Comments from the friend

Yes, yes, and this post, below, and the one below it, are perfect blog material even if you do re-write HJames'
short story a few years from now--- and I'm sure Mikey Montaigne would be happy to be part of POLYSOMETHING in
the references below, whether or not you respond any more fully to his ancient postings.

Get with it, bro, it's your jabberwocky that's of interest--- the a.d.d. of your sinuous mental gambol & gyre is the stuff of
blogs because it pours out of you daily, and entertainingly. Just logging by blogging all the concepts for projects--- that, ridiculous and fine, flow from your brain-led fingers. Get your brain on the page, blogboy--- how hard is it to enter this stuff on POLYSOMETHING--- if that's what's stopping you, you need a new blog program, and I'm not just blabbing'!

R>

On Dec 7, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Dennis Hermanson wrote:

I am of mixed minds about the blogs. I think that I am trying to

center on doing another few things. One of them is a re-write of a

Henry James short story. I will send along link to it, since it's pd.

The other is a ongoing series of "letters" AKA blog reponses to

Michele, actually, a correspondence, in both senses of the word and

concept, to Michel d'Montaigne.

"The question is not who will hit the ring, but who will make the best

runs at it."

and

(he's talking about drunkeness, but I like his preamble...

"there are vices wherein there is a mixture of knowledge, diligence,

valor, prudence, dexterity and address; this one is totally corporeal

and earthly."

That there are vices that are a mixture of knowledge, diligence,

valor, prudence, dexterity and address... I love this. Name the vices.

And then, hey, I am a combination of all of those. That's what I like

about his writing. It's an "amble" through a mind, a deep and

inquiring mind, that I would like to know, and

THEN REPOND TO, as if I were writing him personally a letter in

response. Or in riff on a response. A walk in the woods of the mind.

That's the idea.

Polysomething is good, but it's a klunky attempt at a concept that

holds everything, a container for thought, as Jung titled his book,

"memories, dreams and reflections." That goes for thought memories,

dreams and reflections as well as images, that are memories (old

photos, the history of art, movies, etc etc) dreams (both mine, ours

and collective, sleep and imagination) and reflections, both thought,

and image, correspondences, shadows, glimmers, windows, mirrors, and

ultimately, consciousness of the self as a reflection of the world and

self.

Yeah, like all that.

d