or at least so typical of me, that i would cull a collection of quotes that resonated in me and then present that as the bulk of a blahg meant to be myself talking. well i guess i am a collector after all, never of objects but always of lyrics. i am of course emo enough that i obsess over song lyrics as well, but the blahgging of these seems too cheesy even for me. because the lines from these books are really a careful collection, there is a center that is pulling them into this, and it is helping to write its own book as they draw together, and really making a map quite accurate, with which i hope to work further later, and the process of the practice is helping me to focus on the trip itself.
weather forecast: spectral rain
Those with distorted orbits of all kinds…Come in from the spectral rain…(Madame Psychosis in Infinite Jest)
p. 189
p. 189
from the list of problems that perhaps sleep will resolve
(the Lover’s) the struggle between a present passion, a present beloved (her image), and the memory of a dead person.
from the museum of eterna’s novel
from the museum of eterna’s novel
bitterness for three sleepwalkers
Quote from ‘Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers’ by Marquez:
“I’m afraid that someone is dreaming about this room and revealing my secrets.”
“I’m afraid that someone is dreaming about this room and revealing my secrets.”
Which reminds me of when D was around 4 years old, telling me that when he has a dream, he knows that somebody else is having it at the same time.
here
http://www.nthposition.com/flowerplacedinacastle.php
also, i found this review interesting.
repetitive ripples
“If we could see the pressure ripples of these non-musical sounds, we would notice that they were very complicated. … The noise ripple shape [of, for example, a door closing] which eventually arrives at the eardrum is extremely complicated because it is made up of a chaotic group of individual ripples which have no relationship to each other. This is true of all noises which are not musical notes. The noise ripple shape which eventually arrives at the eardrum is extremely complicated because it is made up of a chaotic group of individual ripples which have no relationship to each other. This is true of all noises which are not musical notes.
“Musical notes are different from non-musical noises because every musical note is made up of a ripple pattern which repeats itself over and over again. … To be a musical note, it doesn’t really matter how complicated the individual ripples are, as long as the pattern repeats itself. Our eardrums flex in and out as the pressure ripples push against them. However, our eardrums can’t respond properly if the ripple pattern repeats itself too quickly or too slowly – we can only hear patterns which repeat themselves more often than twenty times a second but less often than 2o,ooo times a second.” From How Music Works by John Powell
so creating a pattern=making music?
a poem concerning sheep
appearing in nth position-should be up in the next few days.
it’s all educational
how promising you are as a student of the game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. nets and fences can be mirrors. and between the nets and fences, opponents are also mirrors. this is why the whole thing is scary. this is why all opponents are scary and weaker opponents are especially scary.
see yourself in your opponents. they will bring you to understand the game. to accept the fact that the game is about managed fear. that its object is to send from yourself what you hope will not return.
Infinite Jest p. 176
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