CADUCEUS

“……The Supreme Meaning is The Path, The Way and The Bridge to what is to come. That is The God yet to come. It is not the coming God Himself, but His Image which appears in The Supreme Meaning.

God is an image, and those who worship Him must worship Him in the image of the supreme Meaning. The Supreme Meaning is not a meaning and not an absurdity, it is Image and Force in ONE, magnificence and force together. 

The Supreme Meaning is The Beginning and The End. It is The Bridge of going across and fulfillment.

The other Gods died of their temporality, yet The Supreme Meaning never dies, it turns into Meaning and then into Absurdity, and out of The Fire and Blood of their collision The Supreme Meaning rises up rejuvenated anew. 

The Image of God has A Shadow. 

The supreme meaning is real and casts a shadow. For what can be actual and corporeal and have no shadow? 

The Shadow is nonsense. 

It lacks Force and has no continued existence through itself. 

But nonsense is the inseparable and undying brother of the supreme meaning. Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. 

There are many who need 

the shadows and not the light. 

The image of God 

throws A Shadow that is 

just as great as itself.”

This is How We Make The Peace

Firefly. Deleted Scene #2

The Infirmary, aboard Serenity,

Night-watch — 

Night 1 :

Shepherd Book :

How is she…?

Dr. Simon Tam, 

Brother of River :

Touch and go —

Shepherd Book :

I might pray over her a bit 

if you don't mind…(?)

Dr. Simon Tam, 

Brother of River :

Of course.

Shepherd Book :

She's a special girl -- we kind of 

got to be friendly right away —

Dr. Simon Tam, 

Brother of River :

….that's A Talent 

I seem to lack. 

Shepherd Book :

If I can ask -- What made 

you pick this ship? 

Dr. Simon Tam, 

Brother of River :

It looked disreputable -- 

Shepherd Book :

Well, you're not without credible judgment —

Didn't happen to look at the name I suppose? 

Dr. Simon Tam, 

Brother of River :

What, Serenity, right?

That's a joke, I believe. 

Shepherd Book :

It's not. 

Simon, you want to get The Lay of 

The Land here; might be what you lack 

isn't psychological insight; 

might be its History.

Dr. Simon Tam, 

Brother of River :

‘Serenity’ — Read. 

History Book :

“In The War to Unite The Planets, 

The Battle of Serenity Valley was among 

the most devastating and decisive. 

Located on Hera, the valley was considered 

a key position by both sides and 

was bitterly fought over.

The Independent faction, 

with 16 brigades 

and 20 air tank squads 

held The Valley against 

The Alliance forces 

for almost two months 

until Superior numbers --” 

Zoe Washburn :

…what does it say under 

‘Blood-Bath’…? 

“-- flank strategy by General 

Richard Wilkins X….”

Dr. Simon Tam, 

Brother of River :

I was just trying -- 

Zoe Washburn :

Not in there — The Book, I mean. 

We're not Generals or Diplomats, we didn't 

turn The Tide of Glorious History 

or whatever that thing 

is supposed to spew.

Dr. Simon Tam, 

Brother of River :

Well, you know What They Say,

“History is programmed 

by The Winners.” --

Zoe Washburn :

Nearly half a million people lay dead on that field 

at Day-end -- about 

a third of them, 'Winners'. 

Can you imagine that smell...?
Can you imagine piling up the bodies of soldiers of friends to build a wall cuz you got no cover --

Dr. Simon Tam, 

Brother of River :

Mal was there with you..?

Zoe Washburn :

He was My Sergeant --
Commanded 30-odd grunts 

5 days in, there were 

so many officers dead, 

he commanded 2,000 -- 

Kept us together; 

kept us fighting; 

kept us sane --

By the time The Fighting 

was over, he had 

maybe 400 still intact 

that's a hell of it --

....I said The Fighting 

was over, but you see --
They left us there, 

wounded and sick 

and near to mad as can 

still walk and talk -- 

Both sides left us there, 

while They negotiated 

The Peace for a week, 

and we kept dying --

.....when They finally sent in Med-ships, 

he had about 150 left, and of
our original platoon, just Me. 

Mercy; Forgiveness; Trust --

Those are things he left back there;

What he has now, is The Ship;
The Ship, and Us, on it. 

You get Kayleigh through this, 

I think He'll Do right by you.

He won't kill, 

unless he's got 

no other option 

Dr. Simon Tam, 

Brother of River :

....what if he tells 

You to Kill Me...?

Zoe Washburn :

I Kill you. 

