a conceptual spirit constellating consilience

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preface to more-conceptual venturing:

• a conceptual spirit of telos
• for constellating interdomainal thought
• evincing telic consilience from appellant cohering

—not yet the interdomainal flourishing anticipated last week,
but I’m getting there, maybe later than sooner because my desire
to work more conceptually is presently more appealing.

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spring 2026

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I took a moment to simply google the phrase “gary e. davis berkeley conceptual design,” which gave me a creepy result. You can’t believe he’s not an ambitiously practical guy. (The occasion was news I happed to read that Google had today vastly improved the A.I. efficacy of their search feature. I happened to be making a note about conceptual design.)

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May 16

Three months of links to recent literary discussions have been moved to my main project, all together in sequence under the title “Literature21.”

This week, I’ve finished a very difficult (often tedious) path of work
on conceptuality which I mentioned April 17 below. Now (by next Saturday?) I want to narratively path toward that highland by rendering senses of literary flourishing as comparative thinking.

What can I say? I love to write.
May 23: And I netweave fot fun.

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endearing fabulations

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Heightening a conception of “Literary” living seems at best these days to dissolve into prospecting comparative thought calling from appellant horizons.

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light houses

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“What, after all, is the function of great literature if not to enhance
the human endeavor and raise its potential beyond what is otherwise conceivable?  As Toni Morrison said in her acceptance speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, literary artists mine the resources of language
to produce ‘illuminations none of us has dreamed of’.”

from Literary Studies and Human Flourishing, “Introduction,” p. 1 

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i am text you bring to life

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I doubt you care much that “Literature” may be better understood as glyphical narrative appealing for invocation yet.

No worries, just cohering.

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winter 2026

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I have updates on literary-conceptual work, but I want a couple of days to add at the same time more than I have today. Coming.

The death of Jürgen Habermas last weekend caused me to do some updating of my Facebook/Habermas page. Also, I spent too much time defending Habermas at a couple of Heidegger discussion pages, which seems to have been a waste of time. One venture became a blog posting: “response to ambivalent praise for Habermas.”

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creating novel wilderness isn’t about tourism

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prospecting more about literary creativity.

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more away into high textual craft

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Three more sections of a manifold exploration of “literary” dramactionality today: “being literary,” “the humanistic origin of literary texting,” and “the usual ‘“Literature’.”

My venturing will have many sections, later to be listed as a single set of cohering discussions.

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a way into literary venturing

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As if implicit dramaticness of daily life is as textual as real interaction can be like reading each other’s situational authorships.

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authorship of authoriality

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Self-differentiation through writing as speech;

self-withholding in writing for an audience through an appropriate degree of candor, etc.;

receptiveness as “reading” another person;

writing the author of a silent text: Is it perceiving, creating, projecting?

Is the inferred author (the authorship) some weird mirror of one’s capability, preference, self-begetting?—

All of that is happening in non-“literary” life.

experiencing ordinary days as almost literary

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Today’s discussion begins a series on literary venturing.

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intelligent design

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Rationality should be understood relative to life-orienting Purposes
of flourishing, rather than relative to near-term goals which are means for bettering the quality of one’s life.

resorts of higher souls

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I suppose many researchers and artists feel as if the soul of their genius destined them to find high resort away from tyranny.

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gardening aspiration

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“Of philological gardening” recalls themes from autumn postings
(after a hermetic preface) as practical rationale for aspirational venturing through winter’s want of spring.

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