"I of my own knowledge…"

Saturday, April 30, 2011

7:45 AM. Ready when you are.

You can take a day off now and again, remember.

Yes, I remember. Maybe Sunday morning, or Monday. We’ll see. Before we begin the day’s tutelage, a question. I have two blogs, one devoted to this kind of exploration (IOMOK) and one for political or social or historical or economic concerns. I find that the context blog – that I devote little time or attention to – is out-pulling IOMOK by 2 to 1! Okay, maybe because I post Ventura’s columns there. Maybe because a lot more people are interested in social problems than in personal exploration. But – is there more? Oh, and I realize I’ve been neglecting IOMOK for a while, but after all there is a four-year archive there – nearly 900 posts on it.

900 posts and no way to know anything about what is in it. A 900-volume magazine library with neither index nor article descriptions.

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Friday, April 29, 2011

6 AM. All right. I’ve sort of lost track as to where we are, so I hope you kept your notes.

We’ll check the web and get back to you.

Tweet me.

You’d better make coffee.

Going to be that detailed, or complicated?

Maybe it just requires that you remember to settle in, and approach it in a collected fashion.

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

7 AM. There are so many compartments in our minds; one moves from one to the next and we can’t see through doors and so it is as if the other compartments have ceased to exist.

Okay –

Copy states of mind 1 through 4 when you transcribe this.

All right.

(1) he is an indivisible unit

(2) mixture of masculine and feminine psychological elements

(3) not a unitary mind, at all, but a community

(4) a ringmaster holding together multiple strands

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A message from the guys upstairs, who apparently are ready to stir the pot in a big way, depending upon how  receptive I am.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

8:30 AM. All right, let’s get to the topic. I have been working with two rough schemes that contradict each other, and you said yesterday you would give me a new one more appropriate to where I am now. Is this going to be another of those revolutions that set me farther and farther on a road away from where I’ve been?

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

It feels like I may be about to reestablish my routine, which would be nice. It’s 10 till 7 AM, I’m at my desk, which is roughly in shape for me to do some work, and I’m motivated. A little at sea as to where to proceed, though. I suppose I might continue conversations with Papa, but maybe there are more urgent things to be done. Guys?

Not dolls?

I don’t feel like channeling Jerome Kern, or whoever it was. What’s on your mind?

What is on your mind, rather? You are supposed to be the focus, after all. That’s what you’re doing in the physical.

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I don’t think I posted this here.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

7:30 AM. It is interesting that when I came to this each morning, expecting information, it came, and when I don’t, it doesn’t. There’s something to think about, there.

Oh, and I am reading Kerouac’s Desolation Angels, slowly, and I find Kerouac so without an idea of the reality. He had a feeling, he had impulses, but he didn’t have anything more than what he had read, and remnants of what he had been taught –

And it occurs to me (it’s always a shock to remember) I could talk to him. Do I have the energy? Maybe so.

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I am putting together a book of my conversations with Hemingway, with the intent of showing him from the inside. Regard these as merely imaginary conversations, if it makes you feel more comfortable with them. Whatever the source, the wisdom and the point of view they reveal repeatedly surprises me. As this, from a year ago.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

7:30 AM. I wake up, Papa, thinking about you and the Communists (having still been reading For Whom The Bell Tolls, of course). Is that what you want us to talk about next? If not, where would you like to go?

Do you really want an abstract disquisition about politics and government?

More, I’d like something on you and government.

You know my views. Government is a form of necessary protection racket. They have the ability to make you pay, and make you do things, and they use it as much as they dare. You have to have it, I’m not saying you don’t, because if you don’t have one protection racket, you’re going to have another one — but you don’t have to like it, and you certainly don’t have to see it as anything but what is. I mean, you don’t have to put a lot of hopes on it.

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This story, courtesy of the Weekly Science Report put together by Steve Detwiler, makes me laugh, it is so naïve. “To me at least, finding these great paintings from so far back in time is a bit like finding an iPad with no previous evidence of the development of electronics. How does humanity plunge so suddenly into this great sea of creativity? Unless there is a whole history of extremely old and not-very-good cave paintings still to be discovered, we are left with the sudden birth of a fully formed pictorial art.”

At least the writer is thinking, but his assumptions are so ridiculous. They are worth noticing only because he shares those assumptions with what is called “science” – which, in context, means “currently popular opinions among mainstream scientists,” which sounds, and is, a lot less authoritative!

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