Mid-morning. While the girls were out
walking the beach you had a bowl of cereal and a banana and orange juice for
breakfast as you were reading the Tampa Bay Times, one of the best
newspapers in the United States from your perspective. - Amorella
I like that it is non-profit and is an excellent newspaper besides.
** **
The Tampa Bay Times, previously named the St. Petersburg Times through 2011, is an American newspaper published in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is one of two major publications serving the Tampa Bay Area, the other being The Tampa Tribune, which the Times has long topped in both circulation and readership. The Times has won 10 Pulitzer Prizes since 1964, and in 2009, won two in a single year for the first time in the paper's history. It is published by the Times Publishing Company, which is owned by The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a nonprofit journalism school directly adjacent to the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus. –
The Tampa Bay Times, previously named the St. Petersburg Times through 2011, is an American newspaper published in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is one of two major publications serving the Tampa Bay Area, the other being The Tampa Tribune, which the Times has long topped in both circulation and readership. The Times has won 10 Pulitzer Prizes since 1964, and in 2009, won two in a single year for the first time in the paper's history. It is published by the Times Publishing Company, which is owned by The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a nonprofit journalism school directly adjacent to the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus. –
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** **
Soon you will be off to Home Goods, a store
about eleven miles away in St. Pete because the girls want to go shopping –
simple as that, boy. – Amorella
0946
hours. No problem. Shopping comes with the territory. I will take my trusty
MacAir and use the keyboard and read and maybe write. Who knows? In any case,
my mind will be on keel. The Gulf is blue-green this morning and calm like
the Great Lakes can be -- a pleasant memory.
1324 hours. I completed the near final of Brothers 11. I like it.
***
The Brothers 11 © 2015 rho
Robert
and Richard are at the Taco Bell on Schrock Road for an afternoon snack. Both
are sitting opposite of each other at their usual table. Robert had a steak burrito
and water with lemon while Richard ate a chicken burrito with a diet Coke.
While
making sure his side of the table was clean, Richard asks, “What’s the book you
brought?”
Robert
picks it up from the chair next to him. “It’s a book showing the art by Edward Hopper, 1882-1967 by Rolf Gunter
Renner.”
Richard’s
eyes lit, “I think I have the same book somewhere upstairs or in the basement.”
“To
me, Hopper is an existential painter,” says Robert, “and I know your book is
formatted in an existential theme, so I thought there might be a painting in
here that would help me better visually better understand your Merlyn’s dreams.”
Glancing
through the book Richard smiles saying, “I like art books. They give me
inspiration.”
“Me
too. In a recent poem I searched through old National 1Geographic’s for focus on a desert flower.”
“A
desert flower in the dead of an Ohio winter,” jokes Richard skimming the book
from beginning to end. Richard stopped. “I like this painting best, the one
titled Hotel Lobby. It is the only
painting where someone is reading.”
Robert sits patiently then comments, “That’s the one I thought you would choose. There is another
painting titled “Chair Car” where a
woman is also reading. Her hair is auburn. Still, it is a rather desolate
setting."
“Is that good?”
“For me it is. I have already written my ideas on this.“
“Fair enough,” says Richard focusing on the painting of the auburn hair
woman reading a magazine. She is sitting in a railway car on a light, olive
green bench seat. The green theme permeates the railway car wall behind her and
the sidewall with the window. A lamp sets on the wall to her right but is not
turned on. The light is coming from beyond the painting in the upper right hand
corner. There is a dark haired lady in red sitting on the opposite side.
Richard observes the other Hopper painting. The woman in blue in the hotel
lobby is as a framed still life. There is a woman in red opposing her also. A
tall gentleman is standing near, perhaps ready to converse; perhaps he will
move on silently. It reminds me of Sartre’s No
Exit.
“No Exit embodies a leaking existential setting of Hell. Neither Hopper
or Sartre reflects the afterworld in your books though,” comments Robert,
“Merlyn is dreaming the stories. Each chapter has Merlyn as the first card in
hand and each segment is a separate card; always in order.”
