Like Ahab to the Sphinx, Bowman to HAL. Experience to human output, human output.
Here bloodlines bind. Here land is ancestral, a force. Here a bookseller’s landless, laws enshrine energies: energies enshrining action ancient fathers and mothers. Limbs forward, eight, dozens cast forward engrasp his body, arms and legs pulled back or arms and legs thrust forward: body possessed of energies grasped into it.
She read into it. What would come forward from her? He never delves there, floating in timeless space.
EXACAVATION
The Descendant by H.P. Lovecraft
Paint hope as a window wider forward than back. A vision enthused by self-belief. Risk awaits steering audience into power, manipulation: Exclusion. Glorious forward now a threat. To others.
We create and exercise habits in habitable spaces. Inhabitable according to valued habits, habits considered normative. Mme. Swann on her constitutional. What happens inside defines the outside. Marcel himself to the reader. What happens inside defines the outside. Be in the room. Salons hospitable uninhabitable for some. Spaces defining the outside expand now. Spaces defining habitable. So many avenues lined by spectators with no one to gossip with but themselves.
EXCAVATION
Proust In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Mme. Swann with her parasol is magical. Cast forward to times of peace. Fungible projections.
Sartre.
There is another book, another movie (like there is another conversation or options) in the imagination. And if, as Marcel says, the imagination is stimulated by sensuality, then when he finds his conception of aesthetics in disconcert with popular opinion of La Berma, of Bergotte, it is connected with him being unable to recall Gilberte’s face. The other dialogue, the other book, the concern of the moment, closing options, limiting imagination in those times.
Judge the moment, aesthetics, by the feeling which overwhelms -or the focused sensation of a smell, of a memory, of a bite. Be washed over to be in sensuality. To be in imagination, to see possibilities, to hear the unplayed music, “translating an invisible surface.”(p 64) “All work is translation” (paraphrase Tranströmer) the invisible dimensions of the other conversations, of the other options -so personal. Dependent on our senses and the breadth of the connections we make, the dots we can string or feel they can be strung, or even placed in the same room, the same plane, color pallets that match? Or discordant, asynchronous, form a lifetime in a moment or, in a series -even splashed randomly.
EXCAVATION
Proust In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Highest 2 Lowest Spike Lee
And is Charlie Croker Shin Godzilla for the plot -the other plot?
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How much does it require consonance with a fact pattern, with instrumentalist reality? To be effective, one must jump between the two. To find new possibilities, new options or to control. To be fully an artist? Can’t say. But to be responsible and take care of yourself and your family. And to be able to give material comfort to those around you it’s best to be consonant, extremely consonant.
Shin Godzilla and fiction like A Man in Full, offer plot, material and layers enough to read-in narratives and meaning beyond the surface — pattern making in accordance with the viewer/reader’s mental model, unbound, strictly speaking, by the characters and temporal unfolding of the work itself. There feels sufficient intentionality in the material to claim a surface, a plane from which the viewer/reader can spring into creativity –and there feels sufficient implicit action, connection, non-intentional gestalt to warrant this creativity. These are characteristics shared with useful and enjoyable philosophical works -or works which can otherwise be waxed about philosophically. Or minds which can wax philosophically on a wide range of works. Ditto problem solving in business.
One attractive element of Hegel is it reaches to describe that which is beyond or as yet unlanguaged or as yet unknown, un precisely described. It creates a headspace where these type of items or this way of thinking can be explored, imagining various positions, outcomes or dynamics. There is a value in exploring and feeling those explorations, the emotions that come with those positions, outcomes, dynamics, etc. Decision making is improved when various emotions have already been explored. When they can be mined, as well, whether in oneself or in the situation. Advantageous opportunities more readily present themselves when one is prepared and can imagine a broad range of paths, actions.
The optimism of reading philosophy is that it languages a world outside of accurate instrumentality or expediency (correspondence isn’t a requirement of philosophy).
There’s also the slow dopamine train of prediction involved in interpretation of events, then casting it forward. Especially when one becomes entangled in the forward
Entangled, as in quantum (like languaged, it means being part of a unified wave) in that once a position is committed to, it locks in (and locks out) other positions (for that same observation). The trick is not to become entangled. Which probably means staying out of meetings (making it harder to build audience, publish etc). Of course, with multiple worlds, other positions remain fully correspondent. The trick is to be able to jump into those other spaces.
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Sean Carroll, The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics , Chapter 5
In so, it’s easy to blame. When it’s not the structure of consciousness or the structure of reality. Or it is, because of people’s choices. Choose differently and we can make reality different! Besides, it’s good for washing dishes.
Nothingness is an a priori assumption. Nothingness can only be part of analysis if consciousness and being are assumed separable from existence. Like the Copenhagen Interpretation isolating the classical from reality / quantum. It’s separable only by assumption. Experience painted so stems from experiences or choices (literary, personal or critical). In that, Sartre is overcome.
EXCAVATION
Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E. Barnes translation
Sean Carroll, The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics , Chapters 1 and 2.
Reinventing Communication 