Lunch with long retired Mason High teachers. Other than that, awaiting the coming showers which are surely needed.
I am trying to rediscover what the rest of this chapter six is supposed to be about. I think it is commonality of all the Dead, beyond culture and the use of quantum jumping. I can’t remember the term. Too many words. I can’t remember and I don’t want to reread everything but I may have to do so here. – I’m tired. Maybe I just need to take a nap.
A cool and rainy mid-afternoon. Carol is at a movie (Morning Glory) with friends, you spent time with friends at lunch then watched last night’s ‘The Event’. Still no nap. Take one already. – Amorella.
Later, Carol is home making chili for supper and rather than nap you watched the last two episodes of ‘Outsourced’ on your MacBook partly, aside of the humor, you find you are attracted to two of the Indian women on the show.
That doesn’t relate to any of the book, Amorella.
It might.
I forgot what scene twelve was about – Agathia and Aeneas in a somewhat pleasurable circumstance. Thank goodness the Karma Sutra is not so ancient a manuscript to be dwelling on in book four. Short pause. Curiosity got the better of me and it turns out the text, or portions of it may be older than I thought. Below, from Wikipedia:
The earliest text of the Kama Shastra tradition, said to have contained a vast amount of information, is attributed to Nandi the sacred bull, Shiva’s doorkeeper, who was moved to sacred utterance by overhearing the lovemaking of the god Shiva and his wife Parvati. During the 8th century BC, Shvetaketu, son of Uddalaka, produced a summary of Nandi's work, but this "summary" was still too vast to be accessible. . . . Between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC, several authors reproduced different parts of the Babhravya group's work in various specialist treatises. . . .
. . . Yashodhara, in his commentary on the Kama Sutra, attributes the origin of erotic science to Mallanaga, the "prophet of the Asuras”, implying that the Kama Sutra originated in prehistoric times. . . . Vātsyāyana's birth date is not accurately known, but he must have lived earlier than the 7th century since he is referred to by Subandhu in his poem Vāsavadattā.
Wikipedia
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No doubt about it, orndorff, human beings are sexual creatures.
Undoubtedly so. Where are we going with this?
Scene thirteen, boy – do you have a problem with that?
No. Glad to be moving on. Who are the characters?
First, Salamon and Sophia, then they are interrupted by Mario. We’ll tackle this tomorrow.
Here is what I have for Sophia basics:
Sophia prides herself among the Dead as looking most like Mother, the original mother of all humans who are Living as well as in the Place of the Dead. Mother is as the North Star. Without her none would be in this Place to begin with.
Motherhood is a spiritual quality and an essential in winning this battle with the Supervisor who has continued to deny them the right to see their many steps of grandchildren and to tell them how it is to be Dead even if they, the Dead, don’t know why they continue to exist as consciousness with three dimensions of believable bodies even though the Dead ‘know’ they no longer have them.
She thinks that even Zeus may not be responsible for their situation, and if nothing else, the Insurrection will provoke a reaction that will allow her and the others to know more about why they are in this Place, and why the Living must go through life as they do.
I have these Salamon basics:
Salamon is concerned for his personal honor as well as his responsibility as a drafted leader of the Dead. He has a bitter relationship with the woman in charge of his command. He does trust her outwardly, but his gut tells him she is using him to make herself look better among the Dead. He does not like the fact that she is more analytical than he is. He wonders who is behind the Supervisor, who is pulling his strings. He has no imagination like the women as to what the Supervisor is, Salamon assumes the Supervisor is Hades who works directly with Zeus. He just does not understand the motivation for the seeming deception between the two.
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Reading over this, I don’t see the two being sexually compatible. I don’t remember if they have bedded in the book so far.
You spent some time skimming the dialogue of the first five chapters to remind yourself as to what Salaman has been up to.
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Late night, about the same time the boys are at the Mikroikia, three spirited bodies are lying in the same bed, Salaman is in the middle, Sophia on his left and Kassandra on his right. The privacy place is Sophia’s. None has a stitch on and no one seems to care as a blanket and the darkness except for the starlight covers them. . . .
One by one there was a longer pause between questions. Most of them too heavy to answer. They held hands longer and snuggled closer. Both women ended up wrapped over the right or left leg of Salaman. Eventually they were so close, so intimate, that all they could do was close into a tight but comfortable group hug. They felt the shared warmth of bodies they did not have. It was a natural human warmth. Soon, each fell into a deep sleep and the three turned into a single piece of stone. No one realized this, of course, as it was a very rare event. If they were propped upright like three human beings solidified into a tree trunk they would have appeared a classically sculpted work of art. (c.4,sc.10)
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You have enough reminder here. As we are at chapter six, scene thirteen not much relative time has gone by. Tomorrow you have promised yourself to clean up the basement then to get back to the basics of walking on the machine and body building as you have that equipment also. Tonight you stumbled getting up from a chair; too much sedentary behavior for an older fellow like you. Time to balance up a bit, orndorff, as you made the promise to yourself deeper down than you suspect. Later, dude. Post. – Amorella.
Note: Make sure Salamon has a consistent spelling OR Salaman.
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