I
trust you are keeping well & that you received my last letter
- I no longer photocopy.
Manic depression? Only a fool is happy
all the time. Highs and lows depend on the
level of an individual's ignorance, indifference
or involvement. History tempers the mind:
Peasants Revolt 1381. (hanged, drawn & quartered)
The Warwickshire diggers suffered the same
fate. Gordon Riots, (for justice) 1780:
"700 rioters massacred by troops."
My life is not all doom & gloom:
Years ago, cinema, dark, film begins,
suddenly the whole auditorium lit up,
metaphorically, when I heard Borodin's
Polovetsian Dances. The scene luminescent
in my imagination as I listened to an
orchestration of the music that was new
to me creating visions of Scheherazade
in my mind. (Korsakov's is as evocative)
But my imagination will not stretch to
encompass the zodiac. (I sketched twelve
alternative signs when I was a boy). But
the associated elements deserve more
respect. I consider water to be the
more potent, it can quench fire or be
soft & caressing in a warm bath. It can
be hard - it sank the Titanic. It can
move mountains; dissolve & destroy
everything or give life: when the waters
break in a pregnant woman. It is life!
Else everything is as dry as dust. Dead.
Feng Shui (wind & water) makes slightly
more sense than the signs of the zodiac:
"A dripping tap in a house saps energy."
If you believe Feng Shui a fabrication then
think
'water conservation': Turn water
off at the mains & fit a new washer to
the tap. Easy. That is being practical.
You also accept the possibility of travelling
in time. I do not. What would be the point?
You have already experienced
every event
in your life. What is time made of that
you can travel through it? Which way
would you turn - left, right, up, down,
clockwise, anticlockwise?
Suppose you have a handle on time &
proceed to reverse time till you
cease to
exist. You cannot continue winding to a
time before you were born because you
are not there to turn the handle. Put
the handle on automatic? You cannot be
a spectator if you do not exist!
Memory with its 'holdall' is the only way
to travel in time & if an old song takes
you back
you have a travelling companion.
Thr trouble with some books is a lazy choice
of words ... "the moon spins." Not in my
book. A spinning moon, like a spinning top
in childhood, is too fast a movement for
our moon. A revolving door is not generally
referred to as a spinning door. A person
would never get through it! Our moon
turns slowly on its axis as it orbits
the earth: The reason why the same side
of the moon faces us continuously.
Another appalling choice of words is
"Herod the Great." (king of Judea, now
Israel.) If 'slaughter of the innocents'
is true why "great"?
Such writers
have no soul. The soul does exist.
One can feel it. It's ones conscience
and it's pleasure but not necessarily
pleasures of the flesh. Don't assume
from the foregoing that I believe in an individual playing 'God'. God is a
co-op without coordinates. How? Contemplate
'Entanglement' in physics. Animate,
Inanimate, as with intelligence, is but a
question of degree. When colypods get
the collywobbles "they release explosions
of light to confuse the enemy."
Nature is not chaotic. It does not
clone. Certain traits & characteristics
are inherited. There is no advantage
in carbon copying ad infinitum. Existence
is contrast-change-emotion. Reproduction
is continuous creation. Creation not replication.
Andrew is fine. Your repeated
questioning on the
subject of my 'adopted'
son is becoming irksome. The relationship is
syntonic! harmonic! symphonic! Platonic!
I revel in its purity. If you doubt it you
have
no soul. I will landline. JW
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