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[heraclitus]

I drive now. My father has a 1998 silver Ford Taurus SE which I get at night time. He is capable of driving at night, but only just due to iriditis, which is some sort of congenital inflammation of the iris, and because one of his retinas briefly detached itself from his eye, and because he has cataracts. None of this is sufficient to get his

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[thehollow]

i haven't forgotten about your proposal to meet up. are friday afternoons good for you? that's when i get off work. email me sometime: john.wong.queens at gmail.com

[heraclitus]

I work retail, so I'm perpetually fucked for weekends. I might be able to get a Friday off in future though. If I do, I'll give you a holler.

[rfmcdpei]

I really need to get my license. Also, Friday evenings sound decent, and the Pour House is in my neighbourhood ...

[vexed_vitality]

Having driven for about three and a half years now, and being similarly given to such ruminations, I cannot but thoroughly agree with this excellent reflection on the "phenomenology of driving," if you will. That said, if your car runs out of windshield solvent periodically, why should it be unexpected? :-) But I nitpick. Good to see you posting again, even if only occasionally ( and unexpectedly

[heraclitus]

I've heard of Pessoa, but never read him. I'll check him out.

Also, the car runs out of windshield fluid periodically but unexpectedly because I usually forget how long it's been since I filled the fluid up.

Recommended places to start

[vexed_vitality]

The Book of Disquiet, translated and edited by Richard Zenith: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Disquiet-Penguin-Classics/dp/0141183047/sr=8-1/qid=1171924620/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-5002875-9371114?ie=UTF8&s=books... )

mensch-machine

[minniethemoocha]

Nice to see you post again. Occasionally I spit something out to entertain or antagonize, but mostly I stay in and read a lot. Not much external to see or miss. Next on the list is Ortega y Gasset, but anyway.

Re: mensch-machine

[heraclitus]

Revolt of the Masses!

Re: mensch-machine

[minniethemoocha]

Vomitus Circus Maximus.

[langtimenosee]

I like the way you write about driving. As a new driver meself, I feel the same way. I hope the novelty of driving never dies.
Trevor, Fraser and I once went driving along Markham's backgrounds one dirty summer, and we found ourselves flying into the country listening to OK Computer in its entirety, in complete silence. I would strongly recommend it.

[donferdinand]

You know, I had a dream that you visited Texas based on reading this entry right before going to sleep. Internet user "wynand" was also there and I remember, as sometimes happens, thinking myself the target of an implied slight. To feel better about myself, I said, "How do you feel about the fact that this whole 'visit' is happening as part of MY dream?" To this, you replied, "AGH DON'T say shit like that - I like to think that I have some skill in dream manipulation but this shit fucks up everything" - like, because being reminded of what you were doing, and being reminded that it was I who had ultimate control of the dream world, ruined the concentration necessary to transmit yourself to people in dreams across vast distances. I remember being convinced that it was "really you" because of the rhetorical style your avatar, I guess, employed throughout: authoritative, somewhat pompous, filled equally with technical terms and profanity.

[madmanofprague]

Maybe it wasn't that you were reminding him, it's that when you claimed possession of the entire dream was denigrating his ability to create, and in so own, the dream, hence pissing him off.

[heraclitus]

I always enjoy appearing in people's dreams. An entire entry is forthcoming!