Late morning. You just completed forty
minutes of exercise, and you had mentioned Smashburgers for lunch as well as a
walk in the park as presently it is not raining. You finished up last night’s
post online but did not include it here. Drop it in where it belongs because,
as you say, the focus, a major theme in the Merlyn books is perspective. Taken
to heart you continually learn something important about how your species fits
into the scheme of the world, the galaxy and the universe. Now you wonder how
all this fits into the scheme of Before. – Amorella
1141 hours. Fiction allows a broad range of perspectives.
One of my favorites is the whale, Moby Dick. What does he think on Captain Ahab
and the Pequod? My bet, a nuisance, and a natural problematic he has to deal
with from time to time. Ahab’s rants mean nothing; the crew’s loyalty to their
captain, nothing; Ishmael’s survival, nothing.
** **
Three "Goodread quotations" from Moby Dick I find fitting
here:
*
“Whenever I find myself growing
grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul;
whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and
bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos
get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to
prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically
knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon
as I can.”
*
“There are certain queer times and
occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole
universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly
discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his
own.”
*
“... and Heaven have mercy on us
all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully
cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.”
*
** **
I see little whale in these lines above,
only humanity in a bloody sorrow for no reason but herorhis own.
Taking to preaching, eh, boy? – Amorella
No, taking to showing how literature projected into
perspective displays humanity better than social statistics.
1210
hours. Here’s the preaching: “We need to be more like we can be rather than
what we are. We need to rise up and display our humanity first and live by it.
The Golden Rule is a start. And, by we, I mean myself first.” – rho
Early
afternoon. You are heading to Panera/Chipotle for lunch and then a stop at Kroger’s
on Tylersville. Spooky had to have her butt cleaned and she meowed when you
were holding her. Jadah watched then as we left she went over and gave Spooky a
nose kiss. Jadah, who is about half the weight, sees herself as an adopted
mother. You are happy they are companions in that they play together several
times a day, sometimes jumping over each other like bunnies playing in the
yard. – Amorella
Late
afternoon, you had your lunch, stopped for groceries and drove Carol to Pine
Hill Lakes for her walk. While she walked you completed the corrections, etc., that
are on the chapter ten hard copy. – Amorella
1658 hours. This was a surprise. I didn’t rush; the chapter
had fewer corrections unless I have to add to Dead 10 and delete a paragraph
that was made clear in the previous chapter. I finish just as Carol knocked on
the car door. I did not even see or hear her coming up.
We will work in something if need be. Take a
break, orndorff. Later. – Amorella
You
had a snack for supper and watched the news, a new comedy with “Jack” in the
title, “Believe” and “Suits”. You also keyboarded in Dead 10 and are now ready
for bed. Post. – Amorella
2302 hours. Earlier today, in the first paragraph you
mention the species might fit (in a fiction) in the scheme of the world and galaxy
and universe as well as in the Before. I need some clarification here as it
seems this should be woven, or dare
I say, ‘braided’ within book one.
I agree there are dimensions unaccounted for
here but hey, (as you say) Dante had his nine circles up into the rose. –
Amorella
I think dimension is overused as a word. It can mean too
many things or levels.
We use the tree as an image, and its
Christmas like lights are universes since this has already been suggested in
one of the earlier Merlyn books. The root of which is being enriched by the
‘soil’ before. The tree sets on a flat ‘mirror-like’ lake from which it also
gains nourishment. The ‘sun’ is as a ‘tunnel’ with the sky being the gateway to
a ‘mass’ from which this ‘sun’ (look alike) tunnels through, looking not unlike
a root only instead of a ‘solid’ (physical-like) it is hollow like a horn of
Empty not plenty. Something along these lines, what do you think? - Amorella
2319
hours. This is a surprise, but it is better than dimensions. How will some of
this come out in the story?
Part through Ship, Yermey and the beacon on
dark matter; part is shown via an accident caused by the Earthlings on
HomePlanets; part when the Dead challenge the Supervisor once again for further
clarification; and part when Grandma (The laws of nature are fooled by other
laws of nature not seen since the Beginning after the Before (the Big Bang so
to speak). We will work this into a reasoned plausibility certainly with more
clarity than Dante’s politics mixed within the circles. – Amorella
2330 hours. I have to keep ‘knowing nothing’ in mind and
heart here. Whatever you say, Amorella. It is my choice to give your concepts and setting/plot/theme a
try. Who am I to say what can and cannot be done in a fiction?
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