After noon local time. Carol has been
washing clothes, etc. all morning. You have not been doing much. – Amorella
1212 hours. No, I have not, mostly
puttering around the house, cleaning up a few things and playing with the cats –
not much sustained focus. Yesternight I decided to put on the top three pieces
of literature that personally effected my life. From deep within came three but
number one was a surprise until I thought about it more. Here is the FB posting
of 17 hours ago:
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After a lifetime of reading and teaching English
and World Literature I have to say the work that has most influenced my
personal life of 74 years is Thorton Wilder's "Our Town" which I
first read as a Junior in high school. Hamlet comes in second and Moby Dick
comes in third. This is a surprise to me.
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1221 hours.
I have 57 likes and 13 comments from former students with some giving the top
three pieces of literature that influenced them. I love my former students. I
am proud of them and humbled that they ever friended me in the first place. Teacher
and student are forever a part of each other’s lives. I would hope mine is a
good part.
1307
hours. I have put drafts together and come up with a raw 2042 words for chapter
one. It appears I will have to begin with Friendly not the Earthlings.
Let it sink in first. We do want to lessen
the Marsupialian characters but we do need to bring up the alternate Earth. We
need to keep this closer to the original Stuck than Merlyn’s dream work. –
Amorella
1312 hours. I will work through three
experimental chapters, that’s it. If it doesn’t come together as a simpler,
cleaner written story than those of Merlyn it’s a no go for me. – rho
You are soon to be off to lunch. Later. Post.
- Amorella
You had a quick lunch at McD’s because
Carol just left for a Blue Ash gathering of old teacher friends. You have been
toying with three plausible chapter one versions to work from. – Amorella
1544 hours. Presently it seems best to
begin with my latest version and adapt the two segments into the tone of the
first chapter of Stuck.
I disagree. – Amorella
1547 hours. I can come up with nothing
else.
Begin with the Soki who understands Mexito,
Friendly and now Diplomat. – Amorella
1549 hours. This is certainly a different
interpretation and perspective. Who is Soki’s audience?
The human element, as it were, in all higher
conscious species of life. In this case Marsupial from ThreePlanets and Humans
from Earth. – Amorella
1554 hours. I will have to think on Soki –
who and what he is and where he is from and why he is here, i.e. who, what,
where, why and how. I don’t really know these things. Plus, I thought it would
be fun to be Diplomat. I have already written from her perspective in Running
Through and Merlyn’s Mind. This is a rather shocking and unexpected
concept, Amorella. I have to think about this. I can’t even remember who you
are in the Merlyn books at the moment. The memory is presently gone – not a
word comes to mind other than ‘the Supervisor’, which doesn’t coincide with the
Soki. (1606)
The Soki is simpler and clearer to envision than
an Angel or angel-like character. He is a manifestation of higher conscious ‘souler’
energy, i.e. spookiness personified. - Amorella
1612 hours.
‘Souler’ is too much.
Otherwise, am I getting through to you? –
Amorella
1613 hours.
Somewhat. This is a mental twist-about. I mean this changes how I was going to
attack this problem of storyline and centeredness. I was thinking that Diplomat
is the ‘pouch’ so to speak, sent as a story to introduce the ‘real-in-a-fiction’
aliens to Earthlings.
I understand, but you needed to have your concept in a readable form. Post. - Amorella
1856
hours. I copied my Word Menu software on ‘The Human Condition’ for helps. It
certainly covers the basics. However, Soki is a manifestation.
Yes, he is, but he is a manifestation within
the mind of a human being, not within the heartansoul of a human character. –
Amorella
1900 hours. I hadn’t considered that.
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manifestation –
noun
an
event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, especially a
theory or an abstract idea: the first obvious manifestations of global
warming.
•
the action or fact of showing an abstract idea: the manifestation of anxiety
over the upcoming exams.
•
a symptom or sign of an ailment: a characteristic manifestation of Lyme
disease.
•
a version or incarnation of something or someone: Purity and Innocence and
Young Love in all their gentle manifestations.
•
an appearance of a ghost or spirit.
ORIGIN
late Middle English:
from late Latin manifestatio(n-), from the verb manifestare ‘make public.’
Selected and edited from British/American software
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You have a way of describing this ‘manifestation
via your experience in a hypnotic trance only in this case it will be in either
Friendly or Diplomat. The sense will be similar – the strongest within Friendly
as when you were taken back to three years of age and how it was. Within
Diplomat it will be weaker such as when you were taken back to the incubator
just after being born. – Amorella
1912 hours. Interesting. They were two
separate hypnotic events but the one at three was much more intense.
It is the interaction within the intensity
of being real that the focus will be more realistic. – Amorella
1914 hours. This reminds me of the studies
I made before flying a single engine craft in Latin America in one of my
non-published books. It was difficult even though I learned to fly via a
computer program. I won’t have that problem with Soki.
Soki treats both women equally but with
respect to their experiences, obviously Friendly has had more as she is much
older as a marsupial. Soki treats Diplomat a bit more like he accepted Mexito;
she is half-human/half-marsupial body wise. – Amorella
1927 hours. This is interesting and already
I am sensing a much more subtle depth, especially in Friendly and Diplomat. A
Bene Gesserit from Dune comes to mind.
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The Bene Gesserit are a
key social, religious, and political force in Frank Herbert’s fictional Dune universe. The group is described as
an exclusive sisterhood whose members train their bodies and minds through
years of physical and mental conditioning to obtain superhuman powers and
abilities that can seem magical to outsiders. Acolytes who have acquired the
breadth of Bene Gesserit abilities are called Reverend Mothers within
the organization's ranks. Some of these fictional powers are analyzed and
deconstructed from a real-world scientific perspective in the book The Science of Dune (2008).
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Wikipedia
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2044 hours.
The Bene Gesserit doesn’t quite fit the bill here.
No. There is no magical superhuman being
here. Soki exists in the fiction, that is, he is more than a manifestation but
less than a ghostly spirit, i.e. Soki is not angelic. The metaphysics is there
but it is within the spirit of humanity (human and marsupial), living and dead.
We don’t go any further to keep the story simple. What do you think? – Amorella
2051 hours. At one time not too long ago I
would say deeper is where I would like to go, but people don’t want to go too
deep, not enough time, not enough sleep; they just want a good story. I guess I
do too, I want a story a few people might read and like, like a few of my
students who liked Stuck and wanted to read a sequel or two that I never
wrote. I overextended into Merlyn metaphysics.
You didn’t know that. It burned you out, or
so it appears. The Merlyn books, notes and drafts are all a part of who you are
now in 2016. You have nothing to prove. The ‘blog’ shows ‘activity’. What else
do you want at seventy-four? – Amorella
2059 hours. I tend to go overboard
sometimes.
Your fingers and brain are in working order,
that is, you have the coordination to type. Post. – Amorella
2102 hours. I’ll take this drafting through three
chapters. Then I will make a decision.
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