You have been sitting at the McD's at Exit 65 on I-71 about half way between Cincinnati and Columbus. Mary Lou and Carol are shopping while you have been working on Dead-1 and spending time gathering a variety of images of billiard balls and tables, ball pocket racks and cue sticks from Wikipedia and elsewhere. Here is Merlyn's table.
I need to have a clearer demonstration of a particular set of balls and table to represent the movement through Merlyn's mind. Two random pockets are for the heart and soul. Merlyn never knows what is going to strike home. I remember Jerry B's dad's table had the ball return system to a ball return box located near the bottom end of the table near the cue mark. It was a Brunswick table with inlaid shield leather pockets. I found a couple good images of the model mind table for Merlyn. I wonder if I should correlate this with Diplomat's model mind in book three.
No need boy that will not be included.
What about her proofs that the Soki is a small atom-like alien intelligence?
It's been done, boy. Your scene settings will be used however. - Amorella
This is a surprise.
Your grandsons will probably never read the original but this series is for their generation not yours. - Amorella
1419 hours. This will be interesting.
1856 hours. Panera/Chipotle for supper and then a stop at Kroger's before home to watch tonight's DVRed national news.
I have an idea that may help clarifying the pool table analogy. Use the automatic pocket return as a gathering place, the unconscious, if you will. The green stick will be the conscious mind and the yellow stick the unconscious. The balls come out on the cue ball's diamond marker. A happy thought gives way to a sad one or the other way around. Sometimes several balls come up from the unconscious at once. The cue ball is sometimes reasoned and sometimes seemingly random, though in Merlyn's case this is not always so. Your first hand experience with concept is how you react to me depending on circumstance. The table felt is one of three of the primary colors, red, yellow or blue. The colors represent the 'flavors' of the mind, sweet, sour or neutral. The colors of the rainbow will be run though from time to time when one of the characters makes an existential decision. No ghosts, no haunting in this, besides who would haunt Merlyn? Spiritual emissaries move about, one in particular, Rhodarex. Sheandhe sets the angles of the cue. What do you think? - Amorella
Sounds interesting but far too complicated. Keep it simple, Amorella.
You first thought, 'Keep it simple, Merlyn." - Amorella
1919 hours. I did. No ghosts for me, not Merlyn. I am beyond being spooked by anything.
Good. Post when you are home. - Amorella
2039 hours. We watched the news, NBC and most of ABC. I am tired. I get the message, Amorella. I spent an hour working on images of balls on the pool tabs. Solids and stripes, thinking, what can I do with these? I have too much 'stuff' in my head and want to 'make use' of it all. Too many words. I need to stay old Presbyterian, plain and simple Wyler's Our Town style. I don't know what else to do.
Let's continue as we began. A little billiards can go a way. Merlyn 'knows' what's important in book four. You have a sense of the Rebellion by living it for more than a year. Re-read the first two Dead chapter sections, see if there is a way to bring in a character to represent the Rebellion, one who knows how it was first hand, Sophia, Gloama's bodily 'twin'. Merlyn and Sophia can have a quick talk, a spark of how it was and when. The purpose and the result. Post. - Amorella
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