10 July 2013

Notes - imagination and reality? / humor / "frankly"


        Shortly after noon local time. You had an arthritic morning but finished it with almost an hour of exercise after a hot bath and a pain pill an hour before that. You have been thinking ahead on the two chapters but as you have little idea there is no need to waste your energy. Time for Dead 20 so let those characters in Pouch get some sleep; they had a very long day when you think on it. - Amorella

         1217 hours. I can't even remember what happened at the conclusion of Dead 19. I cannot think in four stories at once.

         But you have an understanding of how it would be to be twenty feet into the four cardinal directions at once. - Amorella

         I do. I had to acclimate myself to that task while in a Chinese dragon story on the top of a mountain. Actually it was a four dimensional box or a pyramid and an inverted pyramid in ship so it was the four cardinal directions and a centered up and down, again let's say at twenty feet. Mentally I can stretch that far at once. Or, let's say, I felt that I did do that in the story. I had to check, it was Grandma's Story 14, but I think it was in the original story for Braided Dreams that I 'felt/understood' how it was to be stretched in six directions the most. I realize these were imaginary not 'real' experiences.

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Grandma 14

            I am standing here posted on one of the stone walls of a small hut on a rounded, but ridged mountain summit about a thousand feet high. This is an austere place where three people are spending their summer.


            Shushu is a pleasant woman who has her own way or else. Her summer love is Ch’ang. Her great aunt, Lili, shaman of both local tribes, is also on the summit. The stone hut is Lili’s for the summer months, and she invited Shushu and Ch’ang. Neither Shushu nor Ch’ang, are related except by love.


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         In here, when you are Dead, what is the difference between imaginary and real? - Amorella

         Wow. That is a really, really good question, Amorella.

         Let's make that the focus of Dead Twenty. - Amorella

         1309 hours. We are about to go in to Blue Ash and pick up a couple of Marx Bagels for lunch.

         Later, dude. Post. - Amorella


         1542 hours. We have been working on the downstairs, reading for Linda and Jean on Friday afternoon. Tomorrow I am to Westerville for lunch with Fritz, visit family, and the evening gathering Uptown Westerville. Carol has lunch with Blue Ash Retired Teachers (the large group); Ann F. is going to ride in with her. What's amazing is that Laney Bender-Slack's kindergarten teacher still comes to their monthly gathering. The Bender kids all grew up in Blue Ash. Laney, my dear muse, is a bit older herself, as are we all. I still miss seeing her every day as I almost always did when we were teaching together at William Mason High. This morning I received a quick note from Angie Edmunds, who is teaching at Wyoming High School, her old Alma Mater. I miss my old colleagues sometimes. They are never far away, and other old friends mentioned along the way in these blog postings.



         You start thinking of your friends and it's hard to know when to stop. They know who they are, and many indeed, are mentioned from time to time in the blog. You want to always treat them equally, let that happen in the heart, boy, not in your mind. People want to equate one with the other as you attempt to do by writing them together 'heartansoulanmind' but it doesn't work that way, even in a fiction such as this. This is one of the problems with your words "Equal" and "Justice". There is no end to discussion because they are unequal parts of the whole person. It is comparing the insides of apples, oranges and grapes. Juicy insides, all fruits, but their time in the sun and rain is different, different roots. - Amorella

         1601 hours. But, Amorella, if the soul and heart and mind are a real part of the definition of human and marsupial humanoid -- I forgot where I was going with this.

         Let's continue with using the soul as a reference in Dead 20 and let's stick with it through chapter 21. - Amorella

         I hope this is not going to complicate matters. This book is complicated enough already. Like I said, I don't remember the conclusion of Dead 19.

         Memory is not what is being stretched, boy, it is self-awareness. - Amorella

         Self-awareness sounds egotistical and selfish, I'm rather embarrassed about it because although obviously the focus is on Merlyn I am the ingredients. I would rather keep my mouth shut and listen. I feel more comfortable listening.

