19 November 13
Mid-afternoon. Take home Penn Station and a
pack of chips for lunch then to the post office with letters out as well as
Doug’s book returned. You and Carol just talked to Kim and tomorrow you are
taking Ellie and their trip goods up for a drop off and then early lunch out
and you’re returning home because they have an appointment in the early
afternoon. Tentatively, early next Tuesday morning you are all leaving for
Westerville and dropping off Jen’s car at Mary Lou’s. The Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame opens at ten. You will also stop at On the Rise for cookies. Once back to
Westerville where you are dropping off Linda, Jean and Jen you are going to Kim
and Paul’s for Tuesday and Wednesday night, then Thursday afternoon Linda and
the others will leave with you. Friday mornings they will leave for Tampa. Busy
family national holiday times. – Amorella
20 November 13
Today you returned Ellie to Kim, Paul and
the boys, then took Kim and Paul to lunch at Polaris. Kim and Paul had an early
afternoon appointment with their realtor and contractor. Once home you had a
nap then watched a few shows between left over soup for supper. You are feeling
somewhat detached from writing – both blog and book. Here is the reason. We
have to return to the 14 November posting and your list in reference to the
book Doug lent you. - Amorella
** **
“You have completed Daniel Tammet’s Thinking
in Numbers and here is a list you compiled on a piece of Stick-um-Note to
read again:
147 – on the unconscious and dreams; 153
– hopscotch as a literary structure (akin to how the Merlyn books are
structured); 167 – money and the Greeks – Tammet sees no way to create a social
order in which there are no poor; 170 – the distribution of wealth, usually in
societies 20 percent or higher hold most of the wealth, the rest digresses
downward; 173 – Tolstoy’s short story: “How Much Land Does a Man Need” is
mentioned but the conclusion is not mentioned; which is, only enough to bury
him; 189 – chess, you enter the dark forest with another (in your move, your
strategy) and only one may return; I take this as good advice and also see the
deeper meaning of learning from one’s mistakes to better grasp the game; 192 –
chess is like conversation in terms of how it is conducted; 208 – morality
tables do not take into account one of the most important aspects of life,
variation is the essence (of survival of the species) not statistics; and 228 –
metaphors are the essence of mathematical thought.”
14 November posting
** **
You
realized upon completing Tammet’s book that your concept of the economic world
of the marsupial humanoids would not work with human beings, that human beings
don’t have the humanity for the concept because they do not have the
environmental or genetic conditioning to accept the concept that they are
basically children who never mature to the point of giving up pride and greed
for the greater good. – Amorella
2248 hours. I feel I have made a grave
mistake in not recognizing the species for what it is. The basic human
Christian concept may work in HeavenOrHellBothOrNeither but the Earthlings will
not have any of it because it is ‘foreign’ to our nature – one-up-man-ship,
competition, the basic laws of survival on this planet. As Merlyn would say, “It
is a dream.”
2258 hours. You're wit twists a smile, Amorella. Of course it is a dream. I wish it were real, that's all.
No, boy. Not really. You are not the fool you think you are and you are not the wise man you wish yourself to be.
It is nice to read a simple truth now and then. Thank you, Amorella, for providing a little nonfiction to the posting. (2312)
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