new job
fiction
edward w pritchard
It's about the worse job a college graduate could do. I just got it out of college and my Mother cried when I told her, Dad, said, glad to have me start paying back my loans; that it was a start.
I am with the damnatio memoriae unit here in Pittsburgh. It is not a government agency, but private sector, contracted from the department of aging. When a citizen is disgraced because of treason, usually failure to pay debts, our group confiscates property and destroys all records of that individual. Name, records, images,[in the case of the wealthy], and we insure that perpetuity forgets this criminal. Of course if the individual is still alive after the sentence we dispatch them.
Today we went to an old man's house. He met us politely at the door and four of us quickly went through his possessions and after about an hour the only thing left to do to remove the physical evidence of his ever had existed was documents and public records which will be gone tomorrow; for I have been approved overtime to finish erasing his memory on line tonight. Since I am the only young woman on our team, the guys I work with didn't want me around when they dispatched the old guy. That's how I got to leave early and was assigned the on line project for overtime.
We are all going to meet for a beer later tonight. It's not all that bad of a job really.
end
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
family vacation at the hotel pool
family vacation at the hotel pool
fiction
edward w pritchard
The Father was trying to listen to the 13 year old daughter patiently explain the book she was reading about Plato's Timaeus and the Mother, still a beauty, watched disapprovingly; for the daughter should be playing in the water and attracting some young male admirers. The Father an engineer, highly intelligent, can not exactly follow what the daughter was explaining but he is proud of her and sees a missing part of himself displayed by her, intellectual curiosity.
The girl was excited and is talking about Plato's cosmology. The girl has not yet lost her childhood faith in her religion and is fascinated by the ideas of Plato in the Timaeus and wants to compare them to her accepted creation explanation.
At length, the Mother who has lost a little of her instinctual love for her only daughter, but is anxious for her to be accepted this year at junior high school begins to speak to her daughter.
"Julie that blond boy on the diving board is quite good looking isn't he?"
Julie, the girl, catching on quickly lays down her book and unwraps the towel from around herself, eases into the pool and swims toward the diving area.
The Father takes a brief look at his daughter who is developing quickly and remembers why he didn't want his only daughter to buy a two piece bathing suit earlier this Summer.
fiction
edward w pritchard
The Father was trying to listen to the 13 year old daughter patiently explain the book she was reading about Plato's Timaeus and the Mother, still a beauty, watched disapprovingly; for the daughter should be playing in the water and attracting some young male admirers. The Father an engineer, highly intelligent, can not exactly follow what the daughter was explaining but he is proud of her and sees a missing part of himself displayed by her, intellectual curiosity.
The girl was excited and is talking about Plato's cosmology. The girl has not yet lost her childhood faith in her religion and is fascinated by the ideas of Plato in the Timaeus and wants to compare them to her accepted creation explanation.
At length, the Mother who has lost a little of her instinctual love for her only daughter, but is anxious for her to be accepted this year at junior high school begins to speak to her daughter.
"Julie that blond boy on the diving board is quite good looking isn't he?"
Julie, the girl, catching on quickly lays down her book and unwraps the towel from around herself, eases into the pool and swims toward the diving area.
The Father takes a brief look at his daughter who is developing quickly and remembers why he didn't want his only daughter to buy a two piece bathing suit earlier this Summer.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Meaning only conveyed, cannot be stated
Meaning only conveyed, cannot be stated
fiction
edward w pritchard
290 trillion light years from anywhere
there is a cosmic lake, not water or matter but remnants of mind,
energy, remaining after the rest is gone
each square on the surface is unique
different but the same, in various shades of orange
part of a potential ultimate whole
and each mind, one day will journey there, to that cosmic lake of energy
and will become one square on the surface of that potential larger whole square
and each mind, one of 200 billion
will, when all the original 200 billion are joined into a complete larger whole cell
then that one new larger whole cell made of the previous 200 billion
will become the first cell on a larger lake of energy
and someday the new one billion larger cells will join
each different shades of orange
and a complete ultimate mind will emerge
and began to move back across the 290 trillion light years
back home where they started from
and shall be more than will
end
fiction
edward w pritchard
290 trillion light years from anywhere
there is a cosmic lake, not water or matter but remnants of mind,
energy, remaining after the rest is gone
each square on the surface is unique
different but the same, in various shades of orange
part of a potential ultimate whole
and each mind, one day will journey there, to that cosmic lake of energy
and will become one square on the surface of that potential larger whole square
and each mind, one of 200 billion
will, when all the original 200 billion are joined into a complete larger whole cell
then that one new larger whole cell made of the previous 200 billion
will become the first cell on a larger lake of energy
and someday the new one billion larger cells will join
each different shades of orange
and a complete ultimate mind will emerge
and began to move back across the 290 trillion light years
back home where they started from
and shall be more than will
end
maneuvers in Kent Ohio
maneuvers in Kent Ohio
fiction
edward w pritchard
August 30, 2013 the US army, navy seals and the marines sealed off the City of Kent, Ohio at 9AM and didn't allow any of the citizens to move about. The military made no efforts to be civil or explain, only expediently going about their duties and goals for the day. Roads were blocked, the express way was closed and my Grand daughter and I were detained as were thousands of others. Local police and fire were not notified before hand and were in fact detained by the military, as was the city manager, counsel and numerous prominent business leaders and faculty at Kent State University.
