Thanks, Nuria, for posting this to the air-l listserv!
oh...just me: April 2005 Archives
Is solipsism an attempt at control - to order the universe, refute or seek to deny the effects of stochasticism?
For instance, I know someone who occasionally describes themself as "insular", which may be true. It's one thing, though, to hold one's own counsel, and another to create a worldview and interpretation of events and others that excludes other viewpoints. I think this is what solipsism really means? This piece, Solipsism and the Problem of Other Minds. I have to grapple with how this relates to and interacts with intersubjectivity. Or plural singularity, as we discussed in Briankle's class last night based on Jean-Luc Nancy's piece, "Banks, Edges, Limits (of singularity)".
Kirsten just checked in about the ladybugs around the house. It's a springtime New England thing, I think? It's happened in the houses I've lived in here - Halifax, Dummerston. Now at Carolyn's. She said they're following me. Don't I wish! Once I got 35 painted stone ladybugs for my birthday. I miss I miss. sigh
But it is an absolutely GORGEOUS day, and I'm on a roll. Grief (loss) is simply becoming a permanent part of my embodied existence. And - I have not become bitter. That is an achievement.
Well. For all the angst I went through the dress was a bit of a let down. My students just took it as a performance, as in not real, or otherwise downplayed it. Or so the discussion went. Several people admitted to a bit of a jolt when they first saw me, a couple of students blurted something out immediately. :-) Nothing bad. :-)
Started seeing Kate again.
Was exhausted, still, this morning after 9 hours of sleep. Chattered away like Hannah Mae on happy gas. :-) Processed my experience in Enoch's class Tuesday afternoon....need to journal about that! Feeling a bit s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d with everything I need to get done before leaving (in a month!), and also with the strain (?) of shifting among the various life currents I'm being swept along in/am in the flow of.
Jennifer sends along this quote:
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
# 184 in the section on "practical morality" in In pursuit of virtue: Al-Akhlâq wa’l-Siyar (Morals and Behaviour) By Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi describes these in a bit more detail.
