Mid-morning. The day is dark and heavy with
humidity with lot of lightning and subsequence of cannon-like rumblings
throughout the night. You are wondering about GMG.One and how the proof is
coming along at BookBaby. They said it would be ten days – why don’t you check
it, boy. – Amorella
1050 hours. I had a nap. I did check.
BookBaby and they sent me a note on 12 August that I should have the new proof
within ten business days so that would make it next week, the 26th.
That was easy enough. No sense in using
mental energy on concern when there is no need to do so. – Amorella
1056 hours. That is an interesting
statement. I would think there is no reason to waste mental energy on any sort
of concern when there is little or nothing that can be done.
Humanity takes over, boy, and a person
worries or becomes anxious when a real need to worry arises. In here, ask the
Living or the Dead. – Amorella
Do
you want to exploit this, boy? – Amorella
1101 hours. No. I have no need or want
to do so Amorella. There is enough darkness in this world already, no need to
worry about the next, fiction or not.
Post. – Amorella
1105 hours. Your dark humor is
sometimes unsettling. I would just as soon let this commentary go. I don’t know
why I even thought to exploit it. “Can I use this?” just popped up out of the
blue. I tried to shove it back, that’s when you asked if I wanted to exploit
this – to bring the thought to light, no doubt.
I need you to remain transparent, boy.
Otherwise I cannot be of assistance. It is a rule. – Amorella
Mid-afternoon. You picked up a take out
lunch from the Italian Street Restaurant on Mason-Montgomery and ran some
errands as well as straightened up the desktop to work on Chapter Four. –
Amorella
1550 hours. We had a late lunch. Carol
has been working on washing clothes most of the day since we are going to be
gone for a week. King’s next door will check on everything and feed and care for
the cats. Tim will probably mow the grass as we have had two inches of rain in
the last couple of days – everything is greening up. We had rain and lots of thunder last night. Sometimes when
it is out of the northeast we hear a secondary echo-like effect of long rumbles
out of the Little Miami River Valley, which is about three miles to our east. As
we make our way down into the valley it is like we are in the beautiful West
Virginia hill/mountain country. This is a very nice place to live – very
pretty. It also reminds us of the Virginia side of the Washington Beltway. What
is the chapter theme for chapter four?
Let’s use ‘Reasonable Wonder’. – Amorella
This is an odd choice. I don’t equate
wonder with reasonable.
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reasonable
– adjective
1 (of
a person) having sound judgment; fair and sensible: no reasonable person
could have objected.
•
based on good sense: it seems a reasonable enough request | the guilt
of a person on trial must be proved beyond reasonable doubt.
• archaic
(of a person or animal) able to think,
understand, or form judgments by a logical process: man is by nature
reasonable.
2 as
much as is appropriate or fair; moderate: a police officer may use
reasonable force to gain entry.
•
fairly good; average: the carpet is in reasonable condition.
•
(of a price or product) not too expensive: a restaurant serving excellent
food at reasonable prices | they are lovely shoes and very reasonable.
ORIGIN Middle
English: from Old French raisonable, suggested by Latin
rationabilis ‘rational,’ from ratio.
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wonder –
noun
a
feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful,
unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable: he had stood in front of it,
observing the intricacy of the ironwork with the wonder of a child.
•
the quality of a person or thing that causes wonder: Athens was a place of
wonder and beauty.
•
a strange or remarkable person, thing, or event: the electric trolley car
was looked upon as the wonder of the age.
•
[ as modifier ] having remarkable properties or abilities: a wonder drug.
•
[ in sing. ] a surprising event or situation: it is a wonder that losses are
not much greater
ORIGIN Old
English wundor (noun), wundrian (verb), of Germanic origin;
related to Dutch wonder and German Wunder, of
unknown ultimate origin.
Selected and edited from
the Oxford/American software
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1615
hours. What comes to mind is “surprise mingled with sensibility” – this too is
an odd combination. It is like you [Amorella] having this comment after my
reading the chapter – “What did you expect, boy?”
You can always change these chapter titles
after the fact. – Amorella
1622 hours. I would not do that
because if I change the theme title all it might mean is that I missed the
point. I assume there is a point to the titles.
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