Accepting zombies

would be easier if we didnt walk upright. In movie space, we are not that particular on being our feet.

The Innocents Abroad

One can never tell what sentence affects a reader.

In Kratchner Caverns Neil Miller included the following from Mark Twains book, The Innocents Abroad:

The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its silence and solitude, its shrouding gloom, its sepulchral echoes, its fleeting lights, and more than all, its sudden revelations.

Only part way into the book, I havent come across this sentence. So I will be on the look out. My pick from his Versailles trip :

The trees in no two avenues are shaped alike, and consequently the eye is not fatigued with anything in the nature of monotonous uniformity.

Next time I have a complaint with the landscape, I will try to see how one rock is different from another. Or make an imaginary one of my own.

Brother West

I came to this book, after coming across glib Cornel west in Examined Life.

His childhood behaviour piques the reader's curiosity about his future, which known, has one interested in knowing of what caused the turn around. A Good story's element.

A formulation was taking shape in my mind and heart: that the centrality of vocation is predicated on finding ones voice and putting forth a vision.

Louis Kahn's architecture

Looking into this Salk Institute picture, at the ground, it makes me wonder if I am looking at the length of the building. When a gull takes off parallel to it, even then I let the length of it speak.

Where the nouns may lead

When I read Ramses the Great in National Geographic's april 1991 version, I did not think of what I would remember and what not. Today reading of Wayne Shorter's Nefertiti, I was reminded of Istnofret. When words in our domain, become connecting words to new ones, the net widens. Now I have to include Nefertari to that. That speaks for our initial resistance to it.

can we predict sound?

When a person opens a door behind you, you expect it to close in a decent 30sec or so and do not get alarmed when it closes. Recently I found myself shuttering my eyes at a delayed closing of the door. To begin with there was an unexpected movement in the front with a persons appearing but the door shutting amplified it. Can the brain get confused with auditory and visual inputs this way if they dont meet the scheduled occurences?

Catalogue

Recently a student approached a music teacher, to learn to recognise songs. When the teacher realised that the student did not want to learn to sing, he was dismissed. When I heard Low Down of Boz Scaggs, I had already researched on the song and the singer and knew that I could recognise his name if I saw it again. When going through the newsletter of Palo Duro Canyon it was a eureka moment. I had a recent bout of frustration in pinning down India Arie's song Promises. The coffee shop where I first heard it could not place it as it was run as an assortment. Should they not have a catalogue like the assortment chocolate box where the pictures match the name? Now to recognise a song this way from a bunch of them, would call for time on the listeners part. There should be an LCD display of the active song.
Going back to the not yet student, the teacher lost a chance to make a music student.