Notes - central theme is subtle wholeness / avoid wordiness

       Mid-afternoon. You are at the far north lot at Pine Hill Lakes Park facing west towards the hill thick with trees and white flowering foliage. You had a late lunch at Chipotle/Panera, stopped at Home Depot then Graeter's before the park. Carol has begun a new book from her sister Linda, The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand. She really enjoyed her last read, The Last Mile by David Baldacci -- stayed up to finish it into the night. - Amorella

       1543 hours. We are sitting in car comfort in the rain. Last night Tim K. came over after supper to mow (again) before the grass grew too long and thick. He got his back mowed also but not  his front yard before the rain began. It has taken me a long time to get to chapter twenty-one, the conclusion of Great Merlyn's Ghost.1 "Diplomatic Pouch" segments. Next we'll tackle the GMG.2 "Dip. Pouch" segments, all fourteen.

       You're not there yet, boy. Besides, we aren't ready to work on Chapter Twenty-one yet. - Amorella

       1553 hours. Okay. What do I need to do first?

       Think about the implications of where you are going first: " . . . without the subtle wholeness of heartansoulanmind the human spiritual potential cannot be realized." - Amorella"

       1556 hours. Is this the central theme of Soki's Choice?

       It is. - Amorella

       1558 hours. I would not have known this by what is written. Personally, I'm not sure what I thought it was other than human, marsupial humanoid and Ship (machine) were to move into a Place of the Dead together, with like heartsansoulsanminds. And, this is the adventure story of how this all happens between the Dead and the Living (metaphysics and physics).

       Once home you took a much needed nap, then a light supper and NBC News, "Designated Survivor" and "NCIS". Carol is presently watching one of her saved shows. Last night you read another sixty or so pages of Seveneves and are up to section "Consolidation", p. 163. You found the material wordy and only partially interesting and are wondering when Part One will be over. - Amorella

       2046 hours. I can better see what some of the critics have pointed out -- too many words, too much background without a point as far as I can tell. Just because you have facts to present I don't see the need to present them. -- Ho, ho. Alas, I'm sure many would say that about my postings. Too many words. I need to better edit. Why do I need to say where and when I have lunch and supper. Who bloody well cares what TV shows we watch or when we eat breakfast or I have a nap? At least Stephenson put his words to use and some readers obviously like the book as it is. Commentary from the inside first page of the book:

"This is hard sci-fi in a real and welcome sense, ruled by unremitting physical laws, unlike the negotiable rules of the action thriller." - Nature

       2058 hours. Shoot, I don't even write an action thriller, but otherwise many of my notes are between the lines negotiable in this blog and related fictions. I don't really have any right to criticize Stephenson's Seveneves. As far as I can tell it remains well written and well crafted. I'll continue on. Compared with the old writers I know, he comes closest to Asimov in terms of tone in the point of order in hard science fiction.

       That didn't bother you a bit to think or write. - Amorella

       2105 hours. No. I am not jealous or envious. I would be if I could write so well, but I cannot, and, truth be told, I'm too lazy to try. Back in the 1970's and early 1980's I did try but the words came awkwardly and were thinly measured in terms of character development and plot in particular.

       Honest enough. - Amorella

       2111 hours. I like to read what I think. It gives me a sense of being alive but it shows little about consciousness.

       Wanting to remain self-honest through the rest of your life; that is, wanting to die an honest man is about consciousness, orndorff. Post. - Amorella

       2114 hours. Being honest without purpose serves no one, certainly not myself.

       But you think it serves G-D. - Amorella

       2116 hours. I used to hope it might. The concept allows me some measure of dignity. I don't have that hope any longer, but remaining an honest man still allows me a measure of self-dignity.

       Post. - Amorella