I think we have the idea of the 'solo artist' quite wrong. Collaboration with others is often awful - I really have been to brainstorming sessions of truly brainless proportion - and I long abandoned other academics in anything where I was responsible for deadlines - yet I miss the contributions of others now I've gone solo and still can't shake off what we might call 'audience pressures' or find a voice (though I can still get through 3 hours of lecturing with discomfort only amongst the poor souls that have to listen). 'Histarical' sounds wonderfully descriptive of something you and I experience Al. The Engleesh teechers will never allow it though.
I wanted to do something like my teaching strategy - largely based on an early threat that my job was to install a thick textbook of unbelievable tedium in the heads of students, followed by an offer to throw it in the bin if they would have a go at finding something they wanted to do. A kind if make your own mind up novel. I managed this in case study by encouraging investigation outside the written material. I think what happened to me was getting used to writing in hyper-text to be filled out by others and too used to marking all the work as though I was the audience. I am not alone, as an academic, in reading Kierkegaard as a Danish comic (the Nordics will wait much longer for a joke than us) - but I can't find a way to write the bigger farce of language as deception, other than in some turgid academy-speak on such as law courts pretending to be rational while acting out Freud's Oedipal theatre. Histarical! On Thursday, December 11, 2014 6:26:06 AM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: > > But what would I know, I seem to be trapped where time is nothing more > than a histarical marker. > > Do not murder, rape, enslave or harm others > > -----Original Message----- > From: archytas <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 7:18 AM > Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Writing Block > > Can you see if the tinsel is being worn inside or on top of the blue > velvet? > > On Thursday, December 11, 2014 5:58:19 AM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >> >> I understand what your colleague is saying. As for brains that is why I >> oftentimes why I find myself sitting on the side of the hill. I'm left >> wondering if most of the world has turned into a tinsel town? >> >> Do not murder, rape, enslave or harm others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: archytas <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 2:07 AM >> Subject: Mind's Eye Re: Writing Block >> >> Creativity is free without copyright protection. Walking into a >> brainstorming session it is tempting to ask 'where are the other brains >> then'? Even the invention of physics outside space-time doesn't get one >> out-from-under that manoeuvre, especially when pertinent to reality! What >> everyone in the galaxy hates most is a wise-ass. A colleague once told me >> she couldn't stand even minor distractions like people talking at the back, >> always thinking they might be saying something more interesting than she >> was. I was able to assure her this could not be true, as no one had ever >> said anything interesting in one of her classes. 'Must have SOH' is a >> general personality demand - yet most react to harmless jibes with revenge >> and advertising as harmless. Brilliant riposte - I've just spent 3 hours >> fixing the ultimate block to my writing - malfunctioning Microsoft Office - >> needed a smile. >> >> One might try writing on the important, but no one is interested in that >> without the guru act. My aliens have it that the prime directive of human >> languages is deception. Few humans can take this deadly seriousness with a >> smile. Sadly the aliens don't use money and I have to rely on the human >> audience. >> >> On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 10:47:07 PM UTC, facilitator wrote: >>> >>> My first reaction is to try and respond with a clever yet reciprocating >>> idea but I don't want to hate myself after I have posted it. A response to >>> this requires thought. >>> >>> >>> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> ""Minds Eye"" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
