Tim Barrus Blog
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The Ha Ha
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The layering makes a lot of sense. When we want to connect with other people, it’s more a matter of two brains scanning each other. The operant word here is: smell. Those with it are like the witches in the father christmas tales where it has to be in the…
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Autism
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I just can’t belong to the autistic tribe. And they don’t want me, anyway.
You can’t keep all the hurtful stuff at arm’s length and that is expressed in compelling ways, I was diagnosed with autism at age 6 by school psychologists. Why. Because I was reading. Especially Marx, physics,…
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U R only 1 person With Only 1 Voice So Pretend 2 Have a Thousand & This Is Hubris
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You are one person. One voice. One way of seeing what might be real. Just Being a Homo Sapien’s Sapien, for all these sapiens, it seems little progress has been at what would be a self-generated evolution that at least hopefully wants to save the world.
It is a disgusting,…
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The Ghosts of Appalachia
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Herbert and Helsinki are old. They live on an island in Appalachia. In other words, they’re my neighbors. They have a boat. It is a little boat. They grow corn, make whiskey, and ride shotgun on their dirt bike. My bike is bigger than their bike. Your bike is your…
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He Jests at Scars But Never Had One
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It took him a long time of agony and fear to say “Good morning,” And yet his eyes flashed just at the same time I was telling him it was nice to see him, and in this social setting he flinched a lot. Then, his eyes kept their slow cosmic…
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There Lurks a Darkness
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Don’t Open That Door
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I think there was this lizard thing (I’m not sure it was alive) under the bed.
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So How Does It Feel When
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The New York Times Blacklist
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Tim Barrus and Lars Eighner
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I totally underestimated Lars Eighner’s seriously disturbed hatred of me following me every day for literally a decade. He published my address. I had it shut down and deleted. I never saw his viability as a writer and I rejected his work he threw at Drummer and it was a…