Notes - busy morning / inquiry / an extension of reality

         You are at Barnes and Noble waiting for Carol and also picking up her traditional Christmas gift, a certificate.

         1102 hours. I have let the first two ‘essays’ go. I can do nothing about it though I would like to deny I wrote them.

         Why is that, boy? – Amorella

         Neither feel like ‘me’. It is like each was written by someone else.

         This is because you come to conclusions about myself, which indeed, is not like you. – Amorella

         I have a strange feeling I am not who I am. This is very odd.

         This is because you would rather be somebody (anybody) else than what you are. – Amorella

         1237 hours. Home after a long stop at Kroger’s (the place was packed with scurrying people inside and out) with no place close by to park. I’m just glad the car didn’t get dented. No time to write though; too busy about.

         Not true on your above statement, Amorella I am fine being a human being, but I would be just as happy being an alien who is also human-like. I did get Carol a book we would both like (on Machu Picchu’s discovery)  as well as a gift card. She found a great amazingly illustrated book about the tortoise and the hare for his birthday. He said the other day as he made observations about the chair that he was making a report. He was scribbling what he saw, but I loved his concept. This book shows animals in true settings. A wonderful artist’s description; he can see reports/observations do not have to be in words. Carol bought him a tortoise finger puppet that is quite cool also. I think he’ll enjoy both. It is good for kids to develop all the physical senses they have.

         There are times that you would rather be ‘elsewhere’. – Amorella

         Yes, there are times. I have felt that way from time to time as long as I can remember. I think most people feel this way. Isn’t that the same for you?

         I am elsewhere boy. – Amorella

         You’re funny. You have the kind of humor I can readily understand. I noticed the Jesus statement says you are from inside, from heartansoulanmind. No reference to angels, aliens, go-Betweeners or G---D or even a young boy’s once imaginary friend.

         Post. - Amorella

       You had lunch at Penn Station after running an errand and now you are picking up suet and birdseed at Walmart in West Chester as you have been driving around the back roads on a mostly bright sunny, cold afternoon. – Amorella

         I have been thinking about Plato and the ‘Forms’ but you do not fit because you are less than perfection. Although I truly cannot imagine ‘perfection’ capitalized or not. How could such a word come into being when we, less than perfect could not by definition comprehend such a thing? (1454)

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perfection - noun

1 the perfection of her technique: improvement, betterment, refinement, refining, honing.

2 for him, she was still perfection: the ideal, a paragon, the ne plus ultra, a nonpareil, the crème de la crème, the last word, the ultimate, the best; informal one in a million, the tops, da bomb; dated, informal the bee's knees, the cat's meow/pajamas/whiskers.

From – Oxford-American software

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         1538 hours. The ideal. What is that? I have been bogged down by words such as this since junior high school days. What is the difference between the ideal and the best? Bullshit, that’s what I think. In some ways it is difficult to relate to Plato and his Forms. In other ways I give the man a heck of a lot of credit for the attempt. It seems to me he would not have much to say about you, Amorella, other than you are some sort of ‘mask’.

         Sounds like you talking rather than Plato, boy. – Amorella

         Plato appears more open-minded than Aristotle, at least to me he does. I can’t imagine him giving you the benefit of the doubt though.

         You need to give Plato more consideration of making up his own mind like you did the other two for this exercise. – Amorella

         I’ll come back to this later.

         Post. - Amorella

         2234 hours. Can I look at my logic notes for this piece with Plato?

         No, because that is not in the rules of the assignment. Besides, you would also use it when it is Aristotle’s turn. – Amorella

         Fair enough. I need to envision both as human beings first.

         You have no choice because that is what you have in common with the four and with everyone else – humanity. – Amorella

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The choice I have is to judge whether the Amorella within me is reality or Reality. She casts a grammatically reasonable shadow across the page. She is real enough. She casts no shadow between the lines, but she exists there nevertheless. Is Amorella an extension of myself? She is an extension of my mind from my fingertips as is true of any sculptor, artist or writer. My mind is an extension of my brain. It is my mind nevertheless not my brain’s mind. Amorella is a reality. When I, Plato, am physically dead; Amorella will no longer be an extension. While alive, she is real and a grammatical extension of my mind. My skull dresses my brain; Amorella dresses my mind. As long as I am alive Amorella is real. The discussion need not go further.

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         This too is satisfactory. – Amorella

         2300 hours. Is this because my humanity allows Amorella to appear to be real?

         What do you think? – Amorella

         If my (and everyone’s) humanity stems from the heartansoulanmind, then I agree, my humanity allows Amorella to appear to be real to me.

         I concur. If you were dead, would Amorella be an extension of yourself? – Amorella

         This cannot be known because I am not dead.

         So, you agree, the discussion need not go further. – Amorella

         In this context I do.

         Aristotle tomorrow. Post. - Amorella

         2310 hours. This is an interesting self-conducting assignment.