MDDM ch.69: Why did the egg cross...

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Just trying to give the ying/yang qualities of Ch. '69' 
their due, not quite ahead of Dave's broadside.

The chapter seems to be, at very least, a meditation
on agency: Why did the chicken cross the road? and, as 
already mentioned, feedback. 

The mutual dream M&D wake from, in the final line of
the chapter, might almost be the trance of the chicken
on the line with which it opens. By a series of satiric
inversions, the chapter seems to be pointing out that
agency, mind and perhaps even animacy are merely 
constructs, textual or otherwise, complexified to the level
of significance by repeated iteration.

The awareness of the contextualized self- where one is 
and why-  provides answers, albeit provisional, to the 
question of who one is, and, with a little outside prodding, 
who we might become.

There is much more, of course, including the large 
parenthesized section on breath control, which seems 
to reprise and bring down to scale the western wind 
blowing through the St. Helena episodes- again, a wending 
in on itself to to become "easternised" or even pre-easternised. 
The description of breath control involved in oboeing reminded
me of the native Australians and their 'horns." 

 As well as the super-position of potentials, roads
not taken, subjunctives, which become "ghosters" that
are never really banished into mindless oblivion, by Obs, 
measurements or choices made, but, hang around the
chosen text making their presence felt, in fact, 
might be what self-consciousenss is really about.

Maybe next time...