he didnt like to refute someone who was deadwho couldnt refute him

                                                                              however

safety in numbers

the score 1 – 0

one alive nil dead

                    harsh                                                                         

though confoundingly correct

    Walter Benjamin

he wrote in Theses on the Philosophy of History

                                                   The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized WRONG wrong   pops like paparazzi shooting glammedup fish-in-a-barrel celebrities dressed for an evening out bedazzling on the Red Carpet  WARNING:  His myriadpast contains flashing light/bright/strobe lights that may trigger a seizure if he had epilepsy – doesnt.  Viewer discretion is advised.   and is never seen again.

Never

doesnt inhabit his lexicon

                            occasionally not ever

he witnesses his past his memories via cinematic replays

                                                             he summonsesem

plays seesem againanagain an  again

Benjamin

            sorrowfully  committed suicideoverdosing on morphine or was murdered by Stalin agents

coin toss

    scoreboard above may come into play yet again

 

his point

          given Benjamins preoccupation the era a Jew in Germany  the rise of Nazism

                                                                                               understandably

he contemplated mortality

however to render his past memories  to flashes in a pan disappeared forever

    only when the projector dies

                                   do memories  disappear   forever

  

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1559,  Monday,  14  7. 25

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/other/43071/walter-benjamins-genius-for-surreal-visions

Im stoned

That was the idea.

Were seein Aristotle through

I don’t think that sentence makes any sense.

Ja it does

             Sensense  Dropped the T excised the C for an S

    We’re seeing through Aristotle?

In a manner of speaking

How manner what manner?

Manner or manor

                    After all Aristotles thought is an edifice

What?

          Comeon man I’m high, ought to be kind to small animals.

M  A  N  N  E  R     M  A  N  O  R

Now you want me to spell?

I spelled

           I differentiated for you

Whatever.

               I’m not keeping up slow down.

You followed the two

    I think . . I think I did.

                              Aristotle. A manor   M  A  N  O  R?

Excellent

And why we you talking about him?

Look at you excelling with your pronouns

    We’re not going there are we?I don’t want to go there I’m binary boy girl all that confuses lemme enjoy my high.

I was complimenting you

Lemme be like you no compliments, at least right now.

                                                           Finish your thought process.

Aristotle

That one.

Was tha an order

Certainly sounded like it, didn’t it?

Or panic

Certainly sounded like it, didn’t it?

                                       This boat come with lifesavers?

Lifesavours  But of course

 

You just slip something past me?

Did I

Please. I’m beggin’ youhave pity.   Aristotle.

    He said there were three kinds of life

Were entertaining one

He didn’t say turn on, tune in, drop out?

Leary woud liked you likened him to Aristotle

I was leery.

Im ahead of ya

FACK.

Set

On my mark.

GO

 

What are we talkin’bout?

    Aristotles three lifes

I’ll shaddup.

 

A productive life

Awright.

A life of reflection contemplation

Awright.

Antha were currently enjoying

                                   Can you say

Did Aristotle encourage people to get high?

Possibly

           A life of leisure

Man.

       Cat was cool.

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1230,  Monday,  14  7. 25

    Ironic

Are we playing?

Do you want to

You want to.

It won’t cost me clothing, will it?

he laughed

Like I’ll ever forget that.

You were a good sport

                          Too bad not a better pool player

You hustled me.

You were worth hustlin

                            An look at us now two peas in a pod

Still fuckin’ like we did then.

Ja well Ya raise my ardor an once hard got to do something with it cant let it go to waste

Waste not want not.

Grrl after my own heart

Among other nether parts.

Arya gettin more clever

Ya must be rubbin’off on me.

                                 laugheddimplesdove You’re welcome to rub me raw anytime.

But we’re gettin’ off the beaten path.

Ironic.

Ja

You want I say or are you saying?

Whawoud you like

You began.

              I’d really have to dig to come up with something ironicwasn’t on my list of things to do this morning over coffee at the kitchen table.

Love it when you talk dirty to me

It’s been a stout table. Has taken a lickin’ an still keeps tickin’.

I love you

I love you.

    Ironic

Socrates

Will I be able to keep up? Philosophy’s your game.

You know Socrates

He was Plato’s teacher, mentor.

You know

Awright.

Socrates said about writing

Uhoh.

Tha writing will produce forgetfulness in those who learn to use it

                                                                      They will not practise their memory

You belie that.

Pain fixes memory  Sets it

Yes.

Ironically we woudnt have Socrates words if Plato didnt writeem down

 

    again

                they didnt break the kitchen table

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1147,  Monday  14  7. 25

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3439#:~:text=In%20the%20process%20Socrates%20faulted,understanding%2C%20rather%20than%20true%20understanding.

You Chautauqua last night?

