You
have been thinking about your sister, Cathy, and her birthday. Carol said it
was the second but you associate it with today. Also, you have had a concept
develop whereas Ship, or rather his machinery, was adapted long go to reason
through 'formulas' relating specifically to politics and religion. The
machinery shows what your inner objectives are by hints given in speech and or
text. - Amorella
In some ways I see this as an
equivalent of how you help me, Amorella, to see myself more clearly. Intentions
are not always what they seem and politics and religion have to be, for me,
filtered so that I better understand the objectives, which may not be my inner
intentions. The quote: "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions,"
comes to mind. Machinery can separate good intentions from poor inner
decision-making. This is not being expressed well, but this is what comes to
mind first. In 'goodreads.com' I find a few quotations that may help settle my
sense of this, but first I am reminded to the quotation Doug sent me last
night.
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All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the
dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but
the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with
open eyes.
T.E.Lawrence
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I
wrote that I am inspired by these words that I have never read nor heard
before. I am inspired because of the concluding words: they may act their dream
with open eyes," because by the act of writing I can read and share
Merlyn's fictional dream with open eyes.
Why Merlyn rather than yourself? The dreams
I gather are from you orndorff not Merlyn. - Amorella
I do not do well sharing dreams as a
primary source. I am more comfortable remaining the detached editor. Dark humor
is, I am afraid, the lightest of my dour self, a protective wall between my
romantic and idealistic nature and the way things are in the world. I don't
want perfection, I want us to live as higher natured human beings of which the
marsupial humanoids somewhat represent. And to counter-balance this, the
marsupial humanoid have some desire to become more diverse as we are, as our
planet is. Here are selected quotes from GoodReads that help me clarify my
thinking on the subject:
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“The
motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize
where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have
found a weak spot.”
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“He was
kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him
uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did
anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing
(mostly to himself).”
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“What man
ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze
moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell:
it's self-justifyin's.”
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"It
is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In
fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man's
fallibility, it is likely to make the world worse. From Torquemada to
Robespierre and Hitler the men who have made mankind suffer the most have been
inspired to do so have been inspired to do so by a strong faith; so strong that
it led them to think their crimes were acts of virtue necessary to help them
achieve their aim, which was to build some sort of an ideal kingdom on earth.”
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"I
believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter
the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions.”
“The road
to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain,” Chakotay said with equal
certainty.
“So is the
road to peace,” Cambridge observed.”
“The
Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were,
but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like
oppression.”
From: goodreads.com/quotes/tag/good-intentions
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Sometimes
I don't feel we know where we are coming from, at least I don't, not deep down.
I would like to know or at least to be able to understand what the inner
balance of heart and soul and mind is when writing; and I do know because you,
Amorella see to it that I know for consistency in this project. Perhaps the
marsupial-humanoids have such a devise that that has helped them learn for
themselves what and who they are, that is, what sheorhe is in terms of what is
taken with them when they physically die.
This is who I am, this is what I take with me from this universe. Then,
at least in fiction, when arriving among the Dead one can say: "What you
see is what you get. Warts and all."
It is a rainy morning. Carol has come back
upstairs and climbed into bed for a nap. A rarity for her, but not so much for you. Use the title at hand [Amorella at work] for my own humor. Post. - Amorella
You
had a late lunch at Smashburgers and are presently at Kroger's on Tylersville
for bananas and such. You also did more work on Pouch 18 and are surprised how
it is coming down in words. - Amorella
I am almost always surprised but when I look back at the
notes (which I have not done) and find that mostly your preliminaries are door
openers, pathways, but beyond that I really can't consciously foresee how the
specific dialogue is going to march across the page.
