11 November 2012

Notes - faster-than-light to Keats


         You remember the Dead most everyday, boy, no tributes need go here. Dusk, and you are waiting for Carol at Kroger's Tylersville. You both had a busy day, plus the last half of it was working in the yard once again as trash out tomorrow and leaf pickup on Tuesday. You are watching a huge flock of birds, a cloud of dark birds flying over. Omens, you think because superstition follows you like a shadow. - Amorella

         I decided to look the word up. I don't know that I ever have. Here's what the Oxford-American software has to say:

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superstition  noun

excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings: he dismissed the ghost stories as mere superstition
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a widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of an action or event, or a practice based on such a belief: she touched her locket for luck, a superstition she had had since childhood.

ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin superstitio(n-), from super- ‘over’ + stare ‘to stand’ (perhaps from the notion of “standing over” something in awe).

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         The definition is not so bad. Personally, in context, I like the origin point: "standing over something in awe", however, the 'standing over' does not sound too presentable.

         You are having your usual troubles with definition as humility is more than a token presentation when you 'sense' something and are awe struck through the 'sense'. - Amorella

         I can never express myself so clearly yet you pretty much hit the thought on it's head.

         Thoughts are not nails, boy; do you see the implications? - Amorella

         I feel I do but I do not have the adequate polite words to express them.

         You are as Ahab sighting the great white whale. - Amorella

         A bit dramatic, Amorella, but a hint of that simile is correct. I have all this commotion (in my head) over a definition. Unbelievable.

         Much later. You are thinking of going to bed although it is not yet 2100 hours. - Amorella  
      
         We were busy working in the yard. The leaves still aren't off a couple of trees and they are picking them up Tuesday. Tomorrow it is supposed to rain. I'm tired.

         You and Carol were watching the second episode of 666 - The Drake Hotel story and you stopped it after becoming bored after the birds in the wall flew out and seeing Carol asleep. She even fell asleep as you watched an early new episode of "Revenge" so you turned it off. - Amorella

         I did. Neither of us liked the twilight zone style show about the haunted hotel and revenge is becoming boring too. It reminds me of the second or third year of "Desperate Housewives" -- too gimmicky and too predictable at the same time. The plot revolves around like it is in a washing machine.

         I remember the old story of Einstein in 'junior high school' and wondering was it was like to ride on the front of a light beam and yet here I am trying to imagine how it would be being moved along like a mail container in a vacuum tube. That doesn't do this justice. Ship is still (surrounded by a photon bubble) while 'faster than light' carries it along. Where is the 'jadegos' faster than light stuff coming from and where is it going?'

         JDGspace is empty to full and full to empty. It is a pulsed faster than light from the beat of a different drummer. Rhythm. Nothing is between its regular pulse. - Amorella

         I am thinking . . . like the heartbeat of fasterthanlight.

         No. It is light shaken not stirred. - Amorella

         What is doing the shaking?

         Dimensionally, nothing. - Amorella

         A couple of lines from Keats immediately pop into mind:

         "Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all
         Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

         Close enough intuition-wise. We will work with this and then see what Doug thinks of it. All for now. Post. - Amorella

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