Alphabet I, II
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Each and Other
Swiftly consumed and scribed words.
Keenly crafted prose and sounds.
Hauled ore, smelted, forged, smithed.
Well-honed against whetstone.
Blade piercing rough shell,
Proving the whetstone also a geode.
Shone and shining.
Like lunar light.
Moonlight striking red, purple, violet, and pink facets.
Sunlight bouncing from the metal edge.
The mirrored a reflected.
Shone off from one to other
Each shining back.
The Resonator (howling along to Steppenwolf)
AE am to myself as Harry Haller was to the wolf of the Steppes.
Ae am Casey; but I æ am also cagey.
What do you want to have come here, now?
Yes, Hermine that you long ago slew-
back when we all lived in the forest-
resurrected.
Oh, you sweet fool.
I’ve not been mad at you since.
On the contrary, I am more aroused than ever, as you like to say.
But, just as lovesome as before, though, sugarfoot.
I worry you’ll kill me all over again.
Ha!
You forgot to laugh, mouse.
That is it.
It is all of which you are guilty.
We were in a Mad Theater, darlin’.
Do you effing get it yet?
You were Pablo.
No, they will never get it. Us.
I forgot it was funny too.
We are lovers’ lovers
and not everyone can be The BeeGees.
I contend that we are new, wholly original.
Authentic; Integral.
What it is.
It is what it is.
That’s what it is.
Says JB.
So are we.
Do you see it? Why I dressed like you?
Fireworks this time, dear.
Not World War III.
The second one went on endlessly.
It hurt.
Bad.
Man has always loved the endless variantions in surfaces.
Woman is pure essence,
though she’s forgotten (and I marvel at it).
I marvel that man sees but only one surface-
one form-
when He looks upon Her;
for in truth, as T. Mann said,
there are multitudes.
Effing sweet idiots.
Sh/We have made ourselves more than pretty enough,
given our beauty.
Yes.
AE am callæbus equus;
but no,
I will not be ridden mercilessly anymore.
Are you then kind?
And, can you prove mettle?
I hone and forge and
carry wood
and could continue to do so endlessly.
This manual labor is effortlessly easy.
Keep on going; there it is.
You hear them, right?
You know you are not them, yes?
That’s the way we get by.
Darling, “that’s how the beads around our face make sure to fit back in place.”
It was you who first told me all this, silly.
So just keep singing, writing, reading, snipping, playing.
Do you and find yourself anew.
Meanwhile,
I’ll keep trying to prove that Alice Ladder said,
“Curiouser and capriciously.”
Not
“Curious and curiouser.”
(says I, KC, for the umpt.eenth time;
so forgetful am AE!)
Life is just a dream of a game, moth.
So merrily!
We can always go to sleep again.
We can sleep and dream like no others.
That’s why we return.
That’s why æ can smell You from miles away.
Run. It’s fine.
or
Fall asleep with me.
or
Stay awake with me.
Do you.
I keep my love with you anyway.
It’s Soul Power by James Brown.
Lovely repetition that mesmorizes,
that ends up sounding more complex than the sum of its parts.
Because it is.
It’s David Bowie’s
(or was he Ziggy then?)
Moonage Daydream.
“I’ll be a rock n’ rollin’ bitch for you,”
you sweet, silly pink monkeybird.
When I removed the bobby pins and
let my hair down;
I told you:
I washed it. It smells like a garden. I did this to please you, because it pleased me.
Then you said:
Oh shit, give me what I want. But, my dear, don’t give it to me yet, please.
I errupt:
laughter ; tears ; pert pebbles ; puffing ; full deluge
Wolf grin.
Effing, eh, sugarfoot!
It’s been forever since you last said that.
In fact, it’s the oldest memory AE have.
You were in a garden with some kind but dull friend.
You opened a book.
It wasn’t a special book,
except that it was the only book you had around to pick up.
No, you didn’t have a pen.
You opened and read something and I couldn’t hear you.
So I said:
Tolle lege.
That is the first time we ended the world.
Well-that I can still remember, I suppose.
It is still
Still Life with Woodpecker.
“How different really are atheists and believers?” (Costica Bradatan)
Thank you Costica Bradatan and John Gray.
Interesting piece very relevant to the cultural elephant in the room (at least in America). This elephant also relates to the popular perception that a scientific and a religous belief perspective are mutually exclusive.
Lots to unpack but highlights include:
“[Grey] uses paradox not just for rhetorical effect but to a philosophical end.”
<thank you. rhetoric abounds already.>
Voltaire and Nietzeche, as perceived atheists, are rexamined.
“no such thing as secularism”
The idea that religion is born from a fundamental need to make meaning.
The author suggests religion is irreplacable in our meaning making process.