         Your sharing online makes it less selfish; besides stretching is good for the soul no matter whose soul it is. - Amorella

         1614 hours. It sounds like the person owns herorhis soul. That doesn't seem right; that is not just.

         Nor is it right or just for the soul to own the heartanmind. - Amorella

         Ownership is not in the mix.

         No, it is not. - Amorella

         The soul cannot own anything.

         It cannot. - Amorella

         The heart cannot own anything.

         No, it cannot. - Amorella

         What about the mind?

         It works both ways in this context. - Amorella
        
         But people use the term "my soul", "my heart" and "my mind". 

         That's food for fodder, boy. - Amorella

          1624 hours. You have such a dark humor, Amorella.

         It is but a reflection of your own, boy. Post. - Amorella

         I am a despicable rascal.

         That leaves out sainthood. - Amorella

         You make me laugh out loud, Amorella

         Humor is your saving grace, boy. Use this as your title here. Post. - Amorella



         2114 hours. We had cereal, veggies and fruit for supper while we watched "Rizzoli and Isles" then "King and Maxwell" and NBC News.
                 
         You and Doug traded notes today and I am interested in his thoughts just as you are. You mostly because I have mentioned several times that time is as droplets of water in the story. Here is Doug's first note on an article about how the second can now be better calculated:

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Dick, Thanks for the info on the new clock. Very interesting! Someday soon they may find that time is indeed quantized and not continuous. What this implies I am not sure, but what exists between quantized time units?
Doug
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And a second note on quantized time:

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Dick, Thanks for the [second] article. Remember at the quantum level time may not exist. There are many example of a particle being at two places at the same time, a common feature of sub atomic particles.

I would like to add that if time is quantized there could be an infinite or random delay between time pulses in which we exist. To exist in only quantized time pulses to me basically makes me feel we have no understanding of how the universe is constructed. Maybe this is where all the other dimensions live.

Doug
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         You responded with:
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Doug (and Nancy),

Very interesting thoughts, Doug. I will have to internalize these things. I love this. It is like the world is our classroom. We can study a lot right here as we live and breathe. Speculation on plausibilities. Retirement is good.    ;-)
Dick

PS - We agree -- on the "no understanding" I come back to Plato's Allegory on the Cave. Only maybe it isn't a cave wall maybe we should be looking from the cave wall first, from the beginning or a beginning. Or, from someplace else entirely where we can see the cave wall and the person viewing the cave, or something else entirely. 

This sounds like a focus somewhere in the books for me -- plausibilities’s unthought of. Maybe to begin with the soul first, the circumstances that would cause the soul to exist (I am thinking fiction here of course. The 'evolution' of the soul sort of thing. What would be the happenstance for this to happen? 

I think our minds share a similar path, always have. 
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         2134 hours. I see I made a spelling error; a plague from being a teacher of English. I didn't know you were going to request this on the blog.

         You brought it on yourself by suggesting, "Maybe [quantized time could relate to] the soul." You were thinking that the fictional marsupial humanoids could suggest their theories on quantized time and the soul to the earthlings. And, now upon seeing this on the screen you wonder if you are attempting to make this story your story and not mine, and that that is not a good idea. Do I have this correctly written, boy? - Amorella

        You have the general truth. I get excited about these thing and say, 'Oh, wow! This is so cool to think on, to speculate on.' When Doug and I used to get together we would talk and speculate in our pre-teens and teens. Some of it was on this sort of stuff and on articles I remember from Fate Magazine. Let me see if I can find an example. One article from the May 1960 issue is titled: "You Can Use Your Subconscious" -- well, I did/do that. I was more into these than Doug but we still had the discussions. I still get excited when he suggests things to think about. It is in our nature.

         Curiosity and wonder on reality are in your passions, boy. Certainly with the Blake character along don't you think quantized time would come up eventually? He is somewhat like Doug and you in that he has the curiosity and wonder too. I temper these things in story form because frankly you need the help. Post. - Amorella

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