[Athens, google maps]

[1] Cape Sounion (temple to athena, younger, older) Lavrion [map] Patroklos, Attica/ Patroclus of Macedon, Ptolemy II/ Ptolemaic Kingdom Antigonus / Battle of Cos

[2] ἐπίνειον Phaleron Menestheus

[3]”… τοῦτον τὸν Λεωσθένην καὶ τοὺς παῖδας ἔγραψεν Ἀρκεσίλαος.” Arkesilas (Laconian vase painter, but can’t be the same as is mentioned here) Leosthenes Lamia Demos (God of the people) Leochares Conon (Aegospotami) Knidos Caria (Map)

[4] Mounychia (Tourkolimani) ἀπώτερος Colchis Androgeos [are these θεῶν τε ὀνομαζομένων Ἀγνώστων the same as the unknown God of Acts 17:23]** “For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.”

[5] κλύδων, ναυάγιον genetyllides Phocaea — ὄροφος —Mardonius— Alcamenes

[2.1] τοξευθῆναι Pirithous “no one knows anything at all about Hegias” (footnote, Peter Levi), Themiscyra Thermedor / Terme. Antiope. Molpadia.

[2.2] (ἀνιόντων, ἐρείπιον) Thirty Tyrants [so, if the tyrants were 404 BCE Socrates must have been fairly old when he defied them, mid sixties, if he died in his early seventies], Menander

[2.3] Polycrates/ Samos ; πόρρω / ἐπίθημα

[Review of architectural vocabulary: ἐπίθημα… sepulchral figure ; ἀγάλματα , statue to a god… βωμός… stand, a raised platform…ἐπίγραμμα inscription… στοά , roofed collonade… εἰκών, likeness, image]

[2.4] [Kerameikos * / Dipylon Gate τοῖχος δᾷδα Polybotes, Iacchos

[2.5] ἀνάθημα, Mnemosyne, Acratus πηλός, Amphictyon (mythical king of Athens) Icaria, Mount Pentelicus ἐπ᾽ ἐμοῦ … in my time, ἐπὶ Ἰκαρίου … in the days of Ikarus, Eleutherae

[2.6] ἐκδέχομαι

{review of Monarchy in Athens. [0] Actaios (first king of Attica) [1] Kecrops (end of line). [2] Kranaos (“foremost of the Athenians”) [3] Amphyctyon (married to daughter of Kranaos) [4] Erychthonios [no human parents]

[3.1] ἐνιαύσιος / SCIRON Hemera (“Pausanias seems to confuse her with Eos when saying that she carried Cephalus away.”) Cephalus

[3.2] Timotheus (son of Conon),

[3.3] πέραν ἀνήκοος… Melanthus

[3.4] 2nd battle of Mantinea (1st), κατάληψις, πταῖσμα, ἐπίκλησις/ Leochares, Kalamis, Alexicacus, ξόανον

[3.5] θεσμοθέτης, εἰσβολή

[4.1] Eridanos “a river that does not exist anywhere on earth, although it is said to be near the Po” Cassander

[4.2] — [4.3] — [4.4] — [4.5] — [4.6]

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“Today my deepest wish is to go to sleep for six months, if not for ever; it is an admission that life has become almost unendurable and that I must look to pleasure as a waking substitute for sleep. We cannot sleep twenty-four hours a day but we can at least make sleep and pleasure alternate, if once we will admit that, like deep narcotic treatment for nervous breakdown, they are remedies for the very sick. Reality, union with reality, is the true state of the soul when confident and healthy.” Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave.

Sebald in a sense having ressurected the narrative I of Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy — but

story idea of person wandering around housing complex like I have just done–

idea that the mechanism by which “Karl” becomes “K” is Kafka’s diminishing hopes of publication –of career as salvation, of career as even something “distantly out there” and possible–

(because career is not possible, Kafka is “K”)

ought publication to be considered the realm of the perfect or the realm of the good enough– in an absolute sense — if it’s going to be published it has to be good (because it represents oneself, one’s publisher)– if it’s going to be published of course it will merely be ‘good enough’ (almost nothing that’s published is actually much good, in an ‘absolute sense’.)

if it were true that only by reading the original manuscript could you have an ‘authentic reading experience’ what would that imply– which is most true or is it to be thought of as a spectrum: the author’s thought; the author’s manuscript; the author’s published thought [etc.]

Statue: what is interesting about the statue of the woman picking up after her dog is the length and the tautness of the leash between her and her dog; while she crouches the dog is pulling with the maximum strength in another direction. The dog is not portrayed in the statue.

“spectacle” …

“signs without the signified”…

the really big numbers we encounter in modern times: the size of the nat’l debt, the distance to the sun, the age of the earth … whereas in classical times it was “10,000”… (does our capacity to number precede or follow the things we find to number)… we know the Dow Jones goes up or down (and what it’s going up or down roughly may mean to us) but don’t really know what it represents (or how it goes up or down) or why it is thirteen instead of two thousand

(Of the ignition we know to insert and twist the key, of the engine we know it needs oil and gas, but what occurs between them is generally not known.)

(we have faith that a mechanic must know, but what if it were to come to pass that no one really knew how the one related to the other, that we forgot)

(often our “forest of symbols” is one of car or computer parts?) [NO.]

