07 February 2013

Notes - smatterings for GMG /


         Late morning. You are waiting at Brennan's doctor's Cleveland Clinic building just east of Beachwood Place Mall on the south side of Cedar. Paul is home unwell and in bed. Carol and Kim (who are better than yesterday) took Brennan in. Paul 'doctored' them up last night and their fluids appear replenished this morning. Yesterday you asked about rank orders as far as Elysium is concerned. In The Rebellion a few better-known gods and goddesses played a part and these aspects were posted earlier. In Great Merlyn's Ghost Merlyn shares his character with far fewer, mostly for the sake of economy and more focused storytelling (converting book one to two books in one, books one and book five. This conversion is from my perspective, as you consciously know very little about book five. - Amorella

         (1045) I woke up early this morning wondering if you were gone for good, Amorella. My brain works better, if it has an order to it and rank is part of that order. My mind is looser but first a grammatical order that stems from "Supervisor". The capital can be for emphasis and the added emphasis is the italicized 'the(e)' as the preceding adjective.

         You, Amorella, play the part of the Supervisor as well as Hades (only in the sense that the Dead believe the Supervisor is the brother of Zeus as he seems to have power almost equal or equal to his younger brother Zeus). Zeus also upholds the book's sense of 'Divine Justice'. You are a 'Betweener' as the Supervisor and the other 'Betweeners' are Athena [Warrior who blows the final trumpet of Judgment] who equals (in symbolic representation) the Angel Michael; Apollo [the sometimes misunderstood Prophet] equals the Angel Gabriel; and Artemis [the Balancer] who equals the Angel Raphael. That is how it was to be in The Rebellion. However, this to me appears too complicated as far as Merlyn the storyteller goes. Merlyn has to simplify all this rank and order, yet at the same time explain to the Living that there is indeed a rank and order at least as far as Merlyn sees it. I would like Merlyn to be as honest to a fact as he can be, knowing that he too, like Apollo, can be misunderstood or mistranslated (just as I, Richard, can be).

         No need to further explain as the more you say the more muddled this rank/order becomes. Basically this stems from your desire not to offend whatever the gods/goddesses are out there in your imagination or possibly in, again, your sense of G---D, the Creator of All Things and Beyond. (1114)

         1143 hours. We are at Target pharmacy and groceries. Carol and I are waiting in the car with Brennan. I appreciate the irony I find myself in. All these words on Betweeners and Angels which I capitalize out of respect even though my imagination works to the point I am not sure (in writing and thinking only) where 'reality' ends and 'Reality' begins. Honesty in this 'experimental' blog is extremely important in that it is all I have. The irony of course is that I am also an honest agnostic. There is nothing I can do about this.

         The above is not for me I, Amorella, understand this more completely than orndorff does. Orndorff is self-conscious because he knows that once in a while he has a reading human audience who might wonder why he continues blog and books, because this aspect is not nearly so pleasurable as the creation of dark lettered pixel words on a white sheet of paper-like pixels. His behavior is a necessity for survival in two environments at once, one physical and one spiritual. The specific point of conflict is in understanding what is spiritual and what is imaginary, that's the crux, thus the comfort with capital letters on Betweeners and Angels and the three dashes between the capital letters G and D.

         1211 hours. Hypocrisy comes to mind.

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hypocrisy

must politics be the perennial benchmark of hypocrisy? dissimulation, false virtue, cant, posturing, affectation, speciousness, empty talk, insincerity, falseness, deceit, dishonesty, mendacity, pretense, duplicity; sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, pietism, piousness; informal phoniness, fraud. ANTONYMS sincerity.

From: Oxford-American software

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         You are home. Does anything in the definition ring a bell? - Amorella

         No. None at all, surprisingly. (1241)

         Post. - Amorella

         What about the rank and order?

         Later, dude. I'd rather you think on why hypocrisy came to mind in the first place. - Amorella

         2022 hours. The boys are about ready for bed. Kim is going to work in the morning; Paul is staying unwell at home. I don't know why I consider myself a hypocrite when I have done nothing hypocritical at least relating to the blog and books. Otherwise, I'm human enough (joke).

         I'll let you know, as I have, when you are less than tolerable one way or another. Let's wait until the boys are upstairs before I continue. - Amorella

         I have been looking over a Wikipedia world cultural chart and it shows there are ten main languages with nine subsets and nineteen cultures. In the First Rebellion I have twelve cultures. (2034)

         As far as the Second Rebellion is concerned let's go with what you have from Wikipedia. Copy down both the modern languages and cultures from the map. List them and source. - Amorella

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Human Language Families

Afro-Asiatic
            Berber
            Chadic
            Cushtic
            Semitic
Altaic
            Japanese
            Korean
            Mongolian
            Tungusic
            Turkic
American Indian (several families)
Australian (several families)
Austro-Asiatic
Austronesian
Basque
Caucasian
Dravidian
Eskimo-Aleut

Languages

Indo-European
            Albanian
            Armenian
            Baltic
            Celtic
            Germanic
            Greek
            Indic
            Iranian
            Romance
            Slavic
Khoisan
Niger-Congo
Paleo-Siberian (several families)
Papuan (several families)
Sino-Tibetan
            Chinese
            Tibeto-Burman
Tai-Kadai
Uraic

From: wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_Map.PNG

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         2107 hours. Owen is still up watching a DVRed PBS "Dinosaur Train". I'm ready to go to bed; and this is after an afternoon nap.

         Kim is taking Owen to bed momentarily. Tomorrow you are up early to take Owen to daycare to save Kim some time. Time for bed. Post. - Amorella

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