The skeleton (out of his grave, supplying his bones, and with a body to move around in) will be intercepting and otherwise pleasurably receiving sound produced by these persons (who have full bodies –for everyone here has full bodies) at D.C 9 tomorrow night (2/28):

“It was incubated in New York, where nobody cares about anything, and birthed in D.C., where everybody cares about Nothing—but it eschews the bipolar, all-or-nothing fight between God and the Devil, in favor of confronting the rabble of lesser deities of deprivation and excess who constitute the pantheon from which our generation poaches their boutique metaphysics a la carte.

A remark I interpret as saying that “Beyond Good and Evil” is essentially correct, but new-ageism, the big contribution of our baby-boomers, is not that: it is “boutique metaphysics a la carte.”

Dream. I’m in a helicopter with my father: he on the left, piloting, I on the right, concerned that he is not fully appreciating the height of the trees we approach. He thinks I’m worrying too much but, when we near them, he is forced to pull back hard on the throttle. This happens more than once.

Then we are flying over a plain full of jungle cats, mainly lions and lionesses. I’m holding from out of the helicopter a “Sienna Chicken” on a long string, and the cats are chasing after it, and finally I let them have it, releasing the string.

Then I’m on the ground. I believe it to be safe on the ground now, because I’ve already given the cats the sandwich, yet I notice one leopard has nevertheless continued to follow me. It may be that he doesn’t know I’ve already let go of the “Sienna Chicken”, or it may be that he does know and that he is actually interested in me.

A little behind me I notice a sort of trash can I could leap onto, the only possibility for defense, at which point I wake.

Inframince (infrathin):

“Aesthetic concept developed by Marcel Duchamp for whom it generally characterised a thickness (“épaisseur”), a separation, a difference, an interval between two things, in general little perceptible. The inframince qualifies a distance or a difference that you cannot perceive, but that you can only imagine. The best example of it, is the “inframince separation between the bang of a gun (very near) and the mark of appearance of the mark of the bullet on the target”.

(Will think of this as an effort to portray an instance of inframince — capturing the point, while typing, between a cursor blinking and a letter appearing. This one too: of one’s foot landing at the midpoint between two of a car alarms’ reports.)

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Libation Bearers, 59-60 (Trans.: Smyth.)

τὸ δ᾽ εὐτυχεῖν,
τόδ᾽ ἐν βροτοῖς θεός τε καὶ θεοῦ πλέον.

Pindar, Olympian 7.43-47

ἐπὶ μὰν βαίνει τε καὶ λάθας ἀτέκμαρτα νέφος,
καὶ παρέλκει πραγμάτων ὀρθὰν ὁδὸν
ἔξω φρενῶν.

*

[45] Truly, a cloud of forgetfulness sometimes descends unexpectedly, and draws the straight path of action away from the mind…. Diane Arnson Svarlien

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Tropic of Cancer:

This then? This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty… what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse.

*

It wasn’t exactly a religious experience, but somehow, a little at a time, she had found herself surrendering to her old need to take care of people. Not for compensation, certainly not for thanks. Her first rule became: “Don’t thank me.” Her second was “Don’t take the credit for anything that turns out well.” One day she woke up understanding clear as the air that as long as a person was willing to forgo credit, there were very few limits on the good it became possible to do. [Against The Day.]

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Conclusion of Stevens’ dissent in Citizens United:

At bottom, the Court’s opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.

An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors and hunches that regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge. This clutter is an unfortunate by product of one of our greatest strengths as a species. We are unbridled pattern recognizers and profligate theorizers. Often our theories are good enough to get us through the day, or at least to the age when we can procreate.[…] (concerning dunning-kruger effect)