Hi Jay, thanks for the welcome-back greeting. It's lunch time, so I guess I can kick off the shoes and go back a few days - the thread will not mind -... I guess I would make a poor Walter Mitty, but wth - here it comes
Daydreams of a phenotype
place: Island Brac (say bruch, like in [crutch] and you have it) in Adria, eastern coast, facing the town of Split, 15 miles on the left, The Biokovo ridge on the mainland in front of you.
time and weather: 10:30 AM, sunny, cloudless with 31C air, 24C water. Light (<3B) NW breeze - it's the Maestral, the fair-weather messenger wind of the Azores anticyclone -.
on the subject of senses:
Eyes: yellow, electric green fir trees, interspersed with blue-black cypresses, grey-green olives, built into the grey to ochre stony landscape, everything has strong black shadows, ultramarine sea, bright cyan skies
Tongue: black wine, olive oil, morning cofee, garlic
Nose: trees, sage, laurel, sun-hot white stone, a whiff of sea salt
Ears: silence, a chirp or two of sleepy crickets, a wave from a passing boat hitting the coast below, a muted word or two between our hosts downstairs, silence again - flat signal
Skin: coarse rock surface under bare feet, oozing acryl on the legs, from the paint brush that's connecting with the white rectangle, jeering at me:"Go ahead, you punk, make my day"
body feels sun, water, heat, a rare mosquito visit, sweat washed away by the endless sea
mind
paints: "look,to paint THIS you could have just as well stayed home " says my wife (first few times and then she starts to get it).
reads:"Collected works" of Gottfried Benn and "Collected works" of Robert Musil (the young Toerless)
thinks: freedom, myth, Art, Ethics, Estetics, Kant-Fichte-Hegel-Marx/Nietzsche
CUT
Yesterday I went through Fleck memorabilia 21st - 30th aug, been to the gym this morning to work myself back into form ("form? what form?"). Looked up FNM (unfortunately no puts this side of the ocean) and Topix - found some - so...
I'm back to normal ;
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