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contours provocations
journal - 2004-0123 - 2130 Noirish; Razor's Edge; "Cream Heaver" Tuesday evening I wrote the first part of my 21st century version of a noirish short story. Wednesday, I stayed home and coughed and sneezed. I'd been to the clinic last week, so I thought I was feeling better. Obviously not. Thursday, I stayed home in the morning and coughed and sneezed and went to work around noon. Last week, I was having trouble finding something to read. (You'd realize how funny this was if you saw my living room.) I picked up W. Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge."
The title comes from a quote from the "Katha-Upanishad."
It's a study of a series of friends and acquiantances that Maugham meets in Chicago, London and Paris after WWI. That by no means does it justice. One of the charcters is Larry who is on a quest for spirtual answers. And he eventually finds it in the Hindu religious system of Vedanta. Larry is one of those extraordinary individuals you wish you knew. Today at work I spent most of the time archiving streaming audio files to the web site. This is an on-going process, and I'd gotten behind. I've tried to find ways to simplify the business, and I've come up with some tricks, but it is still labor-intensive. Ideally when the files are created, two versions would be generated. One in wav format; the other, rm format. But we're not that sophisticated. Actually, you'd need ram files also. The rest of the time I tried to figure out how to transfer a document into a suitable html format. The original document is a schedule of events, with as many at 20 per day, for the month of February. So it is a large file. I'm using the defacto standard package for web page development. (Rhythms with Cream Heaver.) And when I left at five, I was fairly certain I knew what to do. Not painless, but slightly less onerous. PAX! journal | archives | home | e-mail |
"You are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant and show a preference for visual learning, although not extreme in either characteristic. You probably tend to do most things in moderation, but not always.
Your left-hemisphere dominance implies that your learning style is organized and structured, detail oriented and logical. Your visual preference, though, has you seeking stimulation and multiple data. Such an outlook can overwhelm structure and logic and create an almost continuous state of uncertainty and agitation. You may well suffer a feeling of continually trying to 'catch up' with yourself."
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