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http://etepsed.wordpress.com/weirdmonger-wheel-2/ Massive ‘Weirdmonger Wheel’ (inaugurated in 2004) is today re-opened to slow my pace down so that ebooks can keep up with me! It’s still free.
This to celebrate the discovery (by CERN Zoo) of the Higgs Boson next week.</P>
'The Virtual Revolution' on BBC2 tonight says World Wide Web was invented in CERN. Seems therefore a good name for the Internet: CERN Zoo?
Dreams are items engendered by an individual’s equally competing ‘sleep’ and ‘waking consciousness’. A balance of you and something else. That is common knowledge.
What isn’t so commonly known is the fact that dreams can be harvested and milked. Not only in the figurative sense of employing them as contents for fictions like this one, but also as real objects that can be handled and squeezed like udders. You see, the actual tension between self and non-self in this way creates a seamless skin-dome upon the flat surface of the dream, thus allowing items of dream to become collected as a finite group instead of infinite items on a never-ending surface ... subsequently for them to become upwardly mobile as well as three-dimensional within the constraints of the sealed space.
Some dreams have bigger domes than others. ... (more)
I had another on-line discussion about the Intentional Fallacy yesterday. I have a book called 'The Verbal Icon' by WK Wimsatt that I first owned in the late sixties, a book sitting, as it happened, on my bookshelf in immediate proximity to 'From Blue to Black', a novel by Joel Lane - which was coincidentally appropriate as the discussion in question was with Joel himself!
I was pleased to find this quote in the Wimsatt book to help demonstrate the point I was trying to make:
"In his essay on 'Hamlet and His problems' TS Eliot finds Hamlet's state of emotion unsatisfactory because it lacks an 'objective correlative', a 'chain of events' which are the 'formula of that particular emotion'. The emotion is 'in excess of the facts as they appear'. It is 'inexpressible'. ... (more)
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My Readings aloud: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/df_lewis_reading_aloud.htm
My reviews: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/recent_reviews_of_books_by_dfl.htm
Cone Zero: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cone_zero_under_way.htm