Dr. Simon Tam, 

Brother of River :

.....just getting the 

Lay of The Land --

....if that battle was so horrible, 

Why'd he name The Ship after it....?

Zoe Washburn :

Once you've been in Serenity, 

you never leave -- just, 

learn to Live there....

The Human Flame

"The World Needs You Too Lois"

(Zack Snyder's Justice League)

Lois Lane :

Who is it?

Martian Manhunter,

doing 'Ma' Kent :

Martha.

Lois Lane :

Hi.

[softly] 

Hi.

Martian Manhunter,

doing 'Ma' Kent :

I went to The Daily Planet to 

finally pick up Clark’s things. 

[chuckles] 

I don’t know why, nowhere 

to put them now --

I lost The Farm. 

I’d been behind on the 

payments for a while. 

Truth is, The House is too big for me 

to live in by myself anyway.

Lois Lane :

Well, you know you’re welcome to stay here 

any time for as long as you need.

Martian Manhunter,

doing 'Ma' Kent :

Thank You, Lois. That’s very kind. 

But I’ve found a little place that 

suits me just fine, right by the diner. 

I’m not here for help. I’m here because 

when I saw Mr. Perry, he told me 

that you haven’t been to work 

since Clark died.

Lois Lane :

[sighs softly]

I can’t.

Martian Manhunter,

doing 'Ma' Kent :

The Whole World 

is mourning. [sighs]

Grieving over a symbol. Everywhere I go, 

everywhere I look, I see that “S.”

 

I hear What People Say. They talk

 like they knew him. 

But they didn’t know Clark. And I can’t stop them 

and look at them and tell them 

how proud I am of My Son. 

You’re the only one who knows. 

Who feels What I Do. 

Burdened by A Secret 

on top of Grief. 

I came all this way, because I wanted… 

because I wanted to see you. 

Tell you… I understand.

Lois Lane :

I… will never love anybody 

the way that I love your son. 

And I just miss him. 

I miss him so much.

[Lois sniffles]

Martian Manhunter,

doing 'Ma' Kent :

So do I, sweetheart.

[sighs]

Lois Lane :

Martha, you know if there’s 

anything you need, I’m here.

Martian Manhunter,

doing 'Ma' Kent :

There is something 

you can do for me, honey. 

Come back to The Living.

[door opens]

[suspenseful music plays]

Martian Manhunter :

The World needs you, too, Lois.

Hero-Cake

 

"And so we are left 

to wonder if Superman 

was aware of the threat and did 

nothing, was he then complicit 

in The Capitol tragedy?" 

Perry White :

Still no Kent? 

"His disappearance 

raises questions." 

No. 

"There are still so many unanswered questions. 

Chief among them, whether Superman was 

involved in the planning of this attack. 

I mean, here's an individual 

who has unlimited Power, 

yet did nothing to stop the bomb 

just a few feet away from him. 

It just doesn't add up for investigators. 

Burn him, burn him, burn him. 

Burn him, burn him, burn him. 

For $20 American, 

he didn't see you. 

Same for me. 

Now one FBI official familiar with this case 

told me they found, quote, :

"A jackpot of bomb materials 

inside Keefe's apartment. " 

What they need to determine now 

is whether he had any help 

in the planning and 

execution of the bomb. 

And they haven't ruled out the idea that 

Superman was a co-conspirator. 

Now, my sources are telling me 

they are getting a barrage of anonymous 

and credible tips with all roads 

in this investigation leading to 

The Kryptonian visitor. 

Gotham Cop :

All right, Lois. 

You gotta go. 

Lois Lane :

He didn't know he 

was gonna die. 

He just bought groceries. 

The Martian Manhunter :

The Wheelchair 

and The Bullet 

from The Desert were 

made from the same metal. 

Lois Lane :

I know. The Desert. The Hearing. 

Everywhere Superman goes, 

Luthor wants Death. 

The Martian Manhunter 

But, Luthor goes through 

all of that Trouble... 

Creates A Bomb out of 

A Wheelchair, 

and then alters it to 

reduce The Blast? 

Lois Lane :

What do you mean...? 

The Martian Manhunter 

The inside of The Chair 

was lined with Lead.

 

Lois Lane :

….You couldn't stop it;

You couldn't see it. 

On a Mountaintop :

Johnathan Kent's Ghost :

Something, isn't it? 

We Men of Kansas live on a pancake, 

so we come to The Mountains. 

All downhill from here, 

down to the floodplain. 

