Scholastic Standards

L. Schola: “leisure.”
School: leisure time
Scholastic Standards
& Committees
for leisure

(Dear Graham, I wouldn't mind volunteering
to serve on this committee or something
similar in spirit. It would be transformative.)

xxxooo, Sam

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“He was planning to study chimp
vocalizations and facial expressions.”

*****

“The gnarled narcissism of old age.”

^^^^^^
Compared to balding narcissism of middle
age, or the smooth-as-a- baby’s-butt
narcissism of the young.

Non-Instrumental Reading’s like walking
through a field or mall. This or that catches
my eye. Provokes my natural selection.
The rest: ignorance.

Dale Peterson’s Jane Goodall provided
the first line above; a review of
Grey Gardens: the second.

Balding and baby’s butt piqued by “gnarling”:
recalls what walks on 3 legs in the evening,
2 at noon, all 4’s in the morning.

(Narcissus didn’t know he was narcissistic.
His image in the pond had him in thrall,
sure—but he thought it was some

Other.

No self-love intended.
Could have been a monkey.
Imagination, alienation: cave wall.)

The ages & stages of man kind.
We distinguish: chimp smile from
frown; youth from middle-aged
& old as if sequential and not
simultaneous.
.
The heart of thinking = drawing
distinctions & telling differences.

The other heart of thinking: relating..

A third heart of thinking: representing.

Seemingly sequential but actually allatonce.
Simultaneous. Eternal.

It also helps if I can get any one else to go
along with my distinctions, relations, and
representations.

Four hearts of thinking, then. Not
complicated till I try and carry IT out.
Put IT in play. Build a shared shining.
Edify. Otherwise: pure idiocy.



ex cellence going on
(“view from above, from the column”)

exquisite. too
(“from the quest or question”)