Up after the sun. Carol did the chores. You had breakfast with the paper. > Union Centre Smokey Bones for lunch with ten dollar off coupon. Carol and Kim are at the Carter’s at the VOA shopping plaza on Tylersville.
I just want to work on this scene. I hope it meets my expectations. The Supervisor is the most interesting to me because I always seem to learn something I did not know, that is, gain a perspective I did not have. Rather selfish outlook, but it is true as far as I know. I do not think this in lieu of other parts of the story. It wouldn’t work without all the parts. I have always been intrigued with the concept of ‘alien’ thought, that is non-human thinking and feeling (intuition).
You are home. Carol, Kim and Owen went to the park for a walk after Owen was fed. You are looking for some sort of guide to help you through this scene. Already you see a connection to Chaos Theory but you are not sure if the connection is valid. First, let’s go back to the outline on Chaos Theory and logical fallacies and begin there.
Okay, I have tweaked the first paragraph of scene eleven, and I want to make sure this is written correctly. Here it is:
“The Supervisor rarely uses more energy than needed at any given moment. SheanHe is nearly the ultimate conscious creation in efficient thought and in resolving the said thought into processing the earliest appropriate probable response possible given HeranHis widely enhanced parameters, the semi-encased tree filament of thought and light.”
It will do for the moment. – Amorella.
I realize this is fiction, but even in imagination the ratio of The Supervisor’s consciousness to my own is beyond any acceptable limits.
Do you mean rational limits?
I cannot imagine the number of ‘zeroes’ needed in the difference.
In here consciousness is not measured by size or distance.
The only way I understand consciousness is that either you have it or you do not, though I suppose one can be semi-conscious. Beyond this I am at a loss.
Of consciousness?
Very funny, Amorella.
Weight of consciousness is not a factor either.
Yes. Okay. I can accept that, but what about a weight on consciousness?
That’s where we are here, is it not?
This whole concept is beyond the arrogance it would take to conjure up the very idea as far as I am concerned.
You like the idea of going beyond what is humanly acceptable, this is about it as far as I can see. – Amorella.
If it can stay encased in Reason I can handle it.
Of course you can.
I like to be within the framework of the characters and setting of the books. It is fun and exciting, a game and adventure. I can imagine being at a distance (as it is relative anyway) and seeing this lantern like object in the distance, like a light on a private home lamp post, with a lit seventy-five watt bulb in it at about thirty to forty yards away. The problem is then thinking of the Supervisor. I conjure up an anthropomorphically angelic-like image because I lack the imagination to conjure up anything else.
Here is the problem (and I am feeling like I am in a William Blake vision here), when I attempt to imagine such a scene I can no longer see the lantern-like object and the tree filament of thought and light. I don’t see anything. This is very strange. It is like I have reached the limit of what I can imagine with the tree of thought and light and the lantern-like shape around it except with no top or bottom.
Post this and take a break. – Amorella.
Half a ham and cheese for supper, and as the MacBook was warming up the word ‘audacity’ popped into your mind.
Audacity is worse than arrogance. I have had this problem with these books more than once. Who am I to write about Merlyn? Who am I to write about a history of a human family from fourteen thousand years ago? Who am I to write about alien marsupials from the other side of the galaxy? Who am I to write about the Dead? And, now, Who am I to write about The Supervisor?
Words just keep coming out of my head. I am no one to write about any of these things. I was a C student in high school and a C student in college. I climbed to a B student in graduate school, but even there I was admitted ‘conditionally’. The only thing that saved me was doing better than average on the Miller Analogy Test and a good recommendation from Dr. John Coulter at Otterbein. I took every English course Otterbein had to offer (except Victorian literature) and made up two courses besides; all that was to raise my average to a 2.3 which I needed for graduation. My parents wanted me to drop out of high school and go to trade school where I might learn enough to get a job.
It took me seven years to get through college, that is, to graduate. When I did my student teaching at a little school north of Westerville, Olentangy High School I got a C in the course without a recommendation that I should continue in teaching because I could not spell words correctly and I remember spelling ‘grammar’ ‘grammer’ on the board the first day I wrote on it for class. Fortunately, a small junior high need a teacher of English as the one teacher was moving away as her husband got a job transfer. They took me.
A relative, who was head of the athletic department at a city school, got me my second job at his high school. The third was because I was a male willing to teach senior British literature and honor Freshmen English overseas at the last minute. I dropped a doctorate program figuring I could always do that but the job opportunity overseas might be the only one for a lifetime. I got the next teaching job in the States because the superintendant was raised by missionaries in China ,and he wanted a more internationally oriented male teacher of senior British and sophomore literature. I was interviewed, taken out to lunch, re-interviewed after lunch, offered the job, and I took it on the spot. I had no other leads. Wife Carol got an elementary job at a nearby school the very next week. We have been in the Cincinnati area ever since.
The last teaching job was because it was summer and the teacher up and quit. They needed someone quickly, it was in the town where we live, so I took it figuring daughter, who was starting school, would have one of us on her public school schedule through her graduation. I stayed on the added years because the retirement pay was better, and besides, I still enjoyed the classroom experience very much. Nothing in any of this serendipitous experience is about Merlyn, marsupial aliens, the Dead or the Supervisor.
Post, and come back to this after one of your favorites, Human Target. – Amorella. Let’s add one more paragraph and call it a night. Look up definitions of thought and light and we will work from those.
“Thought and thinking are mental forms and processes, respectively ("thought" is both). Thinking allows beings to model the world and to represent it according to their objectives, plans, ends and desires. Words referring to similar concepts and processes include cognition, sentience, consciousness, ideas, and imagination.” – Wikipedia
And,
“Light is a type of energy; a non-matter and is unable to be physically touched, however matter can and has been created by slamming light into light at very high energies, using a particle collider. Anything with a temperature above absolute zero emits (gives off) light. Light is also called "electromagnetic radiation". Light is made up of tiny particles called photons. . . .which exist in tiny "packets . . . [which] exhibit properties of both waves and particles. This property is referred to as the wave-particle duality.” – Wikipedia sourced.
The above will do for the purposes of the book.
I have trouble assimilating this material in terms of how it will be used in context, particularly in this scene eleven. > However, this is the present first draft of the first and second paragraphs:
Scene 11
The Supervisor rarely uses more energy than needed at any given moment. SheanHe is nearly the ultimate conscious creation in efficient thought and in resolving the said thought into processing the earliest appropriate probable response possible given HeranHis widely enhanced parameters which is the semi-encased tree filament of thought and light.
Light is as a thought without a thinker therefore thought is first. Thought includes the processes of cognition, sentience, consciousness, ideas and imagination according to Wikipedia, also according to Wikipedia light is a type of energy that is non-matter which exhibits the properties of both waves and particles.
To be continued.
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