Farm at The Bottom of The World. 

I remember one season 

The Water came bad. 

I couldn't have been 12. 

Dad handed out the shovels 

and we went at it all night. 

We worked till, I think, I fainted. 

But we managed to Stop The Water. 

We Saved The Farm. 

Your grandma baked me a cake. 

Said I was A Hero. 

Later that day we found out 

we blocked The Water all right. 

We sent it upstream. 

The whole Lang farm 

washed away. 

While I ate My Hero-Cake, 

their horses were drowning. 

I used to hear them 

wailing in my sleep. 

Clark :

Did the nightmares 

ever stop? 

Johnathan Kent's Ghost :

Yeah. When I met 

Your Mother. 

She gave me Faith that 

There's Good in This World. 

She was My World. 

I miss you, son. 

Clark :

I miss you too, Dad. 

•••••••

Alfred :

You know you can't win this. 

It's suicide. 

Bruce Wayne :

I'm older now than 

My Father ever was. 

This may be the only 

thing I do that matters. 

Alfred :

20 years of fighting criminals 

in Gotham amounts to nothing? 

Bruce Wayne :

Criminals are like 

weeds, Alfred. 

Pull one up, another 

grows in its place --

This is about 

The Future of 

The World. 

This is My Legacy. 

My Father sat me 

down right here. 

Told me what 

Wayne Manor 

was built on. 

Railroads, 

real estates, 

and oil. 

The first generation 

made their fortune 

trading with The French. 

Pelts and skins. 

They were Hunters. 

Alfred :

.....so falls The House 

of Wayne. 

Watch Your Tone

Doctor Who : Rough and Tumble Machine Scene 

Re-Insertion and Breakdown

The City Centre : The Centre of Town

Joseph Campbell--Mythology of the First City States

"....it's hard for Us-Today, to realise what the perilous situation was of the early culture people in the near East the beginnings of Agriculture and domestication of animals for the Western world begins in the near East and the first signs occur somewhere around 10,000 BC we begin to see signs of the domestication of some of the animals of the neighborhood principally sheep and goats to begin with and then the pig comes in. 

Now, there may have been an earlier beginning in Southeast Asia, the finds that are taking place now in Upper in Northern Thailand are really spectacular in Transforming Our picture of the origins of Agriculture and so forth but for the history of civilization in the in the uh in in the Western World this area of the near East is crucial decisive up to let's say 10,000 BC all people were foraging Nomads hunters and uh root and vegetable gatherers around 10,000 BC the idea of domesticating your own food begins to take place as a result of this you have a more substantial and dependable economic base and uh increasingly large communities can begin to build up brings in a whole new problem of cultural organisation you begin to have Specialists you begin to have people whose specialisation is tilling the soil others who are trading people trading for goods uh with other uh centers and You Begin then also to have governing people who govern these uh en large communities specialist tasks the problem of organizing the community and the organized Community the viable unit which consists of one can say principally what turn out to be four casts the governor the uh uh Priestly ones who keep in touch with the Divine sources of uh dream and uh myth and spiritual information the uh trading and Merchant people and the uh toiling uh um peasants uh these are coordinated around a spiritual centre that represents the point that, "We're all differently trained, serving the same Centre, and The City-itself becomes, what we're calling today, a Mandela a sacred circle with a center and we're all related to that -- 

