You're Love in the Time of Cholera!
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by
sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But in your heart you never give
consent! This creates a strange quandary of what love really means to you. On the
one hand, you've loved the same person your whole life, but on the other, your actions
barely speak to this fact. Whatever you do, stick to bottled water. The other stuff
could get you killed.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
You're Infinite Jest!
by David Foster Wallace
While you1 consider yourself2 to be clever,
there are those3 who think you're just full of yourself or, perhaps worse,
playing a joke4 on everyone around you, and yet you are pretty sure that
you really are that brilliant after all, since people would hardly take the time to
get to know you5 if they didn't care very deeply about what you had to
say to them, to wit, about their lives, their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their
drug habits, and of course what videos6 they prefer to watch, since,
after all, your impressive vocabulary and tendency to go on and on7 makes
you seem superior, able to educate them, and really drive a sense of something
ineffable into their measly little skulls while you are not above making a cheap
gag or really going after anyone or anything or telling them about incredible
futures involving tennis, geopolitics, and
1Meaning you personally, not someone like you or your own
personal daddy, for example.
2As well as you can see yourself, which, frankly, may not be that well.
3Though we wouldn't deign to be so peripatetic as to name them here, mind.
4Jokes, though not common in Victorian England, were known to originate
sometime in ancient history, perhaps as early as the time of Babylon, or even before.
It is thought that the history of the joke plays an integral role in the mindset of
the characters depicted here, though you may disagree at this point, in which case I
am facing quite the dilemma in relaying this narrative, no?
5It is rather time consuming, after all.
6Ha!
7and on and on and on...
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
You're The Metamorphosis!
by Franz Kafka
Though you think you're in the midst of a dream, the fact of the
matter is that your life has become a nightmare. The nightmare at first seems
horrific to you, but you are slowly able to adjust to the facts of the matter
and settle down and make do with what you've been given. There are those that
would say you're pointless and absurd, but you're really just trying to
demonstrate that people can (and do) adapt to anything, no matter how absurd
it is. Not that this will really inspire them to change, because they probably
don't understand.
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15 comments:
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Do you fear that what you say will be used against you? I began originally as a bulwark against forgetfulness, which was punctuated with a date. It was a little imposed, but I felt that if you disagreed, you would indicate that, in some way.
I encounter your silence as, "No, I am not dignifying that", which is the same for reinforcing negative self-appraisals, and for neglecting avenues for potential mutual expression.
This is Exercise 26; not the y-stem, but a variation on a Rebus, of a flywheel integrating a bird nest; I saw one today, on my walk.
http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/1609782/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20141116ys-macroasgleafinfb&utm_campaign=Content&sf5776517=1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3DfyJRIT4jyeDJjU0E0UWpDazQ/view?usp=sharing
Exercise 91.
https://youtu.be/waMtqP1U6-8?si=IneA8eCHFkZKsIlq
https://youtu.be/EPK_F8Yh4Qw?si=AnxVXCV8wJq_ul_E
https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/product/remedios-varo-science-fictions?srsltid=AfmBOop_UZlhJqYg5H60flKvyiyKXHhGBSvirf4UOdXbzs8qOceMeU6y
"Both in our everyday life and the scientific literature, the word 'silence' denotes a broad spectrum of social representations. Therefore, the first author of this paper often refers to silence phenomena to highlight the vast plurality of uses we give to this word in everyday life (e.g., Lehmann, 2016a, 2022; Lehmann & Murakami, 2024). A crucial distinction to begin with is between Silence (as profound interconnectedness), silencing (dynamics in which people exercise power over another), and silences (conversational aspects of social interactions) (Bruneau, 1973; Bruneau & Ishii, 1988; Lehmann, 2022). While some representations of silence are associated with human values such as wisdom or beauty, other experiences can be more traumatic, oppressive, and disempowering (Bruneau & Ishii, 1988; Lehmann, 2022). In the literature, the term silencing refers to the power dynamic that allows one person to 'silence' another (Bruneau & Ishii, 1988). Williams’ (2002) work on ostracism, or why people are excluded and ignored, is one of social psychology’s most important contributions to understanding the dark side of silencing in social interactions. Regardless of the meaning we ascribe to a silent experience, these experiences are not isolated or pure in a strict sense. Silences are fleeting moments of our daily lives. We can cultivate them for short intervals, such as in a minute’s silence at a memorial service; interrupt them, as in the case of interrupting unpleasant pauses in conversation with an impulsive utterance; or extend them, as in the case of participating in a 10-day meditation course.,"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1354067X241312245
I will print it out to read.