Look at you

              Im rubbinoff onya

Come on. Chautauqua plays nice in the mouth it’s fun to say.

Of which youve not said before until I shared with you

                                                              Kudos me  Be honest

she put her handsup as if in a robbery

                                   Kudos.

Thank you

              It didnt hurt tha much

What a piece of work.

    Ja I did

You

No.  I meant to.

Distracted

Fuckin’ machine.

Rabbithole

No.  Wormhole to another galaxy.

    Not necessarily a bad thing

Not necessarily a good thing when you lookup and it’s dark outside and when you went in it was it light.

Addiction

Would you quit with that?

When you quit refusing to acknowledge its not

                                                   No shame kiddo  Untold tens of millions are

    But you’re not.

I saw it comin

                Benefit of workin in the industry when cellphones first hit

Im grateful

    Grateful.   And other people who worked with you?

Guzzled the Kool-Aid

                       As I say    No shame

 

So no.  I didn’t Chautauqua last night.

                                          You?

You know me  Obsessive

Is that better than addicted . . or worse?

In the eye of the beholder

                             Beyond the Matrix Theory of the Mind

Ohshit. That sounds fascinating.

It was

        At one point Klein relates AIs hallucinate                                             

Distracting

Entertaining

Lying

Lying?

Posting false footnotes  References didnt exist

No.

      Tell me you’re kiddin’.

Look at my puss

                   Not to mention your witchy intuition

Antha I woudnt lie to you

That’s awful.

Not necessarily

                  Its tryin to please its consumer

Tellinem wha they want to hear 

Might even conceive ofem as little white lies

    Whas a fuckin machine know

My Chautauqua

                                       

1715,  Sunday,  13  7. 25

1040,  Monday,  14  7. 25

Ezra Klein  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBIAc3d7Iu0

Is that pointed  is that a black eyewhat the hell happened to you? saw you two days ago.

I went to the zoo

 

    You went to the zoo.

That’s where you got your black eye?

Yup

 

    Is this gonna be like pulling teeth?

To me itll feel like it

Come on. Spill.

This goes no furthurstays between us

                                         Ive not shared with anyoneunlikely I will if Im not asked about it

Gets around  Itll be you   Ill come for ya

grimaced  Touchy. Touchy.

Youve no ideaChrist

 

    noting his agitation  When you’re up for it.

Ja

        Cant make this shit up

I’m sure stranger things have happened.

Ive had my share of strange but this   episode  takes the cake

                                                                   Crazynuts

It’s not too bad a black eye. If you were more conscious ‘bout it I’d bet you could touch it up with makeup, hide it.

No  Youre right 

                 Its not obvious

Actually  

           Accountability

You and being held accountable.

nodding  Ja This country   We need more of it

                                                                Im stallin

No hurry.

    At the zoo the gorilla the huge male

The one that came a year or so back, had been trained in signing.

Thas the one  Goliath

I’ve read a few articles about him.

                                     He’s a star.

He is

                                                             

So ya know how when I talk my hands go                                                            

Yeah. Doing it now.

he looked down at them Im not even aware

                                              I am

You are.

Ja

        I went to the zoo to see Goliath

You’ve been learning to sign?  chuckled

No hellno scarcely an eyeroll but an eyeroll nonetheless

                                                               Ive been told hes a specimen Something to behold

Hes maintained in a barless enclave  a moat between visitors an him

    Hes amazing

I’ve heard tell.

Ya got go

                     We made eye contact

He came to the edge of the moat directly across from me

I called him by his name

He grunted when I did

                         

Obviously understanding his name is Goliath.

Obviously

             There werent but  fourfive people around

They werent invested

    So I began talkin to him

What did you talk to him about?

His caretakerslashtrainerslashsigner Steve

                                             I asked if Steve was takin good care of him

He did that knucklerock forward gorillas do

I took tha tha he agreed

Sounds reasonable.

I thought we connected

                             He certainly seemed involvedcant remember all tha came out of my mouth

Hands going I suppose. When animated your hands keep up.

I suppose they do

No suppose they do.

Awright  No supposing

As our conversation interaction continued he became increasingly animated

                                                                                      And at some point

I must have crossed him

Crossed him?

No longer animated  Agitated

How so?

Because he was at the edge of the moat he couldnt rush me as we understand they do

Bluffs.

Sometimes

              Obviously because of his confines he cant

Had no idea why

Really really irritated

 

 

    Motherfucker

Picks up a desiccated turd

Not small by any means

AnIm tellin ya

Lefthanded

Hurled it  Artfully    At me

 

    Your blackeye

                        how he suppressed the yawplocked down  sported a pokerface   he had no fuckin idea

My   Blackeye

      

1828,  Sunday,  13  7. 25

0913,  Monday,  14  7. 25

Bushman  https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/bushman-gorilla