anticipatory departing

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Friday, 1/8 — 9:29 am

So—to follow up further from near the end of “free association”—why care whether or not poetic thinking can be rigorous?

Poetics can “yield [something importantly] reliable in our evolving reality...after humanity’s self-undermining of Godly metaphysicalism.”

So, again, why? And why care?

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Saturday, 1/9 — 7:07 pm

In yesterday’s note (above), he’s prompting himself as probable reader—making an implicit promise to follow up, by a postured expression of
his desire to do so?

I was recollectively leaving behind Thursday’s reaffirming of the value of dailiness, in terms of Monday’s obtuse questions.

This morning, I had a more convoluted version of that simple point
(with ample vanity) and a segue on astrobiology.

That was emblematic of desire to write in some very different key.

But Saturday’s seldom a good day for grand gestures. As one wise guy noted: After “Enlightenment,” the laundry still has to be done. Etc.

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