Good luck as ever Molly. I once had a cat that learned to type and turned my thesis into Greek. The dogs aren't being much help, lying about bored when I produce the great work and leaping to enthusiasm only when they hear the noise of Windows 10 signing off. They have decided this means 'walkies;.
On Saturday, December 13, 2014 1:15:01 AM UTC, Molly wrote: > > 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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