1437 hours. For the first time this week I feel
like we are on our regular schedule. We just had a late lunch at Smashburgers
and we are now in the far north end lot of Pine Hill Lakes Park. There is green
and colors on flowers and flowering trees as well as on weeds. Visually, Spring
has arrived.
You are beginning to anticipate more about
Dead 17 and how it may be possible, at least in the Merlyn books, to discover a
future path. - Amorella
I do not like to think on such things, Amorella, even for a fiction. It
does not seem 'right' to make such predictions, though always, for me, it is
the Soothsayer in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" that comes to mind
first, the Jeane Dixon's prediction on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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Julius Caesar
In modern times, the term Ides
of March is best known as the date on which Julius Caesar was killed in 44
B.C. Caesar was stabbed (23 times) to death in the Roman Senate by a group of
conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. The group
included 60 other co-conspirators according to Plutarch.
According to Plutarch, a seer had
foreseen that Caesar would be harmed not later than the Ides of March and on
his way to the Theatre of Pompey (where he would be assassinated), Caesar met
that seer and joked, "The ides of March have come", meaning to say
that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied "Ay,
Caesar; but not gone." This meeting is famously dramatized in William
Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar,
when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to "beware the Ides of
March."
From Wikipedia Offline - Ides of March
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Career as a psychic [Jeane Dixon]
Dixon reportedly predicted the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In the May 13, 1956, issue of Parade Magazine she wrote that the 1960
presidential election would be "dominated by labor and won by a
Democrat" who would then go on to " Be
assassinated or die in office though not necessarily in his first term."
She later admitted, “During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the
winner”, and at the time made unequivocal predictions that JFK would fail to
win the election. In the 1956 pronouncement, she merely stated that a President
would "be assassinated or die in office", not necessarily that one
would be assassinated. By emphasizing a few coincidentally correct predictions
and ignoring those that were wrong, she acquired both fame and notoriety. The
ability to persuade the public in this matter is known as the 'Jeane Dixon
effect'.
Dixon was the author of seven
books, including her autobiography, a horoscope book for dogs and an
astrological cookbook. She gained public awareness through the biographical
volume, A Gift of Prophecy: the Phenomenal Jeane Dixon, written by
syndicated columnist Ruth Montgomery. Published in 1965, the book sold more
than 3 million copies. Despite being married to a divorced man, and although
she claimed an ability to foretell the future by gazing into crystal balls, she
professed to be a devout Roman Catholic, and she attributed her prophetic
ability to God. Another million seller, My Life and Prophecies, was
credited "as told to Rene Noorbergen ", but Dixon was sued by Adele
Fletcher, who claimed that her rejected manuscript was rewritten and published
as that book. Fletcher was awarded five percent of the royalties by a jury.
President Richard Nixon followed her
predictions through his secretary, Rose Mary Woods, and met with her in the
Oval Office at least once, in 1971. In 1972, Dixon's prediction of terrorist
attacks in America in the wake of the Munich massacre spurred Nixon to set up a
cabinet committee on counterterrorism. She was also one of several astrologers
who gave advice to Nancy Reagan during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
From Wikipedia Offline
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1517
hours. It is interesting that Plutarch is the one who said a soothsayer had
forewarned Caesar, this same Plutarch who had been a priest at Delphi.
So, now you are interested? - Amorella
I never saw the connection before. I realize this is folklore thinking
but it seems that knowing the future beforehand is unnatural therefore evil.
And, the very thought conjures up witchcraft and putting people to the stake. Yet,
the laws of quantum physics say randomness rules the day in the unseen physical
world of atomic structures. Chaos theory says it is possible to predict
outcomes and randomness in itself does not exist. As an existentialist I don't
know what I think about soothsayers, and as a transcendentalist I am unsure if
being a soothsayer is reasonable.
Being a soothsayer and saying one is a
soothsayer are two different things, so to speak. - Amorella
I
am still unsettled in terms of Merlyn's remembrance of meeting Plutarch and
Pythia in Dead 17.
To utter a prediction (even in the story)
does not make one a soothsayer; only if the prediction comes true, does the
question come up as to whether it was a real prediction or circumstance (the
throw of the die). - Amorella
Are you insinuating that Merlyn was given a prediction when he first met
Plutarch and Pythia?
For our purposes, yes, he was. - Amorella
1540 hours. This returns me to the 12 April 13 posting when you last
wrote:
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"Lumpiness under a bushy top holds the dust to the
ground while the furrows follow free." - Amorella
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You
have a last minute stop at Kroger's on Tylersville for Paul Neumann’s marinara
sauce for Alta's turkey soup for supper.
1558 hours. I am feeling good about writing today, in the
groove.
That's how real predictions used to be made,
'in the groove' at Delphi. - Amorella
Strange, you seem to be more into this than I am,
Amorella.
That's because I know where this story is
going, boy. - Amorella
Now, that is a funny line. Of course you do, and I do not,
but I hope it continues to have an undertow of humor to it. (1602)
You are home. Carol is working on the turkey
soup. 'Lumpiness under a bushy top holds the dust to the ground while the
furrows follow free,' is indeed the line Merlyn remembers and Dead 17 will add
additional information relative to the prediction and why Merlyn remembers it
now, your present time. - Amorella
To add the darker humors - I 'envisioned the foretelling while crossing
a desert. I don't remember exactly how it was but I think I wrote it down. --
It was on the 14 April 13 posting that I wrote down the thought from the 'flash
in insight' I had had the day before:
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1348 hours. I woke up this morning
thinking about the wind created furrows between the hilly clumps of bushy
desert plants. This broad spread phenomenon gives whole area a clean but lumpy
appearance. I was thinking about the lumpiness and how it seems relative to
something in the books but it disappeared, perhaps because I could come up with
nothing, but it struck, at the time, as an 'obvious observation unthought'.
From: 14 April 13 posting
Desert Wind Erosion
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You had turkey soup for supper and a snack of jalapeño flavored chips
then you both watched DVRed "NCIS" and "NCIS LA". Carol is
currently viewing one of her earlier shows and while only dusk you are thinking
of going to bed early. You are also still unsettled on Dead 17 because of
implied implications concerning future events, even in a fiction no less. -
Amorella
2027 hours. Why does Merlyn want to connect this old forewarning prophecy
from Pythia to Merlyn to our present?
The reference is to the 'present' as seen in
Brothers 17. - Amorella
Oh. That makes more sense.
Relax, orndorff. Finish reading your May
"Discover" magazine. We'll work tomorrow. Post - Amorella
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