Misc. 'Excuse my mind, but I'm really harmless just, you know....

[Ian Livingston]

Remember that Watts died of alcoholism. I've seen plenty of
"enilightened" alcoholics and put no more faith in Watts' teachings
than any others. He had intellectual understanding of some texts and
teachings, but he was not a "realized master." That pretending stuff
is just pretending, aka, denial.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> but also, somehow the recording angel is outside the scene and not
> subject to the request for the moment of silence...how about Alan
> Watts who was able to ignore scratches on his phonograph records by
> pretending he was sitting near a fire listening to them...
>
> It's not probably going to be too long before cameras are silent anyway???
>
> age of mechanical reproduction - the subject kind of segues into
> Chapter 14, V. in love
>
> oh how I wish Robin'd come back and do it to it
>
> I'm still stuck on the long sentence, probably be posting on it in
> 2014 unless I get motivated and convolute thru it, it's a long snake
> like Fausto's undergraduate notion of history
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Watching to also observe the moment of silence for the deaths yesterday,
>> what could one hear o'erlapping the supposed white noise silence?
>>
>> The sound of camera after camera clicking there in d.c...amidst stillness and
>> ruined silence.
>>
>> Why did i think of Teflon and his camera and Old Man Rideout in the supposed
>> silence of a
>>
>> primal scene in nature????
>>
>> TRP is still, I think, the writer who got the ubiquity of moment-killing
>> photography best in fiction---and before Ms. Sontag's pinning it down in her
>> book......
>>
>> Anybody catch it earlier, anyone, anyone??
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> --
> "Why must I be like that? Why must I chase the cat?" - George Clinton,
> Atomic Dog
>



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