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Philip Arundell - Phil The Fluter's Game of Life
Philip Arundell - Phil The Fluter's Game of Life
DEDICATION
This simple book is dedicated to the whole of Nature, where
we all came from, and where, with luck, we all will continue to
live and play our games.
PHILIP ARUNDELL
www.austinmacauley.com
First Published (2005) Authors OnLine
2nd Edition (2015)
Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd.
25 Canada Square
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5LQ
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am grateful to Dave King, David Windett, Richard Farish and
Charlie Fuge, who put the cartoons together as well as Linda
Elder who did the original editing.
I also thank Isabel Lim who was quite happy for me to goof off
from my office and have the freedom to play all my various
games.
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Here it is :
The gift of the seventh direction;
The old ones say that in the beginning there was only darkness
and spirits moving in the darkness. The great spirit looked out
over the nothingness and decided to make something.
So on the first day Wankan Tonka made the East.
On the second day he made the South and the third day he
made the West.
Next he made the North so now there was something.
The fifth day was used to make the heavens, the sun, the
moon and all the stars.
On the sixth day Wankan Tonka made the earth with all the
mountains and rivers, all of the seas and animals, flowers
and birds. All these things were the whole dream of Wankan
Tonka. Six directions East, South, West and North with sky
above and earth below and so it was and is.
The seventh day came and the great spirit made human
beings and he wanted to give the people a gift, a spirit made
out of all the six directions, a seventh direction. He knew that
he could not just give this gift to the people for they would not
appreciate or know its true value. So he decided to hide this
gift so that people must go and search for it.
Wankan Tonka called all the animal people to help him decide
where to hide this gift. First came the great buffalo -
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Give to me this gift, I will hide it far out on the plains and
there under a wallow I will bury this gift. Human beings will
never find it there, the buffalo said.
Wankan Tonka smiled sadly. No, this will not do, there will
come a time when all of the land has been turned over by iron
ploughs, they will find it there. So buffalo went away.
Next came the Bear. Give me this gift and I will go past the
plains all the way to the highest mountain and there deep in
a cave I will hide this gift, the people will never find it there.
Again Wankan Tonka smiled sadly. No, this will not do, one
day men will have a fever for a yellow metal and they will dig
through all the mountains looking for this metal and they wIll
find this gift. So too Bear went away.
Then came the Eagle. Give me this gift. I know where to hide
it. I will take it and fly past the plains and over the mountain.
I will fly all the way to the moon and hide this gift there. The
people will never find it.
Once more Wantan Tonka smiled sadly. No, it will not do, a
time will come when men will land another eagle on the moon
and leave their footprints there, they would find this gift.
So it went all day, animals coming with places to hide the gift
but each time there was a reason they would not work. Just
as the sun was setting there came a small animal. It had taken
him all day to get there. For it was a mole and moles must
travel under ground. Now some say that mole is blind but it is
not so. His eyes are just turned around so he sees inside. Mole
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PART ONE
THE GAME OF LIFE
CHAPTER FIVE
RULES OF THE GAME OF LIFE
CHAPTER ONE
A SIMPLE LOOK AT TIME
58
72
CHAPTER TWO
WHAT WE ARE
8
80
14
92
16
100
CHAPTER SIX
NEW RULES TO HELP NATURE
106
PROFITING = EXPLOITATION
CHAPTER SEVEN
HOW DO WE BEGIN TO HELP
NATURE
CHAPTER THREE
MANS NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER EIGHT
WE PRESS THE START BUTTON
30
34
40
CHAPTER FOUR
MOBILE VS IMMOBILE
ENVIRONMENT
48
116
126
PART TWO
SOME ESSAYS
RELATING TO HOW
WE LIVE
197
ADDENDUM TO INVISIBLE
WEALTH
201
203
134
142
144
VIOLENCE IN THE UK
151
TELEVISION
161
DEMOCRACY IS NOT
NECESSARILY A GOOD THING
BAGUIO CITY
211
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
213
168
RELIGION - GENERAL
177