tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375512083268389933.post5898622073937938306..comments2023-09-30T10:36:23.154-05:00Comments on Accidental Historian: Words Just Get in the WayGedshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15047239425466517786noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375512083268389933.post-71033817448229330502008-12-23T16:39:00.000-06:002008-12-23T16:39:00.000-06:00:D Hear, hear! Please imagine applause and one of ...:D Hear, hear! Please imagine applause and one of my singularly ungaunly attempts at celebratory dancing!Fiat Lexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10441862977921307080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375512083268389933.post-56447928486704000792008-12-23T16:11:00.000-06:002008-12-23T16:11:00.000-06:00Good catch on the Saw Doctors there...Your comment...Good catch on the Saw Doctors there...<BR/><BR/>Your comments are far from rude, as well. They are, in fact, welcome.<BR/><BR/>I actually wrote this post maybe 12 hours after I wrote "This is My Truth, Tell Me Yours, Part 6." It's no coincidence that I hit the point of healing with god and with her at the same time.<BR/><BR/>Your invocation of the diversified Muse dovetails nicely with a conversation I had with a friend last night. I mentioned the switch I made, quite subconsciously, between the us of "she" and "her" as proper noun as a convention to using the simple pronouns. He brought up the most common use of capitalization of pronouns is in cases of deification.<BR/><BR/>I'm beginning to wrap my mind around one of the more (most?) dangerous conventions of the evangelical world from which I departed. I shall be writing about it soon, but the whole single-point Muse and evolution of symbolism thing is deeply beneficial and locked something in to place that I hadn't quite pinned down.<BR/><BR/>As for the idea of the right kind of woman. My short response is yes. You're absolutely right.<BR/><BR/>My long response doesn't belong here or in any further posts, really. The proper response to truth is activity. And until I cut between the Gomers and the Golden-Haired Women to discover someone real and someone truly inspiring it does me no good to talk about her in theoretical terms.Gedshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15047239425466517786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375512083268389933.post-20730347130058653902008-12-23T10:07:00.000-06:002008-12-23T10:07:00.000-06:00Ah, more goodness.Been listening to "World of Good...Ah, more goodness.<BR/>Been listening to "World of Good" more myself these past few days! It's got a good vibe for transforming a potentially maudlin mood into one that is hopeful and optimistic.<BR/><BR/>Will you read Lois Bujold now, or have you? I didn't notice her on your shelves, but I know I've been plugging the lady for years. Wunderkind of modern sff. Baen Free Library has one of her books for free, even. Or I could lend you one. :)<BR/><BR/>Isn't it cool how one's taste for different kinds of books, music, movies, all evolve based on what personality construction one is working on? Like the body craving different foods when it's burned a lot of calories running around, or has run low on a particular vitamin.<BR/><BR/>As a person who believes (mostly) in a lot of useful invisible things, lemme say this. You can make her a symbol for your Golden-Haired Muse all you want, but it would be to your benefit to keep that symbol/person diversified. Your Muse will evolve as you evolve, the vanishing point coming to rest on different landscapes as the horizon marches on. <BR/><BR/>You make a great point about falling in love with difficulty! I know I only met her a few times, but here's more of my two cents. Nice chick to hang out with, but I wouldn't want to live there. Even if things between you went perfectly, you two never would have seen eye to eye--as you've discussed in previous posts. (I still recall the metaphor of trying to arrange one's furniture in an apartment, that was a good-un.) The gulf between your two worldviews seems to be part of what made her attractive to you. Being involved with you constituted walking on the wild side for her. Maybe seeing yourself through her eyes, seeing yourself as exotic and mysterious and difficult to control, maybe that was part of what made her attractive.<BR/><BR/>Here I venture even further into potential rudeness, with unsolicited matchmaking advice! The eternal pastime of the happily relationship-ified female. Please--forgive, indulge.<BR/><BR/>So you're looking for a real, breathing woman to be your Muse and partner. The essential quality she can't do without, is that when she looks at the world, she sees in it something you usually miss, something you value and desperately desire to see. Think of "Is She Conscious" or "The Whole of the Moon." These songs are about a woman who sees something beautiful and eternal in the world, whose soul seems to communicate effortlessly with that beauty. Her understanding of beauty is so deep she herself is hardly aware of it. The speaker, the singer, may be delighted and attracted by what she <I>is</I>, but he is absolutely blown away by what she <I>has</I>.<BR/><BR/>Which is why I keep telling you that it behooves you to worry less about women and more about the things you are talented at and love to do. I think the type of woman who is right for you would be more impressed at your ability to pay homage to the things you both value than your ability to praise her, herself. (Though like any human she probably wouldn't dislike being praised either.)<BR/><BR/>A partner who is fearful and self-centered makes it impossible to write because you are always worried about disrupting or ignoring them. Somebody, on the other hand, who looks into the universe and sees things to love and get excited about, makes it almost impossible not to write.Fiat Lexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10441862977921307080noreply@blogger.com