<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n \u201cA theme in Tom Robbins first two books was \u2018joy in spite of everything.\u2019 His characters suffered, died, stared down tyrants and still opted for joy. And Robbins seemed to relish playing the jester, or more accurately, the trickster, \u2018a figure other cultures have used as a vehicle for mythology and mirth.\u2019 The role fit comfortably on a smart aleck who called his family \u2018a southern Baptist version of The Simpsons,\u2019 and once led the neo-Dada Shazam Society\u2019s \u2018happenings\u2019 with names such as, \u2019A low-calorie human sacrifice to the goddess Minnie Mouse.\u2019 (At that \u2018happening\u2019 Robbins encountered a dazed docent, the wife of a Seattle surgeon, muttering, \u2018Somebody put a fish down my blouse.\u2019)\u201d from “Mark Twain With An Illegal Smile” Bob Young, LEGACY WASHINGTON, Secretary of State of Washington https:\/\/www.sos.wa.gov\/_assets\/legacy\/tom-robbins-profile.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \t* * * * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n \t\u201cBut to say it\u2019s all meaningless. Isn\u2019t that a cop-out?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \t\u201cMaybe. But it seems to me that the real cop-out is to say that the universe has meaning but that we \u2018mere mortals\u2019 are incapable of ever knowing that meaning. Mystery is a part of nature\u2019s style, that\u2019s all. It\u2019s the Infinite Goof. It\u2019s meaning that is of no meaning. That paradox is the key to the meaning of meaning. To look for meaning – or the lack of it – in things is a game played by beings of limited consciousness. Behind everything in life is a process that is beyond meaning. Not beyond understanding, mind you, but beyond meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \tfrom Another Roadside Attraction <\/em>– Tom Robbins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I believe our founder, Niels, would have loved comparing BuVu to Dada. I think the similarities are startling. \u201cDadaism is an artistic movement in modern art that started around World War I. . . . . The name itself is a reflection that the art was designed to seem meaningful when it is in fact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/YouAreHere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/YouAreHere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/YouAreHere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/YouAreHere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/YouAreHere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/YouAreHere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"http:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/YouAreHere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/YouAreHere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/YouAreHere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/YouAreHere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/YouAreHere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-01-at-8.42.38-AM.png\")
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