit as by guess-work. 1

MERCURY A srrall harshly-hot or b pocked with craters about; with an iron centre ; its colour , to us , rrore or less pink. In its spin-orbit it reson­ates with the sun, rroving by ellipse .

VENUS The corrosive planet; brightest planet ; has furious , super-furious winds; rrassive atrrosphere .

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EARTH A very useful, semi-stable planet ; the only errot ional pl anet; it i s both circular and oblate, pear-shaped or infi nit-ely symretrical ; alrrost everything of it we know, misleads us .

MARS Red, also blue and yell ow and white; once thought of as inhabited ; its two noons, Phoebus and Deirros, curiously or non-circularly shaped, as irregularly or non-like, as misshaped .

ASTEROIDS Planetissirrals and building debris, ••• no great planet but Ceres and Pallas, Juno , Vesta, Astraea, Hygeia, Psyche and hundreds oore.

JUPITER Largest of the planets, a t housandth the mass of the Sun and com­positionally similar t o t he sun. In shape, distorted by rotation , a globe bulged at the equator.

SATURN Also a benign satellite, Ti tan.

The ASTEROID Hidalgo wanders in between orbits of Saturn and Mars ; less far but as eccentric go Icarus, Adonis and Apollo.

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iii Universe survey; Music; Found Text - Titan ; Mars - Ninurta , canal god; Drugs associated with each Planet - the proper drug belonging to t he Sun etc as gold, run, :rrercury ; Earth - t he Seasons ; Music - Harrrony ; A Protest against the vampire population of Earth; Inhabi tants of the System and their ideas of continuity as aggregation ; Interstellar Police re borders­frontiers of celestial spheres also collisions and manipulation of r e­straint, by which it's nade how all t he spheres sri.ld sing - Note , though, the entire absense of such a police ; Star Observations - in early millen­ia govt and star observations support each other.

iiii So that the bitterness in t he absense of any erstwhile sanctuary, idea of rro:rrentary fun, light blue arid sorre primrose colourful cranes, disf igured with dock-place, that blew the goods in , like through a rrousetrap , in the current, now one personified governing force i s no l onger safe, prize roses torn up, millions of kinds of trash, on a beauti ful August evening dutiful paupers we're cl ose t o by definition is anarchi cal.

v I read in Artaucl The inhabitants of t he Vegan system TO HAVE DONE WITH' How will we ascend? Everywhere THE JUDGMENT OF GOD with the consent of the local galaxies geared only to all the acted Cruelty, continuity. The aggregation, in stability, can define itself in implementing isolation toward.s the Earth, as being t o extirpa t e . .• Note : of increasing activity, the bestial risk of unconscious human animality - Extended that }X)Wer from change danger as a progress, out from Earth, is to absolutely ex­clude rrost of all, is ant i-change beautifully the form of the dead-who­live requests entrap and toy against for help that alone could help, the live in detail alive, as in a sort of derronstrating and the Terran sphere if I wanted too by its government hateful curiosity an irremedial there can appear no change a ghetto of protecti on and no arrending as one per­son vampires not evoking cannibal destruction power against power this muld need can do nothing about the judgment only alive RESOLVED what­ever miracles this can only be handled j ust the being alive could be nade and alive as to di scourage the contact and expansion is the total left there far beyond our galaxy. Enforced constr,uctive this decision Terra auto-destructi ve not to be corrnnunicated :implementing isolation to Earth

Vl Ascent, to description of mods , to Solar System.

I tell kid: I am om run: Sunflower: what muld improve system: rejected: from gang of sunflower rronopolists : I have secret (of new seeds): sen­tencing on LSD: BBC lairents waste of effort, waste of t alent, ?Tell kid: when they could have helped : or says t hey nay have thought about improve­rrent: but I explain: but were mistaken: I cannot do this

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vii Thru the 3ate t he track i s two wide depressions from tyres and a raised centre; it goes parallel t o ·the beck and beside it then curves to go up the side of the incline , t hat i s past the shed containing the generator often also the dog is ther e up to the farmhouse itself and then by a ladder on to t he alps above t he f arrn~ wher e t he whole system i s viewable if you will t ake it in, so rrany tmlatched rhythms. It i s not forests or contours that can house great giants, t hese must be invisible they must be much faster than veloci ty of light to t r ead easily and undetectable, or without symnetry .

viii What I aimed to see Is Science, Fact, steel-stone, established, soITEthing bad, harsh-set, built right-wing, stability or purpose of power , lucky it's confused by Pseudo-Fact , Unstraightness, r•iblx:ms racing; or i s it knowledge benefic­ial, hopeful, is it the Museum of Man-Soul . left - winged and under kick of i gnor ance, rrob , Duke Dict ator ? It only sorts l oose when you say knowledge is always equal to power.

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It ran: pipes, tubing laid by crane against retaining posts, plugged into forming a cont inuous l ine, pass into cleaning-acid then tin suspended and electrolyted arolll1d , to two co.:::.tings or two bat hs in the line then acid and short spray-cool when they are unplugged and l ast washed in and out by hose for recraning . . I t is l ulling and thirsty, that the process is thousand by thousand and t he noi se of cracking and big-clanging unsweet, or stink, there you sweat and chill at once . I f I take off power and law, still it is all in real part , not the coarse macrofiX, a cut foot just as mutable.

xii Waiting. One side is brick and brick opposite t o i t ; before is a bridge between them, a great chimney, between cloud and blue parts , all t he sarre thing or a calm blue-and-brick. Otherwise what I saw is just look­ing at , looking into , a million indexes .

xiii Planet has city with gold cement, gol d stacks, basalt, rrolybcl.enum, stink of it , I srroke and srroke against that, all there the propa­ganda as city death is good death, pity our city, a clean bin is a proud bin , holiday house , garnet, granity. I buckle 1I'\Y knee, no seraph 'ports over and holds me, I hole 1I'\Y in-of-elbow, no god hits at me , or no l inkage from of alabaster bi otite or plasma appears completing peopl e. Never.