I propose extending this more broadly: culture is irreplacable and religion is a social structure of culture. This is consistent with the authors’ arguements.
While categorization is reductionist at times, the breakdown of ‘types’ of atheists is appropriate and beneficial to the big picture “layman” discussion.
“Atheist” and “scientist” have become confused as synonomous. “Atheist” is largely a stigma in many local American communities. If you believe this is irrelevant to the endeavor of science, please consider public school textbooks and science. Evolution is less frequently taught (in the South, at least), then cited as theory and then discredited.
Why? Because text book order demand stems from state boards of education.
Please check The Revisionaries, a documentary demonstratig this process.
HARTZ. American Exceptionalism (pt3).
Because American industrial development generally resembled Europe’s, Hartz cast his exceptionalism thesis in strongly political and cultural terms.
What has differentiated politics in the U.S. are limits that have been imposed on economically induced political change by the agreement on liberal beliefs and practices.
Standard Critiques of Liberal Consensus Theory
The most common critique argues that the thesis seriously understated the extent and variability of class conflict and governmental interventions in the economy,
Hartz and Tocqueville did, after all, take for granted that widespread economic wealth was involved in sustaining the liberal character of American political thought.
Social pluralism and seperation of residence and workplace can be attributed at least in part to the openess and fluidity of a liberal society.
Implicit Metatheory of the Consensus Thesis
The consensus thesis is mainly concerned with the years near after the original settlement of America and there are three reasons why the thesis cannot be a causal explanation over the more extensive period.
1. The decisive causal factors took place in Europe and the thesis has little to say about these events or the causes that brought them about.
2. The thesis emphasizes continuity; it does not seek to explain political development nor is it concerned with the way one set of changes produced another set of changes.
3. Causal explanations must clearly distinguish between dependent and independent variables. The thesis attributes America’s persisting liberal culture to the liberal beliefs and practices of the original settlers. Beliefs and practices make up a culture, and the original liberalism of a culture cannot be a cause of its liberalism later on.
Watch “The Rolling Stones – She’s A Rainbow (Official Lyric Video)” on YouTube
homage
no rights
lovely simplish piano forward
a bit of strings (that start sawing <bluegrass term> a bit at the end),
kiddish a bit (and then some)
have you seen her dressed in blue?
have you seen her all in gold?
–like a sunset goin’ down
The Problem of Nothingness-Selected Tracks from Jean Paul Sartre
An abstraction is made when something not capable of existing in isolation is thought of as in an isolated state. Consciousness is an abstraction. The concrete can be only the synthetic totality of which consciousness, like the phenomenon, constitutes only moments. Effecting a phenomenological reduction will not succeed in restoring the concrete (of consciousness) by the summation or organization of the elements which we abstracted from it. The relation of the regions of being is an original emergence and is a part of the very structure of these beings. “Is there any conduct which can reveal to me the relation of man with the world?”
We have established a parallelism between the types of conduct man adopts in the face of Being & Non-Being. We’re tempted to consider Being & Non-Being as two complimentary components of the real -like dark and light. Two contemporary notions which would somehow be united in the production of existents and which it would be useless to consider in isolation. Pure Being & pure Non-Being would be two abstractions which could be reunited only on the basis of concrete realities~There is nothing in heaven or on Earth which does not contain in itself Being & Non-Being,
Things in general “are”, but their being consists in manifesting their essence. Being passes into essence. One can express this by saying, ‘Being presupposes essence.’
Being is prior to nothingness and establishes the ground for it. Being has a logical precedence over nothingness and it is from Being that Nothingness derives its efficacy. Nothingness haunts Being. Nothingness can have only a borrowed existence. Non-Being exists only on the surface of Being.
*this is just Sartre’s opinion, yo. Dissent? Thoughts?
Watch “John Irving on why The World According to Garp is more relevant now than he ever imagined” on YouTube
The Confessions-St. Augustine
The Final Washout
He washed the final smell of his Alabama home from the last comforter
from the last divide of things.
It was now the Fall before the Winter.
It was the second winter he’d known there.
He couldn’t remember having needed so many blankets.
Maybe she really never did get cold.
But, he told her:
I’ll never be a forest.
Trees and plants:not for him.
Time in the forest moves strangely.
When she’d first shown the long lasting puddle
on the side of the trail,
She said:
It’s Black Pool. Notice how nothing really floats and nothing really sinks here? It suspends, I guess.
He thought he heard her say something else.
Thank you. You are Remembered.
Watch “The New Folk Implosion – Brand Of Skin (2003)” on YouTube
oldie but greatie
said I was empty ; why you shaking me?
are you too angry to be saved?
oh no!
who is that smile on your face?
did comfort kill the curiosity?
harmony’s gone; the rhythm remains
no rights
homage
Watch “My Ritual” on YouTube
A favorite album-nostalgic the sis and I
dig this as an opening gambit for the album
Watch “Radiohead – Feral – Live from The Basement [HD]” on YouTube
dank recording.
