You are having breakfast while Carol has begun packing as you are heading home tomorrow. Then a wedding in Coldwater on Saturday (where you will take care of Owen). Home Sunday, while upon Kim, Paul and Owen’s return home Paul’s mother will stay for a week, then you will be up for a week, then his mother will be in Cleveland for three weeks. Then shortly after that, Florida for a Hammond-Orndorff family traditional Spring break in Summer, a tradition since 1975 when Carol’s father retired from the State Department to live in Sun City Center until her parents’ deaths in 1992. Henceforth, it has been carried on by three of the four Hammond sisters who live in the Eastern United States.
That pretty much summarizes the next two months, Amorella. Retirement always has something going on, and it is just as well.
Going on noon and you are waiting at the south lot of Target for Carol. Bank errand completed and a few more errands to go. Beautiful blue sky, reminds you of Elysium.
Writing is interesting in that I become where I am in the book, that is, I encompass the setting to the point I can ‘feel’ it, I can internalize it. I assume that is how I am able to comprehend the shaman, at least to imagine the shaman’s sense of things and non-things. Through the books I have lead lots of lives, maybe not to the point and intensity that the writer of Shakespeare lead many lives, or Plutarch, but I’ve lead segments of a few lives through these books.
Fiction, of course, but then you feel you are fiction too, so therefore you probably don’t see much difference.
That is a good observation, Amorella. I don’t see much difference, enough to keep me outside the fenced gates and not inside, but that is enough, no more or less than any other ‘legally normal-minded’ body.
You have returned from your errands and a small gelato from next to the Apple store as you are searching for a ‘camera adaptor’ for the iPad for Mother’s day. Take a break. – Amorella.
Supper at a new restaurant called the B Spot run by a chef named Michael Simon. Everyone enjoyed the meals. Home in time to watch Bones, now a discussion in the living room. Before supper you showered and found a note on the bed stand you forgot you wrote last night. The question scribbled is: What if the Supervisor once told Takis that he could have the world on a string, and Takis replied, “Thank you, but as you give the world to me, I give it back to you, it is your world, not mine.”
Those are not quite the words I meant to write at the time, but that is the way it came out on paper. I don’t remember. I even forgot I wrote the reminder. It is an extremely complicated moral problem if one is both polite and honest. One would think the Supervisor, for instance, would know the response of Takis beforehand, but Takis would have never considered such an offer before so he would have no idea how he would actually respond until the question was presented, and he responded.
One would think that if one were given a present by an honest Supervisor, that it was a serious question, and if Takis was not sure why he was given the present this could interfere with his judgment. Even if he (in this case – it could be a she just as easily) had no idea why the present was offered, what would he do? To be polite, one would accept a present if honestly given, but if one was honest, she or he would not accept it because it was no right in herorhis mind, that it would be dishonest to accept something honestly given. I am not expressing this thought clearly but somehow it seems like something that the shamans find themselves thrown into – a situation where it would be dishonest to accept something honestly given. Extremely impolite behavior when, in this case, I assume they would think Zeus was giving the present, but that isn’t right either as these people don’t really believe in Zeus and assume it is a higher god or in these conditions, assume it is the Supervisor. And, somehow this helps drive the rebellion into a situation where the humans and the alien marsupials both lose, that is you have a “fall of human and marsupial Dead” not the fall of angels like in the OT and PL. And, what could the Supervisor do with the rejection honestly given? Especially since Takis is using another gift ‘Free Will’ openly and honestly. Takis would not feel right accepting a world for one main reason, he does not want any power. He would be corrupted by it just as any other human being. That is Takis’ justification. This brings up another problem. As the Supervisor would know any human would be corrupted by it, why would it be offered in the first place? There would have to be a reason, but no doubt it would be beyond human reasoning. Let’s say from a human perspective it would seem that there would be a reason, but no one would know the Supervisors motivations. I don’t know how to use this complication. Accident and imagination do not sew and straight seam. Perhaps error and imagination, either way it is not a straight seam to develop a complication of the plot and the rebellion. Again, I’m done. No more thoughts, no more words. Once it began to roll I could not stop. Tomorrow perhaps I can make better sense of it.
Let it rest, orndorff. I will find a way to resurrect this concept. – Amorella.
It appears to me to fit into the concept of a hard problem of consciousness.
Yes. That will work, you like that approach better. – Amorella.
Thank you, Amorella. Sometimes it is so difficult to express one’s thoughts. Any path to help is fine with me. Takis has to ‘experience’ this concept not ‘feel’ it. Something like this.
Later, orndorff. Post and go to bed. – Amorella. 
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