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URANUS An ice planet, as a smudged orb.

NEPTUNE An ice planet.

PLUTO Faint to us, and grossly fluctuating . A proposited once-rroon of Neptune . Its orbit pronolll1edly ell ipse .

COMETS , varying, out:rrost and near as random in action, neither escaping nor properly regulat ed. They enter and leave the inner sys ­tem spasrrodically.

Past this, the effective l imit to the system, the HELIOPAUSE, past which is other systems at work.

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Small box, crystal , cool rocks, slight gutter of the hymn-book, of the cool rocks of the sun

Shell, cup, spider, sun, horse, tree, girder, brigade, trunkless, boot, neon, Opel

sun, sugar, cobalt, salad, squinting, bluster, sheer, activate, gradation, pollution, petrification

dawn, digger, curtain, shape of, line of, missal, finger, teacup, rreat, syrup, star •..

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The Universe eats i tself , we are a l oop of i t : literally, from chewed bones in pre-:-Africa to the caves of M.aybole, couple and kids and grand­children eating , even sperm that tastes or suck of a cut or kiss.

"The limitless availability of things, one to another, will have to be rraintained by violence. " As if, within the loop.

Who Sparrow, Robin and arrow, said the, who the Fly, die, little eye, my, I caught, Who the Fish, blood dish , who caught , Who'll Beetle, shroud and needle , my thread and make , I , said the , Who'll Owl, grave and shovel, I'll, With my pick, Who' l l Rook, parson and be, book, little book, said the Owl, Who ' ll Lark, clerk , dark , I f i t 's not, carry, in the dark, Who'll be, said the Linnet, link and minut e , Who 'll carry, I'll fetch, Who'll Kite, coff in and night , I, said the , If i t's not, be chief, wno'll Dove, chief love , dying, said the Dove , I ' ll be chief, I rrourn, wno'll Wren, pall on the hen, I'll rrourn, the cock and the hen, We, said the Wren, the Thrush, littl e book, sing a psalm, on a bush, As she sat, I'll sing, Who'll Bull, the bell and pull, said the Bull, farewell, All the birds, Fell a' sighing, I can , and a' sobbing, Because , When they heard, Wno' 11 toll, said the Bull , the bell toll, When, a 'sighing, poor Robin, fell a', killed , said, the air , of the air , and a ' sobbing . •.

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In the distance a l i ght twinkles i t will be the pn'.)secutor•s contention there is a branch of blossom of a gr'Oup of golden chances idealistic persons who believed what l ife i s all about in the midst of day positive steps we don't count at all . •.

I am added to. Not by paragraphs. People did it, i t doesn't need thanx.

A farreyard showed up : geese orange-gross above stones between doors: by the jig the tip of the goose i s one'd with the flowers and the web of the goose-foot stands with t he wing of the second: as so m:my smiling heads coupled and regener ated as pert new organs questing each other with l ip and bill under pn'.)d, puzzle, please and proper. Lots of figures f i ll the yard, hoping to grow in colour.

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foo t s tamen f inge r coin beak vertebra

pisti l pe nis mandible petal probosis unguate

hair pollen c ornet button sceptre horn

claw trumpet trunk barbule operculum star-point

It is good to wander from the study of countless numbers thick as the flakes of snow a really beautiful and elaborate contrivance along the coast, extended upwards , the essence of the attraction of gravity, as far as could be seen with a telescope even as perfect as an eagle's eye . We can distinguish this or that branch, by which all the infinit ely rn.ureruus pollen-granules are swept out, so I believe it has been with the grieat Tree of Life, which fills with i t s dead and bruken branches the crust of the earth

Anna daughter of I names I London I Puma Court I 88 I Ronald

baby I Abraham I str eet I departed I wife and I necropolis I

Multi-Way I Algol I aetatis 80 I square I of the above I

White Conduit I beloved of I sun passage I churchyard I Eus t on

In one science, the disk of t he pre-solar system was a great turbulence, a totality not a pattern, of eddies, vast or so, so that natter only accreted at the quiet r ims and interstices of these eddies, places such as turbulence was rejecting.

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it it i s it is the it is the crown •.•. and the skin i t ches like t icking billion wristwatches I while it is the reverse . • • • • it it is

it it is it is the it is the horse ... he lopes up r ound like t he crown of life I a sweet rim /

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it it is it is the acts spins a bout casts a way the powerful panorama it is it i s t he it is the centre •• · ·

Lord of bright-red, of bright bandage, of the binding of a fast j ol t a glad heart •• .

Of the Sea stamp-to-toss, like viril ' st of crewrren, bumpst boat over the back-disk of Apophis, bad sand bar •••

Loni that attaches on heads, rrakes the neck one again, unnak:es wound and t hread-work, You

Tow rre. • • dif f i -difficult land. . • where t here topsy, turvy stars fall 'n t heir faces 'n ' cannot r i se, chaoted, c'lapsed,

Tows. • • guides t he wierd boat, directs

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