So much too note & such reluctance to type it (oh envy for descendance who will mentally cut & paste, able to reGoogle at any time ;) Explore paper piles at foot of bed (dreaming of electic sheaves ?) No time for the Sophistics of HYPNOETICS (Oh, the fuzziness of modal logics burns like this buzz in my butt from sitting too angularly on the bed ;( Such narrow appointments. Long overdue.. AH, but here is Thomas Colchie's Book World tribute from 04-08-22 to Julio Cortazar and "aleatory games of chance encounters in the maze of Paris streets" (somewhat like the web woven by our Ariadne of the D/G list ;) ever anonymous as Julio tags: "we will write with chalk on the wall of the commissariat these things that someday will be understood even there".
Trickling down into submarine homesick blues _Around the Day in 80 Worlds_ of Jules Verne print out marching men beneath the dangling tentacles of Portuguese Men of War to find another world at the bottom of the sea, "With Justifiable Pride", the city that ever sweeps: "None of us recalls the text of the law that obliges us to collect dead leaves, but we are convinced that it would not occur to anyone to leave them uncollected ... it's part of the customs of the country and needs no justification"! "So these things seem so natural to us that it is only rarely and with great effort that we can ask the questions ... we are all indignant ... the resistance [we] encounter can only be attributed to a stupid and senseless foreign pride... Therefore we will never know - nor do we wish to know, it goes without saying - what becomes of our glorious wounded", marching on..
Michael Dirda points out (last week's Book World) that "In France, Verne is now studied as a major literary figure" and _The Begum's Millions_ from 1879 is "best read as a cautionary political fable, part dystopian satire, part Dickensian social tract", of the still eternally returning struggle between the "Kindly Dr.Sarrasin [who] envisions a germ-free sanitary city where public health is the chief concern of the government", and the evil Prof.Schultze who "wants to prove the superiority of the 'Saxon' over the 'Latin' by building a 'City of Steel' devoted to the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction".
Flipping to an earlier page where "Tyrants concoct propaganda in ministries of information; democracies produce it through habits of thought so ingrained that a basic lie of war - only the good is our doing - becomes self-propagating" (Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 04-05-05).
"Essence individualizes and determines the substances in which it is incarnated ... the splendid diversity ... [occurs] because essence is in itself difference... Difference and repetition are only apparently in opposition... This is because difference, as the quality of a world, is affirmed only through a kind of autorepetition that traverses the various media and reunites different objects" (Deleuze, _Proust & Signs_ 48-49).
"The difference between what follows logically and what follows actually cannot be due to the conflict of two different orders of existence, one logical and the other natural. An existing logical order would be something metaphysical, a monster half essence and half force. The difference must be due rather to two levels of natural organization, one cosmic and inanimate, the other animate and proper to the innate involution of the psyche in man, which opens to his imagination and reason paths other than those actually traced by outer nature even in his own action or explicit discourse" (509, Edman's _The Philosophy of Santayana_, from ch7 "The Basis of Dialectic" in _The Realm of Essence_, 1927..)
mark of the (still) infected, nothing much original..