The idea that A.I will essentially be like this: there will be a car, we don’t know to fix, between us and experience, (between us and all of experience, not just our experience of transportation)

“Fraudulence” making a “statue of oneself” (good old neon) awareness of playing the expected role in the given drama or spectacle– the script — (Sommerby’s “script”) — “being oneself” (our android self) — (“being serious” equals building our statue.) android statue (to be a spectacle, whatever it may mean for oneself, is “at least also to distract others from themselves.”)

“Going on 10 years later, the evidence is in: The anti-Keynesian forces have been proved conclusively mistaken on every single argument. Their refusal to pick up what amounted to a multiple-trillion-dollar bill sitting on the sidewalk is the greatest mistake of economic policy analysis since 1929 at least”… The biggest policy mistake of the last decade.

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WLK: * edgewood, ; by Center; 28th Rd (lot) ; WR/ Hill ; Monroe ; Abingdon near tennis courts ; 395 overpass, overpass; seeing onramp; past mailbox near first mail box;

Strides and Jerseys self as cold front Equality perfect lot In which some trivial questions are asked experience of nothing notable footfalls and gumchews walking while hearing car alarm … whether or not you’ve seen a fire engine Bright Red Winter Coat (8) post de luz The firehouse is Creon walking meditation “Cezanne of The Earth”

gals with leashes, jets and clouds, portraits and faces.fresher and fresher paint

If you believe that you are being constantly lied to, paradoxically you may be in danger of accepting untruths …denialism

Borges: “Moreover, there’s a tendency, or a habit, of judging an act by its consequences. Now that seems immoral to me, because when you act you know if your acts are evil or good. As for the consequences of an act—they ramify and multiply and perhaps balance out in the end. I do not know, for example, if the consequences of the discovery of America have been good or evil, because there are so many. Even as we are talking, they are growing and multiplying. Thus, to judge an act by its consequences is absurd. But people tend to do this. For example, a contest or a war is judged according to failure or success and not according to whether it’s ethically justified. As for the consequences, as I said, they multiply in such a way that, perhaps in time, they balance out and then become unbalanced again. It is a continuous process”….

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I may have inadvertently struck upon my writing ideal — the ideal state in which to write– which is to bring oneself first to the point of actually crying with boredom. This is the state one needs to be in, weeping, blubbering with the tedium one has faced and has yet to face; perhaps there is a universal application.

The idea of dealing with, as opposed to alleviating boredom, has been inherent to Modernism from the start, I think, but most recently and forcefully appeared in Wallace’s novels –there, almost as an ethic.

Infinite Jest shows how trying to alleviate boredom –through distraction– if taken to its logical end, must result in boredom of another sort — in addiction. While the posthumous novel (its name not arising just now) shows the heroism involved in superhuman focus upon the tedious. Not a winking and nodding involvement but a wholehearted plunge into the dull, an acknowledgement of the deep seriousness of dull things….

Boredom is seeming death while distraction is the real thing, I want to say.

Imagine everything that tears are to compassion. Bring that same power to boredom and perhaps we will have achieved our “breakthrough.”

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The one after that I mistranslated too. Looked up whether ‘hand’ could take the plural. I looked up the Greek also for the phrase I had seen translated as “wind eggs” at the end of the Theaetetus. In the Greek word, which I can’t remember now, I saw evidence of “wind” but nothing at all that suggested the idea of “eggs”. Yet I couldn’t recall the Greek word for eggs.

I was struck by the conclusion of the Theaetetus: in the end we are better people for realizing we don’t know much of anything. Not the same but a similar feeling on reading this one section of The Pale King recently — Wallace portraying some young men realizing that people are cool are not necessarily people of value. People realizing that intelligence exists and they don’t have it. (Reading this seemed to melt away some of my own unintelligence. And unintelligence –strangely, as I think the Theatetus brings up– has to do with presuming one’s own intelligence — that one, simply by virtue of being one’s extraordinary self, knows everything already more or less well enough.)

Maybe part of the pleasure of reading a book is that of of having a part of one’s intelligence melted away — and the reason this is a pleasure is that, at the same time, it’s understood — that this has not actually been intelligence. This has been some imposter intelligence you’ve been cozening, all this while.

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What if the combination of democracy and capitalism is given to increasing individuals’ sense of self importance? (That is, to the vast majority of individuals). Democracy giving the feeling to people: they are somebody. Capital giving to people the idea: they have no one.

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“Where are the Republicans who know in their heart the president is giving away the store to Vladimir Putin?” Schumer said on Capitol Hill. “The best people to check him are not Democrats but his fellow Republicans.” […] This echoes Adam Schiff from some weeks earlier telling Congressional Republicans to “wake up and do their jobs.”… “This is not oversight, this is collaboration” … It appears that only Republicans can make this right, and they –can’t, won’t; are befuddled or supine; defiant and indifferent; don’t know how to / kinda like him.

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Asking myself what literature can do in political crises, I think mainly of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence as being literary responses to political crises: that, insofar as literature has a place in American democracy, it is embodied now in the writings of the U.S. Supreme Court. (Though of course oratory can be literary –the Funeral Oration, the Gettysburg Address– and the court itself has developed, in the last couple decades, a less literary, more “news watching” feel.) (This is to say, I suppose, that I think of literature as being slow to influence, but with a lasting effect; and the opposite of say advertising.)

Other than this one wonders, might a magic word be spoken? one that could bring an ax to the “frozen seas” of this nation?

Lens comes from lentil, and has also a geology-specific meaning. (I was inspired to look this up having seen it, in the geologic sense, spelled lense.)