grimoire...same root as grammar

[Mark Kohut]

The term "grimoire" commonly serves as an alternative name for a spell-book or tome of magical knowledge in such genres as fantasy fiction. The most famous fictional grimoire is the Necronomicon, a creation of the author H. P. Lovecraft. It was first referenced in his story "The Hound", and subsequently made appearances in many of his stories. Other authors such as August Derleth and Clark Ashton Smith have also cited it in their works with Lovecraft's approval. Lovecraft believed such common allusions built up "a background of evil verisimilitude

Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:   Monte Davis wrote:
> deep into thickets of information theory and time [ir]reversibility.
>
> But -- silly me --what could the latter possibly have to do with AtD?
>

well, most of the best books have at least something about it...

Yashmeen skips over the Vlado document (which has chapter
titles an awful lot like a grimoire) and its math arguments partly
because of the time-terms therein

...between that and nostalgia for Vlado, and for her old career plans
(keeps reminding me of my grandmother who gave up plans to study
gymnastics in Europe to get married and become a gym teacher...)
she fears contemplation of it - or comparison with her present situation?
would lead to madness

Is this the same dangerous desire to "recapture the past" that the voice
("you know who I am") at the Maths Museum mentioned and warned against?

On a related note, there are certain Feynmann equations
which work equally well no matter which way time is pointed
(not that I could explain that: I've only read his autobiography)

and, in the whole "past is not dead, it's not even past" idea....
ok, the dolphin in _Johnny Mnemonic_ was able to use sonar
to read software through the hulls of ships, right?

(entering the speculative zone)
so, now, since reality for a person is dependent on their perception
of it, memory - being a thought process - consists of (or is anyway
related to) electrical impulses in brain cells...
and since these electrical impulses are vibrations, conceptual
reality (subjective) actually is a wave carried inside the skull
but not limited to it, ie, one's reality (thnking outside the (brain)box)
is a continuous wavefront moving through the universe

ie, thinking about memory ---
not that we are accessing current states in brain cells when
we remember, but that we are actually connected to the original
events that placed the brain cells in those states...

and this wavefront could be traversed in either direction - so that the
question isn't really whether it can be done: the fact that we
have memories indicates that it is done -- but how it can
be done more successfully

"these ideas are not even fallacious" - as somebody told Terence McKenna


       
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