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By Moji Agha (April 20, 2016--Tucson, AZ) Chomsky's NY Times Swooning "I swoon on the NY Times Op-Ed page, every eleven weeks or so," said Prof. Noam Chomsky, in the sufi monk's (actual) dream. Around noon of the day after the dream Ms. Bev S. Stohl replied to the goofy sufi's appeal for help, with the possible meaning of the dream--and stuff, and focused rather seriously on the number "11" in the dream. Citing Pythagoras, the Greek math-ilosopher Chomsky's "guardian angel" assistant said: [Ummm...in my sufi paraphrase] "Spiritual messages think like numbers." So "number 11" (a 1 that stutters) might be reducing your dream to "number 2," so as to avoid being repetitive. Could it be that she, repeating her own dreamy "guardian angels," might also mean to say that the "spiritual messages" hidden in the NY Times Op-Ed page are usually spread over "2" pages? Is that why Chomsky swoons there, repeatedly, every 11 weeks? Did Pythagoras swoon too? Is Noam Chomsky a spiritually angelic repeat of Pythagoras? (who according to totally unreliable sources, that often "report" in the NY Times, was the first person to own a "number" of vibrational properties in ancient Greece.) Shouldn't the NY Times be the one who faints from extreme emotion [swoons] every time Noam reminds them of the immorality of propagandistic "reporting?"

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