06 November 2016

Notes - sleeping on it


       Sunday evening. Linda, Bill, Carol and you just finished watching NBC News. Earlier everyone enjoyed The Columbia in Ybor City one more time – excellent food, excellent setting. Yesterday you forgot to mention that in the morning Linda, Carol and you drove to the cinema to see “Inferno” and tomorrow morning Linda, Bill, James and you are planning to see “The Accountant”. – Amorella

       1917 hours. It has been a good family day. I had a late afternoon nap and feel better low back-wise. Carol and Linda are reading and Bill is watching TV in the bedroom as are Jean and James in their bedroom watching a cable movie. Jean and Jen have school this week but are off Friday, 11 November – it used to be called Armistice Day when we were kids.

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Veterans Day is an official United States public holiday, observed annually on November 11, that honors military veterans, that is, persons who served in the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with other holidays, including Armistice Dan and Rememrance Day, celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of World War I; major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. The United States previously observed Armistice Day. The U.S. holiday was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.

Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day; Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day honors those who died while in military service.

Selected and edited from Wikipedia

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       Presently, you appear interested in working on Soki’s Choice. – Amorella

       1944 hours. I do, but as usual I don’t know where you are.

       Let’s go to Soki’s Address. – Amorella

       2044 hours. A couple of interruptions, but I am to the point where what is left is:
“. . . Diplomat will gain that combination so as to draw from both species unconsciousnesses to progress to an even higher consciousness and she will more readily gain a conscious not only of the Living of both species but also the Dead of both species. – Amorella”

       You are not to the point you think you are – you are beginning to see that this story is more encompusing than you thought. You are also confident that this is indeed a first draft because of the depth humanity has to offer. – Amorella

       2052 hours. Indeed. I don’t know what humanity entails in this book but the focus appears to be centered not on us so much as how humanity as an alien quality, is.

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quality – noun

1 the TV signal is of a poor quality | the quality of life: standard, grade, class, caliber, condition, character, nature, form, rank, value, level; sort, type, kind, variety.

2 work of such quality is rare: excellence, superiority, merit, worth, value, virtue, caliber, eminence, distinction, incomparability; talent, skill, virtuosity, craftsmanship.

3 her good qualities: feature, trait, attribute, characteristic, point, aspect, facet, side, property.

Selected and edited from Oxford/American software

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       Also check your Word Menu 2.5.1. – Amorella

       2113 hours. I found this information on ‘classification’. I don’t know where else to begin in terms of ‘humanity’ as a concept of an existential being, i.e. a substance, as in meaningfulness [and purpose].

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cultural anthropology - study of characteristics, similarities, and differences among various human cultures, based esp. on fieldwork and empirical data

ethnoscience - study of systems and concepts of knowledge and classification of objects and concepts among primitive peoples;

philosophical anthropology - study of basic nature and essence of humankind;

Selected and edited from Word Menu 2.5.1 software.

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       Include purpose with meaningfulness. – Amorella

       2119 hours. Is this a broadening story of what humanity is as told by the Soki?

       Yes. – Amorella

       2122 hours. Is it philosophical fiction?  What general style, that is, what published book shows similarity? Surely something I have read or been introduced to. – I will look for a philosopher who was/is also a storyteller. – I hear a whisper, “As you wish”.

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This famous line is spoken both by Westley, played by Cary Elwes, and by the Grandfather, played by Peter Falk, in The Princess Bride (directed by Rob Reiner, 1987). Of course, it's originally from the book.

When Westley was Buttercup's farm boy, he used to respond to all of her requests with a simple, "As you wish." He'd flash her a sexy little sideways smile and get his eyes to twinkle, and somehow Buttercup would correctly identify this as his way of saying, "I love you."
Really? That was the best he could do?

Later, Buttercup pushes a masked Westley down a steep hill (not knowing who he is), and only realizes his identity when he yells, "As… you… wish!"

Finally, the line gets a shout-out in the frame story of the movie. The whole fantastical Wesley/Buttercup storyline is actually contained within a book that a grandfather is reading to his grandson. At the end of the book, the grandson asks his grandpop if he can read him the story again sometime. 

The granddad says, "As you wish."

Selected from -  shmoop dot com/quotes/as-you-wish.html

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       You think the whisper you heard was from me, the Amorella?

       2155 hours. It was either you or my intuition – the line was the first thing that popped in my mind. If this is so, are saying William Goldman’s The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure is an example of style?

       What do you think? – Amorella

       2159 hours. William Goldman. I will have to sleep on it.

       Post. – Amorella

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