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if we subsume meaning, morality, philosophy, culture, religion, art, polity into one category what would it be called? I keep dipping into Large Language models (LLMs) and being annoyed when not disappointed. Better than neural networks? Are data-painters better than balsa-wood ships in a bottle? LLMs just do not operate where I am operating. If I was schizoid I would…

In 2023, the novelist Cormac McCarthy died. His first published work came out the year I was born. He wrote what I would call mainstream westerns & apocalypses. I’ve only read The Road. At the time there were some interviews with him re-floated, in which his low use of punctuation is given some air time, and how he got there.

writing and reading densities, the proverb, the pun, the multitool and worlding a life This post is: While in the space of making a ‘three-parter’ on the…—gap, my daughter has mentioned that she has read a few posts (in 2023) on the substack version of why we should, if only because I mentioned her in one post, and she said,…

"Literature" more generally The fable that is modern literature Anthony Burgess, fabulous writing and narcissism. Follow from Parables of Submission, Fables of Truth-Based Creativity Taphonomy examples: Denis de Rougemont’s Passion and Society Marginal note to Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (late example of de Rougemont's argument) Stupidity, Dostoyevksy & Glenorchy Boy and 'suspension of disblief' The sky pool The quote on…

Julia Kristeva, Robert Graves and a cameo by Fyodor Dostoevsky In this post I’ll try to connect two writers on the subject of the alphabet. The key theme is how alphabets by their very mnenomic natures double-down in various lifelines, or directions, one of which is writing and so… —being a writer. Writing both allows communication and better ways to…

Reading Gilles Deleuze’s Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life. Zone Books. Cambridge, Mass: MIT. 2005. ISBN9781890951252 I’ve begun a project in which I tackle writing that I find difficult to read. This in order to write in a more understandable way. That is, to see if helps put me in their shoes. I found this book by Deleuze on a dear friend’s…