GRGR 1,2 chores / axes

Cometman cometman_98 at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 7 17:48:29 CST 2005


chores are beckoning, a rich impasto of detritus is scumbling my floors
and countertops, and I'm attacking the bananas of my life with a great
isosceles blade honed past nervousness towards zeal thanks to GR
discussion, thanks y'all

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if the 4 locales of 1,1 and 1,2 are arranged in quadrants, 2 axes would
be nice to have:

x axis - private / public
y axis - waking / dreaming

dream - lower left - the parabola begins in deep dream, moves up
(toward consciousness, going thru 0 when light strikes his nipples)

garden - upper left - the parabola continues upward as Pirate attains
wakefulness, and leftward toward engagement with his messmates

breakfast - upper right - in responding to all the stimuli, especially
the phone call, Pirate's individual consciousness is increasingly
plugged in to various  relationships, at first friendly ones and then
workaday ones, and he becomes part of a social group.  His dismay
("haven't even done me pushups yet"/ the last swallow of mead like the
very essence of time running out / once again he's looking through a
window etc) graphs as a downward motion of consciousness

car ride - more public in that he's out of the house, chauffeured (ie
not in control but also indicative of quite some status); heading
toward a meeting --- yet his wakefulness quotient drops below the zero
and continues back into dreamland  

naturally the graph is only in my mind, but lacks clarity (like some
other of the contents thereof)
 
I somewhere read a theory of how dreams are the brain's real work,
putting together patterns beyond the logocentric ability of the waking
mind...can't remember the reference on that



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