read by Patrick Healy
(cf http://www.themodernword.com/Joyce/audio_5.html).
It seems to be exactly the sort of text that is best
enjoyed read aloud. Perhaps time after time.
I'm also looking at "Nietzsche's Philosophy of Nature
and Cosmology". Thinking about the things that
go beyond language.
(cf http://mtprof.msun.edu/Win1993/PlankRev.html)
My current thought is that "intelligence" (sometimes
not so intelligent) exists in "interfaces". Or put it
another way, that Coincidence, Causality, and
Correlation, are completed by Creativity.
But.
The "but" is that once some rather concrete idea
is enunciated, it creates some requirement to
actually do work. That seems to create pressure.
It's not as though we have infinite attention (right?)
(cf http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/468828.html)
It's interesting to mix these things in with the legacy
of the Beats
(e.g. http://www.stevesilberman.com/celestial/)
which just aren't going to pay the bills no matter
how "true" they are -- though perhaps by simply
shifting perspective a bit ("trendiness not
timelessness") we can recover some Sex Pistols-like
/currency/.
I mean, thinking about how focus can be quite nice:
how in order to focus at all, one in fact needs to be
reasonably calm (not hyperfocused; not too "distracted"
either). In the words of Susanna Kaysen,
«freedom was the price of privacy»
but equally, /privacy is the price of freedom/.
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