Being or things emerge from processes of copying, doubling,
imaging and simulation. Each unique work of art or each human individual is a
simulation: genes copy and repeat, with deviation, while art works become
singular not by ‘being’ the world but by transforming it – Clair Colebrook –
Gilles Deleuze, 2002 p99
Fish account for more that half the species of all living
vertebrates and ants make up over half of all the animal biomass.
The storms – they just keep on moving through – one after
another. This is the strongest wind that have I experienced yet. Another one is
coming. It has gotten cold. And it’s starting to get dark. The lady had said –
Oh, we don’t get tornadoes here. Why not, I ask? They get them over in Ohio.
This felt like tornado weather and I knew for I was from Kansas.
I want to share with you
Something about these
The thing that I don’t want
You to
do...
It must be tweaked a bit
Reinvent it, change it, yeah
I
appreciate that
I think you for that
This is learned
Catch the
speaker’s
Scripted scenarios
Avoid
anything personal
Think on your feet
But it needs to be personalized
What I mean
is...
It’a a full dress rehearsal
It should be very
Then I
realized...
I didn’t want to it to hurt
That is one
reason
You invited me over
To help your share your vision
The DNA of
our purpose ia…
This all looks very good
Stay with
the script
It makes it appear spontaneous
That is
something that I picked up on ...
Stay with a script that works
This is a
good script
True and tried
Red, white and blue
The process
proceeds
Without anyone getting pissed
They are
true and tried
Let me put it that way...
If we could just know the answers
The answers to the questions
The questions that they will ask us
Make a deal, make a big deal
A multimillion-dollar deal
Develop,
grow, enhance, expand
Have you noticed any of this
Since you have been with us
Oh yes, keep your hands plainly in sight
Firmly on the desk, clasped
Look me in the eye
Confidently nod as I speak
There are rules
I’ve got enough on my plate
That’s what his e-mail had said
He’s
not being a team member
That’s what I had said
There is not a present world and than a representing
language. The world or cosmos is an immanent plane of signification or
‘symbiosis’ ; there are signs and codes throughout life, not just in the
separate mind of man or language – Clair Colebrook – Gilles Deleuze, 2002 p107
A 1% increase in the incidence of birth defects correlates
to a 238% increase in autism. Is autism our canary?
We do not have an ontological tool any longer to distinguish
a simulation and a non-simulation. The critical tool which we have to use is
concretivity as opposed to abstractness – Vielem Fussel
The Vatican has the world’s highest per capita consumption
of wine – 74 liters per year. This is twice as high as such traditional wine
drinking countries as Italy and France.
On the day you are married, at about sixteen if you are a
girl, at about twenty if your are a man, a key is turned, with a sound not
easily audible, and you are locked between the stale earth and the sky; the key
turns in the lock behind you, and your full life of work begins, and there is
nothing conceivable for which it can afford to stop short of your death – James
Agee – Now Let Us Praise Famous Men, 1939 p323
What factory farming has done is to take the neat solution
of the waste and product cycle of traditional farming and divide it into two
problems – the need for artificial fertilizers and the pollution of the feedlot
(for which no remedy is normally even applied).
I Carry a Torch
Keep in touch
Don’t lose sleep
Exchange platitudes
Concentrate, feel the pain
You just arrived
As I was leaving
Stay in touch
That’s all I can say
Drive on over
Walk by if you must
I’ll Leave the light
On on the porch
Stand by
For a ringtone
Count on it
High touch
The woman is the servant of the day, and of immediate life;
the man is the servant of the year, and of the basis and boundaries of life,
and is their ruler; and the children are the servant of their parents and the
center of all their existence, the central work, that by which they have their
land, their shelter, their living – James Agee – Let Us Praise Famous Men, 1939
p325
Dieting enhances ones sense of taste – now I understand what
Nouveau Cuisine was all about. Given that you only get a little you have to
make the most of it – savor it. Quality is important when quantity is
sufficient.
The fundamental principles that defines class in America
seems to be aspiration not income, according to the White House Middle Class
Task Force. Surveys indicate that those who consider themselves Middle Class
have fallen from 54% six years ago to 44% today. Only 39% of Americans believe
that their children will have a better standard of living than they do. This is
down from 66% in 2008. Aspirations are meeting reality head on
Love of money [is] a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of
those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a
shudder to the specialists in mental disorders – John Maynard Keynes
It is impossible to conceive of the impossible.
How can I tell what I thing until I see what I say – E M
Forster
There are two sides to any solution - the problems that it solves and the
problems it creates. If the problems it creates can be solved by the same
process that created them, then that is the ideal solution. That is how
industries thieve, by internalizing a problem and its supposed solution. Food
systems are such solutions. Not a better solution for society. Not a better
solution for the farmer. A better solutions for the food processor. Who cares so long as somebody makes money on it.
That’s better. The first cup still had the dredges of last
night’s wine. It gave it a funny taste like a mouse had died in it. I dump it out
and start out fresh. The only problem is that it’s yesterday coffee so this cup is
not all it could be either but at least it doesn’t taste like something had
died in it, anymore.
“Why aren’t you more affectionate?” “I am”
“Why don’t you care more?” “I do” – Lloyd Schwartz – These
People, 1973
In 2000 the UN estimated that for the first time the number
of people worldwide suffering from over nutrition – a billion – had officially
surpassed the number suffering from malnutrition – 800 million
When a society consists largely of imbeciles, half wits,
blockheads and oafs, there is no point in anyone calling anyone else names –
Javier Marias – Fever and Spear, 2007 p374
So we are sitting here in the bar enjoying a beer. I always
order a flight (or several depending on their number, but since they are
innumerable) Its hard to gauge how many flights to get – it would seem that one
flight for each half dozen Little People would be sufficient but each time you
count them the total comes out different.
Well then why not count the unused glasses after everyone has finished
drinking – will some of the share a glass and some of them use more that one.
As has been often repeated, sometimes there are more and sometimes there are
less but there is never just one. So I just make a wild guess and divide by
six. And anyway all I’m concerned with is that we get a lot of little glasses
because I also get a pitcher for the refills and as I said sometimes they share
and sometimes they use more than one. Accuracy is not that important. I always
get the cheapest beer – usually PBR. The Little People have no preference. They
like the little beers that come in the flight but more due to the variety than
their quality. That one little beer can get them looped. After that they don’t
care what they drink. I get a pint of bitter for myself. I myself like a good
hand-crafted ale – either a Porter of an IPA depending on the time of year. And
you would think that all those little glasses and all those little people
sitting there in the booth would be distracting to the other patrons, but it’s not. Chrissy brings me my pint, a
pitcher of PBR and three flights of their finest hand-crafted beers and doesn’t
bat an eyelash. It like the bar was always packed with Little People and I know
that not true. I occasionally wonder why no one takes notice of them, then I
forget about it and we get to what we met here to talk about.
You see, Tuppence, I can’t help feeling that we are more or
less amateurs at this business amateurs in one sense we cannot help being, but
it would do no harm to acquire the techniques, so to speak. These books are
detective stories by the leading masters of the art. I intend to try different
styles, and compare results – Agatha Christie – Partners in Crime, 1929
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