The military personnel were not fat, polite, comical or helpful. Soldiers were well armed and came from far away from an unfamiliar part of America, perhaps Idaho. Within moments the entire city of Kent was occupied and business, commerce and everyday life was interrupted. Local radio, television and newspaper and Internet from nearby Akron, Cleveland and other places was blocked and in a matter of minutes no news or information was allowed into or out of Kent.
Over two hundred green military buses held detainees, of which I and my grand daughter were two of many and large green military helicopters patrolled the air over all of Portage County, where Kent is located. Individual soldiers wore infectious disease retarding masks and vests and randomly checked residents for various viruses.
Human soldiers were assisted by two to three hundred overhead flying drones of various sizes and various levels of technological sophistication. Although drones did not fire on any citizens of Kent they did address miscreants at times with vocal beeps and assorted warnings sounds to assist human soldiers with crowd control.
After about an hour, once the point was properly made the military immediately disappeared, without explanation or apology and the citizens were able to resume normal movement about their homeland. Four years later in Congressional hearings on the matter it was a point of pride with the military that professional soldiers and drones were able to secure an entire town without one civilian death and comparison was made to the May 4, 1970 shootings in which a semi professional home guard [Ohio National Guard] shot and killed four unarmed students in a campus demonstration.
fiction
edward w pritchard
August 30, 2013 the US army, navy seals and the marines sealed off the City of Kent, Ohio at 9AM and didn't allow any of the citizens to move about. The military made no efforts to be civil or explain, only expediently going about their duties and goals for the day. Roads were blocked, the express way was closed and my Grand daughter and I were detained as were thousands of others. Local police and fire were not notified before hand and were in fact detained by the military, as was the city manager, counsel and numerous prominent business leaders and faculty at Kent State University.
The military personnel were not fat, polite, comical or helpful. Soldiers were well armed and came from far away from an unfamiliar part of America, perhaps Idaho. Within moments the entire city of Kent was occupied and business, commerce and everyday life was interrupted. Local radio, television and newspaper and Internet from nearby Akron, Cleveland and other places was blocked and in a matter of minutes no news or information was allowed into or out of Kent.
Over two hundred green military buses held detainees, of which I and my grand daughter were two of many and large green military helicopters patrolled the air over all of Portage County, where Kent is located. Individual soldiers wore infectious disease retarding masks and vests and randomly checked residents for various viruses.
Human soldiers were assisted by two to three hundred overhead flying drones of various sizes and various levels of technological sophistication. Although drones did not fire on any citizens of Kent they did address miscreants at times with vocal beeps and assorted warnings sounds to assist human soldiers with crowd control.
After about an hour, once the point was properly made the military immediately disappeared, without explanation or apology and the citizens were able to resume normal movement about their homeland. Four years later in Congressional hearings on the matter it was a point of pride with the military that professional soldiers and drones were able to secure an entire town without one civilian death and comparison was made to the May 4, 1970 shootings in which a semi professional home guard [Ohio National Guard] shot and killed four unarmed students in a campus demonstration.
Germaine Greer and Authur Schopenhaur
Germaine Greer and Author Schopenhauer
fiction
edward w pritchard
Authur Schopenhauer was a misogynist but a major western philosopher. After his Father died he inherited and devoted his life to philosophy taking up the quest to answer Hume and continue and refine the groundbreaking work of Immanuel Kant. Schopenhauer, a bitter man, attacked in writing his contemporaries Hegel, Schelling and even his former professor Fichte. Schopenhauer's attacks on these three men, all three career academics working in State run Universities in a semi police state; were vicious and vindictive and among the most invective ad hominem attacks in all of written scholarly history.
Schopenhauer came to hate his Mother who ran a salon, an intellectual "club" for sophisticates of her day. As a young man Schopenhauer left his Mother and never spoke with her again. Later he wrote "On Women" a vicious attack against what he calls the second sex. Calling women undersized,narrow shouldered, broad hipped, and short legged; Schopenhauer criticizes all women, up to his time [written 1851], as having no sense of justice and strangely, and what seems to perturbs him most, talking in theaters [ untimely and inappropriately].
