As I have grown older I have grown more aware of the subtle, sordid private lives of adults. With wastes of broad tracts of memory our loves slowly collapse into the whole that we are--enumerations of relationships. There always remains that inward care for the unblemished acts of lovers, whose confidences can only be kept and cleared away by glances. Reading myself there, without your love, all of the details of your life are trivial, pathetic. How is it that the uninterrupted searching for meaning cleaves us, searching. This time, I will put the fuming resentment down, and like some cities, rebuild my foundations on the extinct volcano.
Tonight, I will return to the road, which is all I can to do to keep from falling over. All I can do is run, that is, falling forward. The body regains its edge by straining and sucking in the cold air. The teeming pause before--this emotional life--is reckoned in the body...becoming flaccid. Now this, is the best mental hygiene.
Ah, so it is a new moon in Scorpio with Sun/Moon conjunct.
"The universal human need to find meaning and purpose in life is stronger and more basic than any attachment to empiricism, logic or objective reality."
I actually haven't gotten around to doing it, though I have not broken my resolution to run every night. I have a history test tonight and a paper to craft on Thanatopsis, and I work.
I spent half the class in Immunology convincing others that fried chicken (like a lot of fat-oil fried animal products) stimulates inflammation, I earned myself a presentation to give Monday.
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.
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
possesses wholly unmerited academic pretensions; examines love as an entomologist; collects haunted dollshouses; notes the lunar phase as regularly as the temperature; peruses field guides; reads like a serial magazine subscriptionist; functions through coffee and "mood" music; draws to the very corners of the page; takes notes on unlined paper; reads poetry as prayer; observes textual authority with the incredulity of fiction; suppresses the smart-ass answer(s); adapts as well as anyone beseiged by her own bibelots; she is a sensation seeker in spite of all of this.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,536608,00.html
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20164
Yes,
"The universal human need to find meaning and purpose in life is stronger and more basic than any attachment to empiricism, logic or objective reality."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/165678/page/1
I actually haven't gotten around to doing it, though I have not broken my resolution to run every night. I have a history test tonight and a paper to craft on Thanatopsis, and I work.
Friday seems likely.
I spent half the class in Immunology convincing others that fried chicken (like a lot of fat-oil fried animal products) stimulates inflammation, I earned myself a presentation to give Monday.
http://intelegen.com/nutrients/Americas_%20Inflammation_Epidemic%20.htm
I will have sources that are slightly less apocryphal...
I garnered lifelong information for that course. My last presentation, among group presentations, was on this:
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/severe-combined-immunodeficiency-scid#:~:text=Severe%20combined%20immunodeficiency%20(SCID)%20is,highly%20susceptible%20to%20severe%20infections.
VPN from Singapore?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C_zdl8gHrhGdW3v-9XWSGJjovjK6SCqw/view?usp=drivesdk
Exercise 90:
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AsA4BY25Ql_1mx1h6W8Y91QaAAL7?e=Vt0EFE
3.6 mile walk last night. I focus on mileage not speed, but a walking pace > 3 mph is the goal.
https://blog.mypacer.com/what-your-walking-speed-says-about-your-health-and-how-long-youll-live/
VPN from Hong Kong?
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