Mid-afternoon. Late morning you drove I-275
to Ybor City and headed south towards Pier 7 docking then east to U.S. Rt. 41
and south to Gibsonton (a one time famous sideshow wintering town for the
Ringling Brothers Circus) and east to I-75 and south to Sun City Center. We
drove by with lots of family memories (in Mom and Dad Hammond’s house) in the
St. Andrews subdivision near S.R. 301 on the east side of town. SCC is a
retirement town that has continued to grow tremendously since the Hammond’s
built there in 1979. You stopped at a local Subway for lunch before returning
to Madeira Beach. – Amorella
1549 hours. I am happy to see that we
got over 40 miles per gallon on the trip over and back. Just this morning my
friend Rich Grimsley who owns a 2013 Prius was asking how the mileage is. The
M/G is very delicate, jumping up and down for every slight rise or drop in the
highway. And, I have noticed that the mileage appears to average better by just
turning the cruise control ‘on’ whether it is set or not. Presently I have some
reading to do. The skies are partly cloudy and it is cooler, in the mid to high
sixties; still enjoyable weather. Carol suggested that tomorrow morning while
it is cool we head to the nearest Dunkin Donut and try their holiday treats
(already out) – she’s thinking of peppermint hot chocolate. That ought to be
fun. Linda is coming over tomorrow afternoon also, and we will hit the pool, as
it will have warmed up some by then.
Post.
– Amorella
1945 hours.
Page 89 of Thinking in Numbers chapter, “Are We Alone” begins a good
quotation from Roman poet Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things.
“Since
space lies empty and infinite in all directions and since atoms in countless
numbers fly every which way through its furthest reaches . . . it is utterly
unrealistic to think that ours are the only world and sky to have been born and
that so many atoms outside our world are doing nothing . . . there are other
worlds in other parts of the universe, different races of humans and species of
animals.”
I
read the rest of the chapter but this pretty much says it all to me about
finding alien species in the universe.
On
the bottom of page 145 and continuing on the next page of a chapter titled, “A
Novelist’s Calculus” – Tolstoy in this case – Daniel Tammet suggests – “. . .
like any event in time – cannot be understood with prior assumptions, rules and
theories. Everything has its moment, its context. Earlier, in one state, you
began this essay, and now later on you finish it in another. What do you think?
I cannot tell you. In everyone and everything, the process of change always
asserts its own meaning.”
You are writing down things you agree with,
things that reinforce your own conclusions, old man. What can be learned from
this? – Amorella
2009 hours. My old colleague at Escola
Graduada ‘Graded’, the math chair and a well-known chess champion in Brazil,
Vladimir Rodionoff, used to say to me that one learns to play chess in the losing,
not in the winning. You are right. As I read through these chapters in Thinking
in Numbers I am finding myself less interested. He is making points but the
similarity in each chapter’s efforts is beginning to bore me.
When I think about this, in itself, I need
to watch that my similarities in each chapter of the book do not tire the
reader. I have not thought about this before (at least I cannot remember
thinking from this perspective). I thought by keeping each chapter of Great
Merlyn’s Ghost tight with four sub-units tightly written greater clarity would
materialize.
Read
the rest of the book but do not write any more in part. Note a page or two to
refer to later but move on. You do
the enlightening; don’t let Daniel Tammet do it. Do you understand where I am coming
from, boy? – Amorella
2032 hours. I am arrogant in my
thinking. I want to write something that matters, that makes a difference in
the reader’s mind just like I wanted to make a difference in my students’
minds. This afternoon we saw a homeless person on the beach; he had the
appearance of a homeless person in any case. Carol suggested he was sick, I
thought he was trying to sleep in spite of the cold winds. Carol wanted me to
take him some money to buy food with. I did not want to do this but I do not
understand why I didn’t because I would not have minded giving him a twenty if
I thought it would help him. I didn’t do it though and in the wait until my
conscious got the better of me and I went to the balcony door – and he was
gone. Who knows what happened to him. I am sure a twenty would have helped. I
am angry with myself. I feel we are put here to learn to help one another, this
is the way people naturally feel better about themselves. It is spiritual not
materialistic. I’m done ranting.
You were about to write ‘sorry’ but did not.
You are sorry. You are mostly sorry because you do not think you make any
difference in anyone’s life today. You don’t challenge anyone to think and grow
but yourself (through the books and blog). You debate even adding a photo of
tonight’s sunset because the photo (usually with iPhoto enhancement) is the way
you see the sunset not the way others watching would see it. Do you have a
problem with my words here boy? – Amorella’
2047 hours. No. In some ways though my
photos of the sunsets are dishonest. I see things such as sunsets with a
vividness; slightly askew from objective reality.
Tonight let’s conclude with both, the
enhanced reality first, then the shot as it was. I’ll choose the photo. –
Amorella
** **
13 N 13 – enhanced sunset
13 N 13 unenhanced sunset
** **
My question is: why would you continue to
choose the enhanced photo? – Amorella
2100 hours. It is more real.
Were you dead and I were an Angel of G---D
standing before you which sunset photo would you choose boy? Amorella
2103 hours. The one that is more real
even though I could not articulate what makes it more real to me. If you were
an Angel of G---D what I would say would not be more real than what you as an
Angel of G---D would hear.
Use the title you have. Post. - Amorella