“I hadn’t thought that,” replies Richard, “I thought Merlyn dreamed each
segment automatically. I was thinking of the DNA double helix. The chapter
segments binds the Living and the Dead like a double helix. “He pauses, “Human
beings are dreamers. That’s a given human condition.”
Robert replies sarcastically, “Human primates groom. That is also a
given human condition. So dead humans continue to groom and dream of themselves
and others in a kind of death releasing fantasy world.”
Richard shrugs his shoulders, “Sounds reasonable to me. The Dead socialize
and ask questions in the books so they have a social and intellectual
consciousness that is a part of who they are.”
Robert laughs, “If that is the case, people spend the majority of their
time between lines of importance. People talk about metaphysics meaning the
spiritual; but in the really long run of human consciousness. You are dead a lot
longer than you are living. Here’s my point, “Edward Hopper appears to show he
is conscious when he paints.”
Richard shakes his head affirmative and says, “That he does.”
“Hopper is very deliberate.”
“I agree,” responds Richard. “In Merlyn’s dreams, time is noted by
length of sentences and paragraphs and space is noted by the space between words
and paragraphs.” He comments, “You want metaphysics, this reminds me of a quote
by William Blake.”
Robert suddenly reflects his brother’s smile, “What’s the quote?”
“Both read the Bible day and
night. But thou readist black when I read white.”
Robert chuckles, “Metaphysics at Taco Bell.”
Richard laughs, “I forgot where I am.”
Robert laughs because his
brother laughs and supposedly for no other reason.
***
Post. - Amorella
Post. - Amorella
Reduce this Introduction to fifty words. -
Amorella
Carol and Linda are back from their second
walk on the sand and you completed your forty some minutes of exercises and are
feeling better for it. – Amorella
1611
hours. At least I am doing something physical while we are at the beach. It is
too hot for me to venture out and exercise (the sand is not stable or flat
enough for me to walk on arthritically with any high degree of confidence) and
though we might have gone to the pool later we are not because Bill and Jean
are coming for supper sometime within the hour.
Now what, you are thinking – do I begin work
on Grandma’s Story or Diplomatic Pouch and save The Dead for last or switch around
by flipping a coin or two? – Amorella
1623
hours. Thanks for reminding me to add: “leaking” to “embodies a[n ][leaking]
existential setting of Hell”. It makes sense with ‘There’s a Hole in the Bucket”
chapter heading. Being dead in Merlyn is like being alive on Earth, only being
dead is clearer and more focused on being more fully human (or not). I find a
great deal of humor in the concept.
I, the Amorella, also find the situation
humorous especially because you find it humorous.
Being
both Dead and Alive has a common sense to it. I don’t think most people are not
aware of how dead they are, not that there is anything wrong with not being
aware of it, at least not consciously. Life is more interesting if one is aware
– the issue is a black or white one, no question about it and it heightens what
life is, at least to me. It makes no difference if one is lying in bed or walking
down the street, one doesn’t have to be driving a race car at 180 miles an hour
to feel the experience.
You
five had a good supper at the Daiquiri Shack on Gulf B. Linda then picked up
her belongings and drove home with Bill and Jean. She will return on Thursday
for the day and on Friday morning you are having breakfast at Frida’s with
Linda and Bill after Bill stops by the St. Pete Vet’s Hospital for his weekly
medicine. – Amorella
2131
hours. I have decided that the most reasonable chapter eleven segment to begin
next is Grandma’s Story with 4390 words in two stories to reduce to 800 words
or less, i.e. no more than 400 words for each.
You’ll appreciate my help on this one, boy.
Let’s get started. – Amorella
2135
hours. That wasn’t my thought, however, I will work on the preliminaries. Grandma
A begins with 2712 words and Grandma B begins with 1687 words. There is an
Introduction of 1300 some words to the first story.
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