27 July 2016

Notes - a short piece / why is this?



       Mid-morning. You had your exam this morning and there are no problems with the stomach band itself; it is neither too loose nor too tight. No other problems except aberrations in the lower esophagus. Tomorrow you can pick up the final on a disk (at the hospital) for Paul. Jill will be coming shortly. Errands to run and places to go, plus Carol is going to walk at the community center. – Amorella

       1100 hours. I am going to work on Grandma 14 while Carol is in walking. The car windows are down and it is already hot – too far to pick up Tri-Health WiFi service, bummer.

       I see you have a problem – the characters have been transverse. This has to be thoroughly checked out. Time for a break. - Amorella

       You drove over to the new Liberty Centre shopping mall about three miles northwest from the house on the west side of I-75. You were surprised to see a new Graeter’s so you broke it in with two chocolate sodas, which were excellent. So, you have three Graeter’s Ice Cream Stores within five miles of the house. – Amorella

       1245 hours. Who would have thought this is even possible. The sodas were lunch. I going to have to go over the text – it appears I have to change the afternoon dinner to Lord Robert and Lady Allowyn’s. I need to use the box and the oak table as threads to their genealogies – nothing else appears that important. The two women are cousins but another Allowyn babe with Sir Geoffrey as the secret father brings a closer connection, especially if the love child is directly linked to Robert and Richard Greystone as well as to the Bleacher girls, Connie and Cyndi. The whole idea stems from the fact that Carol and I share a grandfather from the 14th century according to Carol’s Uncle John’s DNA and my DNA, both tests from Oxford Ancestry. Of course it would be coincidence, but I don’t believe so and neither does Carol, nor my mother and her mother who were best friends from their pre-school days through college. I have a stronger belief in accidental meetings and accidental genetics; however sometimes (anywhere with humans anywhere in the world) I am not so sure. I wouldn’t call it a Divine Plan (shunning my Presbyterianism here) but sometimes matter are allowed to happen as a matter of course. Nature is ruthless for procreation but accident may be this transcendental existentialist’s point of view, accident within the shadow of an unseen Angel or a naturally deeper Force from before the universe ever lit in its birth. Something a bit brighter, but still akin to these words from Melville’s Moby Dick.

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"Starbuck, of late I've felt strangely moved to thee; ever since that hour we both saw--thou know'st what, in one another's eyes. But in this matter of the whale, be the front of thy face to me as the palm of this hand--a lipless, unfeatured blank. Ahab is forever Ahab, man.  This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled.  Fool!  I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders. Look thou, underling! that thou obeyest mine.--Stand round men, men.

Ye see an old man cut down to the stump; leaning on a shivered lance; propped up on a lonely foot. 'Tis Ahab--his body's part; but Ahab's soul's a centipede, that moves upon a hundred legs. I feel strained, half-stranded, as ropes that tow dismasted frigates
in a gale; and I may look so.  But ere I break, yell hear me crack; and till ye hear that, know that Ahab's hawser tows his purpose yet. Believe ye, men, in the things called omens?

Chapter 134, Moby Dick

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       1442 hours. The lines: “This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled”, are beyond truth’s shadow, at least this is how I see our setting, our reality, in this multi-dimensional universe we find life for ourselves to make discoveries small and large, each in our own heartansoulanmind looking out other living figures much shaped like our own physics. Who’s to say Melville did not hit on a metaphorical truth that science cannot absolve? – rho

       Melville’s lines strike magic and mold you shaman-like to dance around a fire of words for good or ill. For you, like it or not, see the great white whale as an Angel of G-D and twist the story to meet your personal commitment to challenge the Beyond to a truth you feel beyond your bones but cannot see rectified in the physics of the living world. Is this not so, boy? – Amorella

       1453 hours. I hear thunder in your words above, Amorella, but striking out is not my way, I am no Ahab, no Fate’s lieutenant. I do not act under orders. I am nonfiction. I am lonely for but a smattering of a G-D before and beyond all things save heartsansoulsanminds. In times of such a moment as this, I see myself standing on no ground at all. I forget I am alive and thus as dead, find myself secure and writing to the heavens and beyond.

       1628 hours. I appreciate that my words can be honestly shouted, and I further appreciate the returning silence. How I appear within as here (physically) and not here (heartansoul) during such times is beyond my understanding. This does not make such shouting at the heavens unreal though. Reality has a framework we cannot see or envision – that’s my take. – rho

       You are sometimes unmasked, boy. Your short bout of writing to the heavens and beyond is such a time. You want something real to think about watch the news tonight. The doctor did call to say your esophagus and stomach band are fine. Later. Post. – Amorella

       1638 hours. I am thankful I don’t have to have that bloody stomach band taken out. I’m taking a break from Grandma 14 for the rest of the day. I’ll figure out the textual problems tomorrow. 

       2018 hours. We watched ABC, NBC and BBC-America. News reality is similar almost every day. The format and presentations rarely change. The news themes rarely change. Why is this that we rarely change either? Is it our format, our bodies and minds that direct us onto habitual paths? Rarely our hearts and souls move us, but this is where the change really is – in our heartsansouls. Why is this? And, who leads, the heart or the soul? Does it make any difference, which one leads? Is it a mix, a combination of heart and soul and mind that makes the difference?     
 

       Later, dude, but this is enough for tonight. Post. - Amorella

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