Comments | zerozero: you know my methods

zerozero

you know my methods

Aug 14, 2002 08:35

So here's a thing: whist scrounging through the scraps and trifles written by the person I was while in the grip of fever (zero version 38.5 or Z38.5 for short - as he is affectionately known) I found this.
what do we mean when we say 'now'? - if I can find a way of piecing this together we need never forget again. Time project: reference pages 28 ( Read more... )

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erzsebeta August 14 2002, 01:12:45 UTC

You threw out books???!

good point zerozero August 14 2002, 01:49:29 UTC

i make a point of passing books on. I try not to hoard & i since I seldom read a book twice . . .

(but "threw out" should be read as "gave to oxfam".)

Re: good point glitchdrei August 14 2002, 02:48:35 UTC

(but "threw out" should be read as "gave to oxfam".)

wow... i can't even do that. unless the book had absolutely no effect on me. in which case i'll probably keep it a while longer in the hope of re-reading it just incase i wasn't concentrating the first time...

/me looks at shelves and shelves of books and sighs.

Re: good point zoo_music_girl August 14 2002, 03:02:18 UTC

I can give away the crap ones but I can never part with a good book. If I think there's the slightest chance I'll reread it I'll keep it.

I also don't throw away books I haven't read, no matter how unlikely it starts to look that I'll ever get round to them. I bought Laurence Sterne's 'A Sentimental Journey' for my degree in 1989, maybe 1990 and haven't got past the first page yet.

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bohofaery August 14 2002, 01:19:06 UTC

This is all very reminiscent of those dreams you have in which you create something perfect, or have a sudden and piercing enlightenment with absolute clarity, and it's desperately important but when you wake up you can't remember anything other than a vague sense of it. I suppose when you're feverish you're closer to your subconscious. The frustrating thing is that these dream insights are never anything special even if you do remember them. The imagery invariably turns out to be nonsensical, and what was unbearably poignant at the time was actually just a man doing something with a banana.

So I wouldn't worry too much that Z38.5 knows more about the fabric of the universe than you do. What felt like genius ideas was more likely to be meaningless rambling.

a man doing something with a banana zerozero August 14 2002, 16:46:14 UTC

Normally I’d agree that dream insights are mundane in the cold light of day - but this one seems just lucid enough that I want to know what I was on about. Plus my dreams of late have been full of positive life affirming images very unlike my usual nocturnal dithering so I’m hoping my subconscious is on some sort of an up and trying to share.

Thinking of you come Thursday. GL.

kixie August 14 2002, 07:02:34 UTC

YOU THREW OUT BOOKS!? ARE YOU NUTS!?!?

Next time just give them to me! You can't throw out BOOKS!

Is that even a fever? What's normal for centigrade? 37? 38?

Eek.

Fever delirium - fun...I usually end up babbling incoherently about baseball - apparently I once tried to swing a bat and hit mum instead.

Oops.

I assume you're feeling better which is good. Hopefully I'll see you sometime soon.

ps - FW pg 14.

zerozero August 14 2002, 13:20:26 UTC

37c is normal. 38.5 isn't crazed but it was good enough for me.

for books - see response above.

Re: kixie August 14 2002, 13:48:00 UTC

b-b-b-b-b-but...it's BOOKS!

I need to be at at least 103f to get delirious, 38.5 is what? 101.5/102f?

I know how to calculate these things, but I cba to actually do it, plus I always forget which is 9/5 and 5/9...bah. And also which is +32 and -32...come to think of it I dont know how to calculate these things.

FW pg 15!