Writing block is a force to be reckoned with. When we can't express, we can only be still, until the expression begins again. Good luck, my friend. As for me, I am entering the season of hectic calling. I will miss you all in the duration, and will try to chime in from time to time. I love it here.
On Thursday, December 11, 2014 7:47:46 PM UTC-5, archytas wrote: > > Odd how easily we get suckered into such as 'bad spelling', the shame of > the misplaced apostrophe, barking spelling rules like i before e except > after c (no doubt like seize) and 'for who the bell tolls' (it shouldn't be > whom according to the rules). I actually thought 'histarical' describes us > both to a T at times and Gabby all of the time (not really) - so why should > it be a spelling mistak? Gabbs won't understand none of this Charlie, on > the grounds of being dragged up in the logically ruthless German language > in which one must tomorrow navel with head in clouds gaze the dative case, > bright as a button being in the creation of words so long they probably > their own internal syntax haben. To make up for this they drop the a in 'I > am a Berliner'. Endless supplies of paper we not though Sweden army trees > and small army have. > > My English teachers had nice legs. I remember little else other than the > trauma of the Oxford comma and the brutality of the future pluperfect. > German and Russian came as blessed relief from the language of world > domination, now wrenched from the Queen's fair hands by Americans with no > language of their own. I was told I would need these foreign languages, > along with Latin to better understand Greek and read scientific papers > written by the only foreigners literate in it. Turned out everything about > Greeks and Romans was an extended lie of the Catholic Church and German and > Russian scientists bright enough to translate papers to English. They > dropped the requirement doctors speak Latin on the day they started > teaching it to me. Doctors, of course, never wrote Latin, but this does > explain why their handwriting is so bad. They just haven't dropped the > habit of covering up their lack of Latin. It is a matter of great regret I > never discovered who or what was sucking out the brains of my > contemporaries to make them think. At some point, I strumbled (another > word we should put to more use) into computer coding. Here one discovers > that coding is very boring and relies on understanding nothing human beings > say makes sense to machines far brighter than we are, able to translate all > languages through statistical methods badly. > > Get out that fiddle Allan and we'll jamm some histarical stom strumble. > > On Thursday, December 11, 2014 4:04:29 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >> >> I know my spelling is bad.. but it is better than it was. A good brain >> stoming session is good if fellow participants have brains. >> Good starting point. >> >> Do not murder, rape, enslave or harm others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: archytas <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 9:36 AM >> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Writing Block >> >> 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. >> > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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