Now, there were two different developments out of the early uh Agricultural and domestication of animal base in the riverlands and in the high mountain valleys where it was possible to raise crops the accent would be on agriculture in the broad grazing lands the accent was on animal domestication and so you have hering people and there is a distinct separation as early let's say as the 8th and 7th centuries the seventh millenniums 8,000 7,000 BC uh between the settled agriculturalists and the still nomadic hering people where you have herders the male is the important person he's the one that is rounding up the animals that is uh killing the animals and protecting this herd against another herd so you have a warrior accent whereas when the toiling is that of Agriculture the relationship is to the Earth which is the mother she brings forth life and she nourishes life and so the female principle is a dominant one there now in this near East Zone there were three main group groups of people in these uh divisions one was the people in the uh riverlands and the high valleys agriculturalist whose principal deity was the goddess who is the world mother and the others were the two great hering communities one in the North in southern Europe the uh indo-europeans who were her as of Caple and who were the domesticators of the horse and invented the war Chariot became people of tremendous uh military power and the other were the people of the Siro Arabian Desert who are the semites and uh these were her as of sheep and goats and later the domesticators of the camel which became then the war camel and so forth and so on I think the earliest representation of the camel that we have in literature is in the Old Testament where Rachel comes on a camel to Abraham so we have uh these two Warrior people fighting in on the relatively peaceful uh settled areas and so we find around the sixth millennium BC that the little settled communities begin to have walls and the protection against these Warrior people who were tough fighting people and ruthless uh whether they're Indo European or semites the same story there comes a time then when the shift of accent goes to these Warrior people who have come in and become the overlords the dominant ones over a toiling community and uh this is what happens when oh 2350 BC we read of sag and the first s of a god this was a Semitic Monarch who comes in over the earlier Sumerian people he comes in around he his dates about 2350 BC then about 2000 BC there's a su Ian restoration and this is the period of building of many building of the great zigurat and most of our Sumerian texts come from this period the very important King important for us because the documents come from his time uh king guda of lagash and it's in uh his libation vase it's a little vase about so big with a symbol on it of a central post and two serpents with seven interlocking this is the earliest example we have is this caducous and then two cherubim that say lion birds birds that are human animal bird like with crowns opening the portals of a gate to reveal this this comes from G of lagash 2000 BC uh it's at that time that we have a Sumerian Resurgence but then income another group of Semitic people and become dominant at the time of U uh hamurabi is around 1750 BC and this is the time of the Gil gamish story and uh the uh loss of the serpent power from the uh individual it goes over to the serpents it's a very interesting story it's connected with the gilgames but that time they the cities are again having to defend themselves against more and more of these invading people the Hebrews come in then uh a good while later as uh raiding people again and you can read it in the Book of Genesis and I me the book of Exodus rather and in the judges of uh and Joshua of what happens to a city when these Warrior people come in and so you can see the wall is a very important protective feature and the city then as the culture unit with its Center and its spiritual life the center is always a temple so that the spiritual information is what coordinates and uh and uh validates the city

When I die. they won’t say anything but. “John Milius. who wrote Apocalypse Now, died this week.”

The screenplay started when I was in USC’s film school – the West Point of Hollywood -with George Lucas. We hadn’t met Francis yet. George and I were the two ringleaders at school, making student films and winning awards. George was sort of the good boy and I was the bad boy. I lived in my car. I was an anarchist surfer, a complete, consummate rebel and an anti-intellectual of the worst kind. I was threatened with dismissal every other day. I’ve always had a problem with authority.

The specter of the Vietnam War was hanging over all our heads. I was the only one who wanted to enlist – everybody else wanted to go to Canada or get married. I figured sooner or later I was going to go. so I signed up for the Marine Air Program, but I had asthma. so I washed out. Then I had to reconfigure my life because I hadn’t planned on living past twenty-six – nobody in the Sixties planned on living very long – and I had assumed my legacy would be a smoking hole in the ground over there.

Today in filmmaking there are mainly people who want to be famous, who aren’t driven by the need to tell a story. They just want the fame. Hack then. I never thought about the potential rewards of anything I did. I didn’t think about whether I was going to be paid, whether I was going to get a new BMW or a house in Bel Air or any of that kind of shit. I had what I needed. I had my surfboard. I was fit. I had girls. I was trained. I was a weapon. I just needed a mission. I was STRAC: Strategic. Tough. Ready Around the Clock.

At USC I had a writing teacher, Mr. Irwin Blacker, who gave that mission to me. He’d tell us exotic Hollywood stories, including one about how many filmmakers had tried to do Heart of Darkness – most notably Orson Welles – but that nobody had been able to lick it. I had read the book when I was seventeen and had loved it.

So that did it. I said. Not only am I going to do my Vietnam movie. I’m going to use Heart of Darkness as an allegory because if you’re going to be passing under the skeleton of an elephant, it will be much better if that skeleton is the tail of a downed B-52. I had the ambitious idea of going to Vietnam and shooting the film there.

When George tells this story, exaggerating everything, he’ll say Milius was really insane. The truth is. they all wanted to go. Cinéma vérité had become a popular idea then with the emergence of films like Medium Cool which had been shot during the riots at the ’68 Chicago Democratic convention.

We were going to do it dirt cheap: shoot a feature film in 16 millimeter in Vietnam while the war was going on -- Who knows, maybe we would have all been killed. 

This is Who We Are -- Wait. Worry. -- Who Cares?