The degree of being silenced takes into into account the perceived degree of success in the environment. It is a dynamic process. Aiming a lens on the captivity of gender or class is very well outside of the conditions reinforced by staid norms. The analyst does not want a person translating that life to interrupt the analysis.
To use an example:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AyFl5B2l6pQ&pp=ygUjQW50b24gZGFuaWVscyBibGFjayB3b21hbiBpbnRlcnZpZXc%3D
The point that Thomas Sowell made about the expectation of privilege; henceforth equality seems like oppression is well taken.
Without having a team cohering around shared experiences like marriage and the various family activities, ostracism is not the intention while the inevitable result.
I awoke today wanting to open to Great Expectations (1861-5) about excision and childlessness realized by the convict Magwitch through his adopted son who is sitting among his wretched dead in headstones before becoming his sister's ward. Read and reread in school, the registers of high and low language define a life.
It begins in a cemetery, and I have been preoccupied with finding real estate there as a decision I can make preemptively. The pain of dying, being coded and mutilated through, and even the subsequent Trial for a year bothers me less than being hastily incinerated for convenience again. My responses would not be halting, and the preparations would prevent having someone else to always decide the disposition.
The payment plan would be paid monthly until the final payment, and that would be the end. Buying six years of life like a debt.
I told Sharon at breakfast out before our mutual hair appointments that she could get her coworker's son to write up the bill of sale before he leaves for the commission and for my satisfied mind. She changed the topic.
I told her that yesterday a black family into the third generation of grandkids wailed to shake the roof when their matriarch died after exhaustive measures in the VICU. She was sixty-two dying from an ischemic stroke. I told her that their traditions fizzle out into the less educated and less observant young, so a cultural bastion also died.
I told her if she died that I would accept the judgment like everything else. I might cry in private, but a public display would not happen.
*wretched dead under headstones
This is the seasonal reading of "Aaron was silent" in parashat Shemini (Vayikra 9:1-11-47), which segues into the early summer of Bamidbar, where each original soul leaving Egypt was told they would not enter the Promised Land. Moshe, Aaron and Miriam would not enter either. The Midrash explains about how the common sort accepting spiritual food like maan would nevertheless dig their own graves on that one day, lie in them, and then awake grateful that they were not dead. The film had not run out of film. Another year.
https://books.google.com/books?id=_qsXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA60&dq=Great+Expectations+ashamed+of+my+hands&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj2vJGsztyTAxUeGVkFHcD_HnMQ6AF6BAgKEAM#v=onepage&q=Great%20Expectations%20ashamed%20of%20my%20hands&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=RuQ_AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA233&dq=Great+Expectations+Dickens+%22gravestone%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiK4-q_zNyTAxWGK1kFHT_MO5gQ6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=Great%20Expectations%20Dickens%20%22gravestone%22&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=VPTErXOWuqYC&pg=PA73&dq=The+irony+that+Estella+turns+out+to+be+the+daughter+of+Magwitch&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTjIul2dyTAxU2FVkFHYsuLZcQ6AF6BAgNEAM#v=onepage&q=The%20irony%20that%20Estella%20turns%20out%20to%20be%20the%20daughter%20of%20Magwitch&f=false
https://torah.org/torah-portion/legacy-5786-shemini/
My final thought for today, which has been upsetting, is that I go back to what I see as regret or disappointment on your part regarding the early sketches we conceived. I could have been happy with you, yet I took your silence, and I take it still, as squandering what time there is left to conform to a notion you won't state.
Nobody is a mind reader and there isn't infinite time
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