Multi-track Brain

Paul D. Tyson
“A general systems theory approach to consciousness, attention, and meditation”
The Psychological Record (Vol. 32 Fall 1982 pp. 491-500)

Many folks back then began with critiques of dichotomy to arrive at interesting places.

Concluding sentence:

In other words, we can maintain a meditative or receptive state while carrying on various other activities and meeting the many demands of daily life, an implication and possibility excluded by traditional dichotomous approaches.

And so for day 3132
09.07.2015

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Economies, Bodies, Art and Survival

Matt Rader
“Yellowthroat (1)”
in Ghosthawk

[…]
hung haphazardly
in your window
gallery. Art can survive

a market economy
supposedly,
but it can’t survive

outside
your body. […]
[…]

Which raises the question: and how does the body survive?

And so for day 3131
08.07.2015

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Prime Directive

William J. Higginson
The Haiku Handbook

Opener:

The primary purpose of reading and writing haiku is sharing moments of our lives that have moved us, pieces of experience and perception that we offer or receive as gifts.

Received.

And so for day 3130
07.07.2015

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Lines, Arrivals, Departures

Bruce Baugh
“Making the Difference: Deleuze’s Difference and Derrida’s Differance”
Social Semiotics Vol 73 No. 29 1997

I like this summarizing statement at the end of the essay that pickups the terms discussed earlier and delivers a nice set of lines to think through…

“There is no possible compromise between Hegel and Nietzsche,” writes Deleuze (1983: 195). Still less can there be a compromise between Deleuze’s difference, the difference of duration, forces and singularities, and Derrida’s deferrals, delays, iterations and transcendences.

Deleuze, G. 1983 Nietzsche and Philosophy Trans. H. Tomlinson.

And so for day 3129
06.07.2015

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Lost Locus Impetus

Found this note (slipped in a box of papers) and regret that there is no bibliographic information connected with it. My Internet searches yield no location for this:

Riffaterre – telos marks the difference between narration and description

But I did find (offline and in my little library), Riffaterre’s Fictional Truth where in the glossary there is an entry for “Telos: the limited options for and restrictive means towards the denouement of plot allowed by the narrative given and by the genre to which the narrative belongs.” That’s the beginning of sparks for the grey matter.

And so for day 3128
05.07.2015

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The Dangers of Deictics

Aphorisms are dangerous. This is not an aphorism.

And so for day 3127
04.07.2015

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Target Practice Trope

Reads like Quixote with its troping on the tale told and its telling: Michael Blouin, I Am Billy the Kid. It’s deliriously delightful:

You won’t find that story in any book that’s been writ except for this one that you’re reading right now and that don’t make it any less true.

which I set beside an earlier passage:

My father was right: it is best to carry a hat, and usually on your head. With a coat on your head there’s just more for people to shoot at that isn’t you.

Hats off to a tour de force.

And so for day 3126
03.07.2015

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Durations

Kenneth Rexroth
Love Poems from the Japanese
edited by Sam Hamill

We were together
Only a little while,
And we believed our love
Would last a thousand years.

Ōtomo no Yakamochi

And so for day 3125
02.07.2015

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Sticky Stars

Jim Harrison
Outlyer and Ghazals

They left her in the rain tied to the water with cobwebs,
stars stuck like burrs to her hair. I found her by wailing.

The association of burrs and stars is stuck in my mind.

And so for day 3124
01.07.2015

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A Geometric Tour

Jim Harrison
Outlyer and Ghazals

It seems we must reject the ovoid for the sphere,
the sphere for the box, the box for the eye of the needle.

And so for day 3123
30.06.2015

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