Millennialism in The Keeper of Traken

"The original idea I had, was uh -- 

-- and this, I Think, was 1980 --

--but it was based on the notion that 

every thousand years, there are 

HUGE disturbances in 

The Social and Political 

universe, as we know it -- 

If you go back to The Time of Christ, that was a huge disturbance; back a thousand years beyond that, to The Fall of The Hittite Empire and everything that flowed from that; and more recently in our time where Islam and Christianity were in conflict and The Dark Ages and The Vikings and all that time of turmoil and stress, so it seemed to have a very respectable precedent --

And so all of these stories need something solid to hook into, and that was the hook for The Keeper of Traken. 

"At the heart of this ancient civilisation, which had worked out a way in which they could remain in harmonious union as -- I don't know whether it was Chris Bidmead's line, or my own but he says, um -- "A thousand years of people, just being terribly nice to each other --" and it's true, they were very nice to each other except, at the end of the thousand years, they started being not so nice to each other --"

Byrne's original concept featured at its centre a villain called Mogan, and the Trakenite people were divided into two factions -- 

"When I first submitted the idea, it had something that was more like The Japanese shogunate, rather than the  Shakespearean type-model that we later developed and it had two contending groups. 

The two groups were the scientific Grays and the spiritual Blacks with The Keeper in overall control 

"While the position of Keeper was one that controlled a great deal of power. it was one where The Ego-Itself, had to be buried in order for it to be successful, and therefore the choice of who was going to be Keeper was crucial and only the very best would be elevated to this -- 

If issues of personal ambition and power-seeking ever crept into the equation, the results would be catastrophic and of course it so happened, purely by accident that these elements of personal ambition and things, became mixed up in The Transition from one Keeper to The Next, in my story"

Thora and Thessaly

Thessaly :

Well now, I didn't know you two were friends — 

Well, we're fixin’

to be friendly

Thessaly :

“Fixing to Be Friendly” —

That can be my column-headline 

Tilda Swinton :

I play Thora and Thessaly, 

who are identical twins  — 

Eddie :

What kind of name 

is ‘Thora’, anyway?

Thora :

It’s a name that NINETEEN 

million readers TRUST —

Tilda Swinton :

 For being twins, 

people don't know who 

they're talking to —

which is weird.

Thessaly :

Hello Eddie —

Eddie Mannix :

Thessaly, yeah —

I just saw your…. 

….oh never mind.

Tilda Swinton :

They’re Cultural commentators —

Thora :

I'm NOT a GOSSIP-columnist!

Tilda Swinton :

Each is a thorn in 

each other side 

Thora : 

Don’t confuse me 

with my sister!

Tilda Swinton :

They definitely do compete 

for Stories —

Thessaly :

That cow - she wouldn't 

know a news story if it 

bit her on the posterior.

Tilda Swinton :

When you read about it this Time, 

and The Power they had….

the ways in which 

they ruled — certainly the 

public face of The Studios 

— and then you hear about 

what they were 

covering-up underneath : 

it was pretty wild. 

Thora :

We all know about 

The Womanising and 

The Drinking-jags and those 

trips to San Berdoo… 

Tilda Swinton 

But Dirt is good for them, 

you want The Dirt

because they want to have something to print —

Thessaly :

I'd like to know what 

The Hell is going on here

TWENTY-million readers 

want The Truth, Eddie.

Eddie Mannix :

Truth, yes — hmm.

Put Your Clothes on, Yord.

Yord AWKWARD Topless Scene Jedi Knight The Acolyte Episode 1

Party Games

Compromise Candidate | Yes, Minister : 

1984 Christmas Special | BBC Comed...

Bernard Woolley: [Discussing possible reasons for the Prime Minister's early retirement] Minister, I've heard something quite different.

James Hacker: What?

Bernard Woolley: That there is £1 million worth of diamonds from South Africa in a Downing Street safe, but of course it's only a rumour.

James Hacker: Is that true?

Bernard Woolley: Oh, yes.

James Hacker: So, there ARE all those diamonds in Downing Street!

Bernard Woolley: Are there?

James Hacker: You just said there were.

Bernard Woolley: No, I didn't.

James Hacker: Yes, you did! You said you'd heard this rumour, I said is it true, you said yes!

Bernard Woolley: I said yes, it was true that it was a rumour.

James Hacker: You said you heard it was true!

Bernard Woolley: No, I said it was true that I heard it!

Annie Hacker: I'm sorry to cut into this important discussion, but do you believe it?

James Hacker: I believe I heard it. Oh, about the diamonds. No.

Annie Hacker: Is it impossible?

James Hacker: No, but it's never been officially denied. First rule in politics: never believe anything until it's officially denied.