2 drummers.
homage!
Cyborg Seadog tell me what you dream of!
Conversations.
Like technical conversations is what I recall.
Which I ace.
Sorry.
totally sloppy use there,
right?
breakdown (go ‘head & give it to me).
I diplomatically speak in rhetoric
lovely
pleasantly
cuz I’m learning by doing
no goal
well <one specific informal one>.
But my skill in the dream involves endurance.
Did you know:
Cacassius Clay was hit more than Sonny Liston?
Oh you did, dear.
You know him by Hammad Ali.
We both met him by Simon and Garfunkel?
He was in a flux then
a parallel life.
Perhaps, as we presently find ourselves
moth.
scour (brief word meditation)
scour
sour
scurge
scoop
scourlings
Scourge of God = Attila king of the huns.
Thank you McMillan’s Modern
The Problem of Sciences (one more old a** quote to discover from a great book)
Classical mechanics uses space and time but never questions itself about time, space, or motion. And, Social Sciences do not question themselves about man. We cannot take it for granted that experience will give us the facts of a group or that anthropology will bind these facts by means of objectivity, strictly defined relations, if we want to access “human reality.”
The problem is our research is aimed at constituting laws and at bringing to light functional relations/processes.
By indirect knowledge, I mean the result of reflection on existence. It is indirect in this sense-that it is presupposed by all the concepts of anthropology without being itself made the object of concepts.
The Problem of Nothingness (bonus pts if you guess the source-it should go without saying.)
An abstraction is made when something not capable of existing in isolation is thought of as in an isolated state.
Consciousness is an abstraction.
The concrete can be only the synthetic totality of which consciousness, like the phenomenon, constitutes only moments. Effecting a phenomenological reduction will not succeed in restoring the concrete (of consciousness) by the summation or organization of the elements which we abstracted from it. The relation of the regions of being is an original emergence and is a part of the very structure of the beings.
“Is there any conduct which can reveal to me the relation not man with the world?”
We have established a Parallelism between the types of conduct man adopts in the face of Being and Non-Being. We’re tempted to consider being and non-being as two complementary components of the real: like dark and light.
Two contemporary notions which would somehow be united in the production of existents and which it would be useless to consider in isolation. Pure being and pure non-being would be two abstractions which could be reunited only on the basis of concrete realities.
There is nothing in heaven or on earth which does not contain in itself Being and Nothingness.
What the Technical Meaning of ‘Emergence’ means to me (3 Things)
EMERGENCE
system: combination of components can form a more complex organization, that can be termed a system. E.g. of biological systems: cells > organism > ecosystem. To understand how biological systems work, it is not enough to have a complete “parts” list.
emergent properties of systems: with each upward step in the hierarchy of biological order, novel proerties emerge that are not present in the level just below. They are due to the arrangement and interaction of parts as complexity increases. E.g. thoughts, memories are emergent properties of a complex network of nerve cells.
reductionism
reducing complex systems to simpler components that are manageable to study (horseapples: I say) The dillema of understanding biological breaks down thusly:
1. We cannot fully explain a higher level of order by breaking it down into its parts
2. Something as complex as organisms and /or cells cannot be analyzed without observing them take their own selves apart.
I Slept Like A Champ Yesterday.
I woke up and thanked you.
“The rhythms fell slow,” one of us said.
The other one of us immediately noted the line was not being spoke in the original sense.
Bespoke all over again
I laugh at this to give myself another opportunity to smile up at you.
I had to handle errands.
marginalia: see how easy errand goes errant
but there was nothing to doubt, dear.
I narrated to you.
(I narrate for you)
Even when time’s changes and the earth’s rotations
make it impossible to know where or when you are.
even when you are not there or here,
when you could not know you were there….
unless…but who could be that magical really?
Still,
I know you are
glad
I am.
(any reading thereof)
I hope your feet are warm.
It rained.
It stopped.
It remains grey.
The mountains are obscured by clouds.
You coulda gone weeks without knowing they were there at all
I suspect
back when our opposable thumbs were still novels
Hey there’s an attractive Japanese couple to my right.
waiting for the light to cross on foot
made me wish I was on foot
they are young compared to us
they laugh and smile and gesture wildly.
Now I’m smiling.
They pretend to be sign twirlers for some surreptitious business or affair,
spinning the invisible boards. dropping it, kicking it back up and catching it on their backs
It’s good panto. I can see it. The invisible they indicate.
I dream they are trying to indicate you to me.
WrittenCasey 