Belated

"Every book I read is one that I now can't write," he fumed.

Behind on their Reading

What if Plato et al were to be brought back to life? First off,
they'd have some reading up to do.

story I believe

the story I believe
is like how much land
does a man need
you start out anxious
and greedy to know it
reciting breathless
to persuade others
but it outpaces you
and the sun is setting
on your attempt
it's precious, this story
and it outpaces you
forever beautiful

truth to be told

I'm beginning to think everything, but everything, may be true.

Crying

He cries
That's so sweet
But every night?
I just want the sex
Hold the sauce

dangling cause, dramatic irony, dramatic tension, telegraphing

As I think about these elements, in relation to reading War & Peace,
and how everything was prepared and dramatic tension finally
introduced and ramped up with the mention of Count Bezhukov's will, I
see how in fact simple it can be. I've known all this by instinct,
yet never in such stark terms. But the thing that binds them, and
that is accomplished prior to the dramatic tension is the assignment
of sympathies and antagonisms. This is something I've always bridled
a bit against, as the manipulation can be killing. In the wrong
hands it usually is. Challenge is to get it right, to keep faith
with whatever lives in your motive for getting it down on paper.

Movie: The Queen

(Cobble Hill Cinema ~11/15/06) Was admiring of the simplicity of it,
although maybe it fell short of the greatest insights as a result.
Mesmerized by performance of actor who played Blair. Helen Mirren
worked at something minimal that worked well. The queen's husband's
part was played a bit too over the top and obvious, and smarmy Prince
Charles maybe too. Most effective scene was where she paid her
respects, finally, to Diana and had to confront the horrible notes
about herself, subtly then reversed by the kid giving her flowers.
It the climax of this modest film and didn't fail to move. Oh, I remember what I was going to say--the scene where she's left alone and sees the stag (later killed) somehow missed the mark. Too planted, not present enough. Would be good to figure out why.

A Defense of Art, of sorts...

I'm the reason the world is worth preserving! he snorted.

Adaptability

The thing about our being so adaptable. We could be born into any
world, no matter how fantastic, and would take it for granted. This
might explain the persistence of culture as nurture, the staying
power of so many elaborate beliefs. Born and reared by them we know
no better, yet they become us, they bring us full circle, unless we
happen to witness the certain amount of ruin they may cause, as
happens more and more today on an Earth with fewer and fewer shadows.

In class this AM

She looks around smiling and with excitement at the antics of some of the other kids. There's no envy there, just a selfless shared enthusiasm.

20 yrs

It's been that long. There was love and there was desire to negotiate (ongoing), and family to create (also ongoing). These are of course the things most to live for, and out of which the only good can come. It took me time, but now here I am, ready to engage again. 12/5/06

Raising Kids

Something about raising kids as a blessing because it certainly keeps you insulated from wondering what it's all about (life, that is, and if you haven't quite sewn that question up..) So when the terrors come back to you at least they're novel and so have a kind of beauty about them. You haven't been so cozy with the terrors as to make them agonizingly static; possibility is still engendered by the fear.

Born Adaptors

The thing about our being so adaptable. We could be born into any world, no matter how fantastic, and would take it for granted. This might explain the persistence of culture as nurture, the staying power of so many elaborate beliefs. Born and reared by them we know no better, yet they become us, they bring us full circle, unless we happen to witness the certain amount of ruin they may cause, as happens more and more today on an Earth with fewer and fewer shadows.

Hart and Sevi - Halloween Night '06

Post-trick or treating...

Adks Shots

the answer

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I figured as much, she said.

retarded

I'm retarded standing up
Somewhat less so in my lair