[plase use the BACK key to return to your previous pageLinear Thought
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Write drunk;
Edit sobre;
- from my old days at UPI; computer geek.
(United Press International)
Linear Thought
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Somatics
(Or the flows of linearity within the body
itself; the "soma")
We take it as read that thought may well be
non-linear. It is impossible to consider that
with as many neural fire-ings going on in our
tiny little 3-pound universe, that our stream
of consciousness (no matter how focused we
might seem) is in fact a very chaotic (and
indeed quantum-dependent) process.
Oddly enough the body seems a very linear
process on the whole working in harmony - if
we may for the moment consider all of the myriad
processes occuring at the *molecular* level as
simply being machines running in such a manner
such that their "purpose" is to maintain a
stable homeo-static level of exixstance. The
inter-action of these machines (eg, the whole
host of bacteria on the surface of our skin
"scrubbing" out foreign bacteria, UV-light
damage, dry/cold/wet/etc conditions of the
air immediately surrounding us.
Thus, as i type these words the whole host of
physical processes going on of which i am (at
times) only vaguely aware of are "supporting"
this process of thought/production. As if the
body itself has a purpose: To be able (for this
particular span of time) to allow me to create
text and thus transfer ideas from my brain
(mind?) to this "paper" (notepad program).
And of course, all of the very non-linear
"things" occuring within and without. Forcing
me to re-focus my attention again and again.
Rubbing my left eye as it is watering a bit,
the little ceramic space heater over to the
right of my foot - thus warming one side of
my body while the other is quite a bit chilly.
Now (for waht ; for what ever reason) rubbing
my right eye - and this to say nothing of my
aching back (v. slight; but there none-the-less)
and the (need to space up the page to continue
writing), etc, etc.
Inter-viening blurble 1
Not knowing where/how to begin - i'll just
jump in: In one of thrift stores (mainly
looking for something to buy and read while
my mother shopped for things), i came across
a very nicely bound copy (Houghton Mifflin
re-print) of Tolken's Lord of the Rings; vol. 1.
And bought it ($1 - imagine that; marked so
low since it was in the "children's" book area).
And a lady and her daughter popped into that
area and the daughter was asking if she might
get a "chapter book". So, i had to ask:
"What IS a chapter book?
I kept hearing that term..."
And her daughter proceeded to explain to me
about Chapters 1, 2, and three (as counting
numbers) and picked up a novel and said,
"Like this; most thick books are chapter
books". And her Mom said, "It's to keep them
from reading books with just one word on a
page."
Hmmm.
So, this has (clearly) stuck in my mind since
it's now some 12 hours later - my insomnia
kicking in and waking me up at 3 in the morning.
So, we go back to...
Words
(or the text as it plays through forming
a "creative" work)
The new-world poet/librarian Jorge Luis Borges
considers this several times in his fictions;
eg, "the book of sand" and of course the now
legendary "The Library of Babel".
As i was typing that above, i wrote
considers tis several tmes in his fictnis;
et, eg, the book of time, and of course t
h now legnedar
...
And with nume[o]r[ou]s back spces [..aces] and
such produced the [ear]]m linear text as you
see it above; ie,
The new-world poet/librarian Jorge Luis Borges
considers this several times in his fictions;
eg, "the book of sand" and of course the now
legendary "The Library of Babel".
(the indented text using "cut and paste; via
ctrl-c, ctrl-v)
As a pristine element of thought. Hardly that.
And yet, this format (using a clunky old lap
top - with my optical mouse on the fritz - is
quite about as NON-linear a creative tool as
one could want.
So, what of the hand-wir [wri tten] journal?
Much the same, but with more control, we sketch
along with our pen (pencil?) and scratch out
(erase?) the thing here or th[ere] that we
changed our mind on. One only has to look at
(as in "one only need look at") Beethoven's
music pages with their numerous changes -
and he purportedly changed music in his mind
even as he was conducting it; the new score
"appearing" in his mind even though it was
*supposedly* fixed on the page before him and
replicated (and how accurately was that done?
we remember Sonenfelder ??sp?? and his happen
chanse invention of lithography while approaching
the very problem of producing musical scores).
Or the example of extant (existant made "is") copies
of various poet's text works; eg, Sylvia Plath,
or Greenberg, etc) where in some cases it took
YEARS to create a specific poem; Others took
only as long as it took to scritch the pen
across the page. And the we find things like
this:
Shall I take thee, The Poet said
To the propounded word?
Be stationed with the Candidates
Till I have finer tired -
The Poet searhed Philology
And when about to ring
For the suspended Candidate
There came unsummoned in -
That portion of the Vision
The Word applied to fill
Not unto nomination
The Cherubim reveal -
-- Emily Dickinson's Poem's
(Final Harvest,
ed/sel by: Thomas H. Johnson)
[the above text via the following operations:
Clicked on BEK-SOL-3 jump page (local
html page on my laptop)
Skimmed along the links to: INDEX
Clicked on that (the TIME LINE) came up,
Selected the link: ART-SQUEEK
Clicked on the link: POETRY and sech
Scrolled all the way down (the old MAC-2001
pages didn't have my nice [^^buttons] at the
top yet))
to the bottom of the page,
Clicked on: Back to the Poetry Page
Scrolled up to the top; where "I KNEW" was
a copy of o the poem by Emily...
Cut and paste; again via my mouse-click-drag
and ctrl-c/ctrl-v \soperations)
hmmmm. So in order to "produce" this page, (so far)
i've created the following "chaff" --
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