Not true, boy; it marches across the page
from left to right and down to the bottom and begins from the top of the next
page. It doesn't take much prognostication to see the plan in the English
language, or any other. Symbols gathered create words to sentences to
paragraphs across or down the page with rules of grammar as well as margins for
error. In here you begin with quantum mechanics, elements, basic physics, and
move on up and down and out into a three and four dimensional universe; one
universe per non-fiction, so to speak and before long one has a library shelf
or two. A few rules carry the day, literally and otherwise. - Amorella
I think I don't have the ability to really appreciate
you, Amorella. You reduce the universe to something I can better understand
without going into the rules of physics and light and gravity and all those
details. Thank you.
The point here is that one can do a lot with
a few simple rules that people can follow without putting a lot of words
together in the process. What I am talking about here is how the book segments
will come together naturally if you will. No different really than the word
coming out of your fingertips naturally. - Amorella
I
am not so very bright, Amorella.
That is not a problem as you can see. -
Amorella
1519 hours. O such wit. Such humor. You stop me in my
tracks.
I stop you only because you are observant
beyond the obvious. What you see doesn't take light, boy. Later, dude. -
Amorella
I'm wordless anyway. Sometimes all it takes is a period.
You have been home awhile and working on the
printer for Carol, -- and you finally fixed it. Post what you have. - Amorella
You have every reason to agree with
Solzhenitsyn on this point. Let such matters settle overnight. Tomorrow we
complete Pouch 18 and move on. Post. - Amorella
2200 hours. We just finished watching the
three part PBS series "The Bletchley Circle".
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The
Bletchley Circle
About
the series
With an extraordinary flair
for code breaking and razor-sharp intelligence skills, four seemingly ordinary
women become the unlikely investigators of a string of grisly murders in this
original thriller, set against the backdrop of post-war London.
It’s 1951 and Susan, played by two-time BAFTA award-winner Anna
Maxwell Martin, Millie (Rachael Stirling, Women in Love), Lucy (Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art graduate Sophie Rundle) and Jean (Julie Graham, William
& Mary, Survivors) have returned to post-war domesticity, modestly
setting aside the part they played in the Allied victory. Their brilliant work
at top security HQ Bletchley Park helped crack the codes used by the German
military, producing crucial intelligence that shortened the war.
Susan’s conventionality
masks a sharp, inquisitive mind. She may appear every inch the typical 1950s
wife and mother, but when she hears about a string of unsolved murders in
London, Susan’s old Bletchley spirit is ignited. With her handwritten charts of
numbers, dates and times, and lines of wool connecting the dots on her wall
map, Susan has spotted a pattern of behaviour in the killer that no one else
sees. Unaware of her background, the police dismiss Susan’s theories causing
her to realise that the only way she can solve the murders is with the help of
her friends.
Secretly, Susan reconvenes the formidable foursome – bohemian and
streetwise Millie; Lucy, with her brilliant photographic memory and Jean, the
methodical no-nonsense organiser. A race against the clock ensues as the women
work to outwit the culprit. Can they rekindle their singular expertise and
discover the killer’s next move – before he strikes again?
From: pbs.org
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You watched them directly one after the
other. Both of you enjoyed the whole of the production. To you both this was
better 'art' than many 'who-done-it' films made for the big screen. Early on
you were reminded of A Man Called Intrepid and the role for secrecy
throughout and after the war. - Amorella
I greatly admire those known and unknown heroes who kept
their wartime secrets, some for their lifetimes.
Earlier this afternoon you were driving home
from Kroger's and at the corner of Tylersville and S.R. 42 (Reading Road) you
watched as a man turned left onto Tylersville he was in a white van and he
appeared to be a direct lookalike to Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn who wrote a book
you once had for required reading at Indian Hill High School, One Day in the
Life of Ivan Denisovich.
2218 hours. I remember two of his other books, The
First Circle and The Gulag Archipelago. I remember skimming both
books but I do not remember if I actually read them as I did Ivan
Denisovich. In skimming Goggle I found a wonderful quotation, a wonderful
quotation that my heart openly applauds.
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“The sole
substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and
literature.”
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