A Pig in A Passage, How The Mad Hounds, Quotes from John Nash, Mechanics of Metaphor
A Pig in A Passage or How The Mad Hounds; Quotes from John Nash. Double Mysteries, showing up in Mechanics of Metaphor -- finding its both relentless and a gest.
Table of Contents
July 15
Pig in A Passage
Usual usual Project List
Pigs in a Passage + how the Mad Hounds
July 13
Scoping the Hydrant
Notes about reworking this poem:
More on Metaphor and compression, Plug Ugly conundrums
Compares crosshatching dimensions to Squeezing Frosting Tube Tighter and Tigher
July 15
PIG IN A PASSAGE
working on three things.
Ambiguity article 3rd Read — collecting quotes. and listing starter topics.
Cioran Journal translation. Gonna do some translations of his journal. Little every morning. three times a week. Probably never finish. Over at my site. Setting up now. But I have on ipad already started it.
Novel, trying to set up a meeting.
I do set up meetings a bound across the junkyard in a way. Receptivity is high. And I show up.
But still after madness broke through, it pushed itself beyond sanity, a different place, for sill and nill, and fill and squill and
Spill…. screamers.
the manure bunnies are a focal unit and they become in charge. its frightening in person…. when it happens. why I like doing coffee or beer. I can lean in on it, to calm me down, and its simplicity is my sanctuary.
And The Mad Hounds
Constantly convinced — need passage… Its very old, its in Dante, but not like that.
Its more a thing where desert Alyssa heads out, on white horse to the look out or the well, and running into voices of transgression….
she vanishes, gets thrown, on a sword, what I call the seven swords of st mary fairy, by explosion in focals that are all depth but very limited scope.
The idea I must make passage in order to get through it, very old too. Even in the materials I got out of punks junk —
Repeaters of seafaring values, wiles and dialogue that are about honor and death.
My stuff is God Awful to Boot
Thats what I think.
Maybe suddenly and for a short time it has moments — And then its back to me climbing the fucking vine.
and the arguments about having to create a present tense which I am want to defy and yet cant
and the impact in language, of philosophy on my work, and the playfulness of pulling in math terms, because I spent time with Nash —
Mind where spend time
There were years I ran in mind with the Nash, and Roger Penrose.
Everybody does it. For instance, Bataille and Nietzsche. Or Baudelaire and Poe. Me and Lispector…
John Nash has some great quotes. I found very straight forward and humanizing. Here’s a few —
Quotes from John Nash
On Thinking Rationally
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists.
However, this is not entirely a matter of joy, as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
On Acting Like A Normal Person
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
On Strangeness
I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.
Forbes Nash, Jr.
On Appearing To Have a Useful Life
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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