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Ach, I MUST be a nerd. And I'm proud of it. Always have, always will be. I'm a FREAK. Not so much a geek, I'm a knowledge hungry book absorbing NERD. I sing like a nerd. Especially on those latest Aesthetics recordings.
I love the University of Otago's Central Library. It answers your questions. It is a treasure. A jewel. That which makes an otherwise paltry Dunedin life rich. Breadth and depth. More. The riddle laid bare. Answers. How did this system come about? Tear apart economic history. You'll find me in the mornings, meditating upon a tome on floor two. Its the humanities that get me - especially religion - ancient philosophy - history. Time. I think my quest is to investigate origins. And then flux. And from movement into finitude. And somewhere in between - the eternal.
Of late it is ancient Greek thought that has interested me - in Diogenes of Sinope (a Cynic) I smell a Greek Lao Tzu. Pyrrho of Elis (a Skeptic) reminds me of Chuang tzu. The crude monism of Heraclitus of Ephesus speaks of the way and its virtue. 500bc through to 500ad was a period of dynamic thought - thought that holds value even now. Especially now. I'm discovering, with the relish of a young nerd, that much Greek thought of this period was synonymous in spirit with that of the far east. I'm discovering, with the zeal of a turd, that green lentils can pretty much sustain you. Real world. Tehran travelogue. Zip file head. Lolly cake. Nationalize that oil. Rugby buttocks. Ash'n'apple. Teen. Like a dog. July - hibernation time. Just stay in. August - activity chatters and chortles and boots up . Like those first scenes in Alien. Just avoid a social LV-426, if you get my drift. Oh yeah - they're working on an Alien prequel...why do i shudder. Is it because most if not all commercial films are smothered in cgi and completely inauthentic? If the prequel is even halfway as good as Alien it'll be great. Why do i doubt this will happen? Is the art of film-making dead? Will it ever reach the sublime peak of gritty realism and spacious wonder it did in the 70s and 80s? Is the spirit dead? Is there no longer a requirement or a drive to portray sci-fi narrative in a realist fashion...has the art of PACING disappeared?