h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Posts 91 & 92 & 93...

...sho' 'nuff... its nice nice though sometimes to be able to relax and go with the free associational flow...

James Joyce, Bertrand Russell...

Russ Bertrand...Joyce James...

Jab

James Bertrand, Russell Joyce? Granted they were poles apart stylistically and thematically, but they did have a "stream of consciousness" thing in common.

Joyce Bertrand...Russell James? Bertrand James...Russell Joyce?

Just finished lunch. (12:30 PST)

Jamesian determinism...

Bertrand Russell lived to be 98, and managed to segue from mathematics to philosophy before anyone could stop him. He also made a dramatic chanbge in the modern world's view of sexuality.

James Joyce became an expatriot, writing about his native Ireland from a place in Paris. He ended up blind. His "Portrait of the Artist as a Young man" was required reading when I was a Freshman in high school. I had no clue what any of it meant, and would much rather have read Bertrnd Russell's books on sex, though not his math books .

Henry James has been second-guessed to death. Was he gay? Bisexual? Wass he Bertrand Russell in disguise? Did James Joyce ghost-write for Bertrand Russell or James?

...little blue meanie dandling on knee of big blue meanie...:

"Jim Morrison?"

When one Door closes, another one opens.

... & Leadbelly.

Doors of Perception. Aldous Huxley. Huxley Aldous through the looking-glass.

Jab.

every time I got to an open door it shut in my face, good job I'm harder than any door

You're also adoorable.

Alice has had years of bad luck since she threw the looking glass.

One door closes, and another one slams in your face!

That seems to sum up most of my life!

Yep. Remember sonny, every time a door closes in life, another one closes.

Jab

So that's why those birds were resting their beaks so heavily on Alice's shoulder? (Or maybe that's why she threw the looking glass?)

When they did that to me, I thought it a steering device, to the purpose of keeping my attention directed where they wanted it.

Probably no one awake yet.

I know exactly when my bad luck startedsometime in November 1949when me dad got randy, co's 9 month later it started

Always remember, Prof, its not you, its the rest of the world!

If the rest of the world is going down the drain, it's going to pull us with it .

Reminds me of a time I saw an air plane trapped in a tropical storm cloud*, one of the 'silent' ones you can't see on account of nothing but clear air being in it. The plane was being tossed about like a leaf in the wind. I thought sure I was seeing a plane crash in the happening and figuring my shortest route to the most probable crash area and how to alert emergency services (in the age before cell phones and remote rural conditions).

Then the pilot recovered, got the plane headed into the direction of the wind with the wings nearly vertical and accelerated for all he was worth, broke out of the tropical air pocket, leveled off and resumed horizontal flight. Some inspired flying.

*I've watched tropical storm clouds actually in the process of formation. There was a giant funnel cloud extending downward from a massive thunderhead cloud formation at high altitude, with a lower altitude high velocity wind blowing close to the ground in the direction opposite that the thunderhead formation was going.

The funnel cloud would drop down to the lower altitude thermocline and would break off a lens shaped tropical storm cloud and go back up into the thunderhead formation. After a time, there was a stack of tropical storms clouds, with the lower altitude tropical storm clouds drifting away.

If that funnel cloud had touched ground in still air conditions, it probably would have become the largest tornado in California history, an easy class five.