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Richard Feynmann - Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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2 books on my bedside table, the first - Richard Feynman, - "Surely your joking, Mr. Feynman" - the autobiography of the Nobel Prize winning physicist, an easy read, enjoyable principally because of the fascinating character that Mr. Feynman was.
And the other, the collected letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo, (edited) - the "edited" offends me, I want to know what was left out. I'm reading the Feynman book to stall the reading of Van Gogh's letters, already they have me rapt and I am savouring, delaying the sadness that comes with finishing a great read.
Secret Agent
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
- Hits: 1934
N*** is upstairs in the kitchen.
I'm in the basement. It's a dark decrepit basement suite-type affair, brightly lit with an unshaded single bulb on the ceiling, dark corners, the lighting is theatrical. I'm meeting, beneath the bulb, 2 people in suits, generic people, unrecognizable, one is a man, the other a woman. I think the woman is asian, but it's unimportant.
They want me to be a secret agent. The woman explains that I need to spend the next year in the basement training, they've assigned someone to work with me...I have to learn over 100 martial arts.
It seems like a lot, but the woman explains "Many of them are only a paragraph long" and I accept this.
The woman that works with me, she's dark, full figured, a pastiche of women I've known, we're still in the basement, every day it's the same, we wake up, she wants to have sex, I'm concerned because she's not teaching me anything - "Don't worry about it" she tells me, the same basement, dark in the corners, brightly lit in the center with an unshaded lightbulb, sex is routine, mechanical, a job...
It's been a year, N*** is still upstairs in the sunny kitchen, peeling onions, cooking food....She's quietly angry with me. The girl with me in the basement is still training me, she doesn't see a problem with this, every day is the same...
Halloween
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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7:00 PM, wanted to take a nap but forestalled it, the inevitable trick-or-treaters would be arriving soon, and I'm not such a curmudgeon that I'd hide to avoid giving out candy. In fact I want to give it out, just looking at it is making me sick....
But not a single caller. The street is well lit, everywhere there are pumpkins, silhouettes of cats in windows, garbage bags stuffed with leaves and done up as pumpkins...but no trick-or-treaters.
Not yet, anyways. So time for a quick post, and hope they get here soon to save me from rotting teeth and indigestion...
Dreaming of Code
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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It had to happen, so much time in front of a computer. When I waited tables there were "Waiters Nightmares" - every waiter knows what they are, you're in a restaurant where the people keep coming and you can't keep up, they're sat faster than you can serve them, a classic anxiety dream.
And now, different dreams for a different profession.
Dreams of code, visual images of sheets of numbers passing through my ears, there is no anxiety associated with these dreams, just pages and pages of numbers and code passing between my ears, as if on a ribbon. I don't understand the code in my dreams, there is no importance or value to understanding, it's just the regurgitation of a days work, numbers, letters all unwinding from my brain.
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