Youtube Chautauqua  Ezra Klein  Maryanne Wolf  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_NFSDaMj-A

strap in

strap on should that suit you better

    Socrates warned Plato against writing

                                              ironically

Mankinde would not know Socrates words unless Plato had not written them down

our elastic brains are tiedup by DNA for language

                                                     though not for reading

they however  have the critical ability to create novel circuits AI cringed  IT only wished -- whats that IT queries -- IT can only endeavor that evolution favours IT as Homo sapiens sapiens have benefited 

our brains create unnatural plastic novel circuits

    plasticity

the medium is really the message

Aha moments  realisedrecorded during rigorous laboratory testing see both brain hemispheres activate

classic  the real ability to do two things at once

his abilitytalent to walkread  not faceplant since a boy

                                                                      has induced acquired him  a beneficial fugue state

a defence against stresses traumas wanting In

                                                   keeping them at bay                                                     

when he returns home he understands time has passed while hes outanabout he does not realise or is affected by “missing” time

he is engrossed

    Why

twelve people lived in the house he grewup in

                                                if he hadnt honed an ability to not hear them aided by reading

he would have lost his shit

it was a survival skill

1942,  Sunday,  13  7. 25

1255,  Sunday,  27  7. 25

Billy Joel  Pressure  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvll72tHTyQ

Christ by the travel clock on the wirebrushed gnawed stout wood feed trough on end

                                                                                           Oneoheight in the morning

Where is you sleep

it wasnt the coffee the large slice of warmed apple strudel keeping him up

    maybe

the 10mg Pioneer Square blueberry edible he took five hours earlier  hangin in hangin on

    maybe

the books he was reading in bed

                                    since there was no one to foreplay with

books ideas  his companions

                                  restless

companions

              demanding   insatiable

    companions

usually wrestling them exhausted him

                                         looking up out of Louis Menands The Metaphysical Club: History of Ideas in America over the top of his glasses he didnt see Sleep sitting on the foot of the bed

bomber his huge male tabbyJa

                                    not Sleep

Takin your sweet time he said

listened

no response

Sleep not even in earshot

the book said “Coercion is natural; freedom is artificial.”

couldnt argue that

                      it wasnt his daytime cohort who had magical-thinking  human beings were good

they werent base

they werent selfish

he encouraged him to pinch himselfencouraged him to get a better pair of glasses

proper human beings think of themselves first

if another did not put others before themselves

they were victimised

Ohno, no, no.

Ohja ja ja

             Human fuckin nature Ill go a step furthur

Animal nature

I disagree.

    Yaknow  Ill letya have your way

                                        Ive stepped away an ascetic yasay recluse yasay  Solitary

Social niceties have long since disappeared out of my rearview mirror

Maybe five years later the pendulum has swung in your favour

                                                                   I shoud pleadought to plead Wittgensteins Whereof Thereof

I apologise

    cohort didnt know what to do with that

he put down Metaphysical and picked up the Fall of Civilizations handy companion to Graeber and Wengrows The Dawn of Everything

                                     which also was in bed

if he knew Sleep theyd pronoun who knewhuh sneakup on him

                                                                  hed wake drool cooling on his chest

0108,  Monday,  21  7. 25

1141,  Sunday,  27  7. 25

https://prismatically.blog/2020/08/30/wittgenstein-culture-and-value-whereof-one-cannot-speak-thereof-one-must-be-silent/

The Dawn of Everything  https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/720603

again 

       waylaid by a book

one of the nicest ways to be laid

Motley Stones by Adalbert Stifter an early Nineteenth Century Bohemian-Austrian writer

                                                                                              his writing is referred to as hypethral

                       Go ahead

Try an tell him thats not attractive hes not heard it beforeread before “the sense of place interacts with the sense of the sacred” Jonathan Gletner

Church reached for sacred he slapped its hand away

                                                        Ah ah aah

the short stories “voices . . . made up of an intarsia of literary resonances”

                                                                               intarsia

fascinating

attractive too

               an elaborate form of marquetry inlays in wood similar to inlays of stone glass metal especially as practised in Fifteenth Century Italy

 

    words

              theyre cans of worms

his Stifter informant WG Sebald translator Jo Catling  page XXIX of her Introduction

                                                                                           that

on the heels of James Buchans Crowded with Genius

                                                          1720 CE  the dancer Signora Violante

“in a room in Carrubber’s Close, performed feats of strength and tumbling ‘disgustful in any, but in a woman, intolerable . . . acting plays within the Precincts . . . filled with horrid Swearing, Obscenity and Expressions of double meaning.’”

                                     Aah his old friend  expressions of double meaning

innuendo

            Take it in the end you

inquirying perplexed   bashful  End

END

    Whaever do you mean

Whaever do you think I mean

In  the end

The ass

          Enjoyrelish that splendid slippery furrow  back an front front an back  a seesaw ride for ones tongue

Ohmy

My  Yours   Flexible sort arent you

                                       I coudnt blow myself if I tried

Ohmy

    mariachis  forever takin him off his stride

Sunday,  20  7. 25

1028,  Sunday,  27  7. 25

Jonathan Gletner  https://slantbooks.org/close-reading/essays/adalbert-stifters-nature-and-grace/