Germaine Greer wrote the "Female Eunuch" a million seller and has been a feminist and celebrity most of her adult life. She writes well, is an excellent researcher, and has an original position on many of the issues of the times. However, at least according to urban mythology, in Wikipedia, Professor Lisa Jardine, recalled the first time she met Greer, at a formal dinner in college:
The principal called us to order for the speeches. As a hush descended, one person continued to speak, too engrossed in her conversation to notice, her strong Australian accent reverberating around the room...{ authors note- Greer is Australian]
Newsflash at least once Germaine Greer the feminist spoke out of turn in "theaters"
Schopenhauer was right at least in part. However, there have been many allegations that Schopenhauer may have liked "boys, and if alive to judge Greer, he wouldn't notice [ unlike this author notices] that Germnaine Greer is quite good looking and Greer's theater talking may be forgivable for that reason alone. Ms Greer might just chuckle about the whole issue, concerning her and Schopenhauer, because she also seems to like young boys, having published on the subject-see "The Beautiful Boy' Greer-2003.
In summary Schopenhauer although brilliant wrote a vindictive attack against women in " On Women" lumping all individuals together. Greer also a very controversial figure, treats the subject of human sexuality more lightly, and even when raking the male clan over the coals so to speak, seems to keep a sense of humor and to recognize individual differences in culture are a factor in the war between the sexes. Lastly as an aside although the author does find Ms. Greer attractive, he is not one of the stalkers, sworn by restraining order to stay away from her.
fiction
edward w pritchard
Authur Schopenhauer was a misogynist but a major western philosopher. After his Father died he inherited and devoted his life to philosophy taking up the quest to answer Hume and continue and refine the groundbreaking work of Immanuel Kant. Schopenhauer, a bitter man, attacked in writing his contemporaries Hegel, Schelling and even his former professor Fichte. Schopenhauer's attacks on these three men, all three career academics working in State run Universities in a semi police state; were vicious and vindictive and among the most invective ad hominem attacks in all of written scholarly history.
Schopenhauer came to hate his Mother who ran a salon, an intellectual "club" for sophisticates of her day. As a young man Schopenhauer left his Mother and never spoke with her again. Later he wrote "On Women" a vicious attack against what he calls the second sex. Calling women undersized,narrow shouldered, broad hipped, and short legged; Schopenhauer criticizes all women, up to his time [written 1851], as having no sense of justice and strangely, and what seems to perturbs him most, talking in theaters [ untimely and inappropriately].
Germaine Greer wrote the "Female Eunuch" a million seller and has been a feminist and celebrity most of her adult life. She writes well, is an excellent researcher, and has an original position on many of the issues of the times. However, at least according to urban mythology, in Wikipedia, Professor Lisa Jardine, recalled the first time she met Greer, at a formal dinner in college:
The principal called us to order for the speeches. As a hush descended, one person continued to speak, too engrossed in her conversation to notice, her strong Australian accent reverberating around the room...{ authors note- Greer is Australian]
Newsflash at least once Germaine Greer the feminist spoke out of turn in "theaters"
Schopenhauer was right at least in part. However, there have been many allegations that Schopenhauer may have liked "boys, and if alive to judge Greer, he wouldn't notice [ unlike this author notices] that Germnaine Greer is quite good looking and Greer's theater talking may be forgivable for that reason alone. Ms Greer might just chuckle about the whole issue, concerning her and Schopenhauer, because she also seems to like young boys, having published on the subject-see "The Beautiful Boy' Greer-2003.
In summary Schopenhauer although brilliant wrote a vindictive attack against women in " On Women" lumping all individuals together. Greer also a very controversial figure, treats the subject of human sexuality more lightly, and even when raking the male clan over the coals so to speak, seems to keep a sense of humor and to recognize individual differences in culture are a factor in the war between the sexes. Lastly as an aside although the author does find Ms. Greer attractive, he is not one of the stalkers, sworn by restraining order to stay away from her.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
good will shakespeare or very bad will
good will Shakespeare or very bad will
fiction
edward w pritchard
It must have been difficult for Will Shakespeare presumably the wittiest writer of all time to be kind to his enemies, turn the other cheek, and move forward and not humiliate or annihilate with words those who injured him. As the king of the one liners he could have enjoyed jousting with his pen and not let bygones be bygones and not just walk away from his friends and others transgressions against him.
Alas unlike Will we must be civil, stick to our cynicism and passive aggressiveness and walk though our back be stuck full of swords; and leave those in peace who don't get mad but even, and us not follow their example.
fiction
edward w pritchard
It must have been difficult for Will Shakespeare presumably the wittiest writer of all time to be kind to his enemies, turn the other cheek, and move forward and not humiliate or annihilate with words those who injured him. As the king of the one liners he could have enjoyed jousting with his pen and not let bygones be bygones and not just walk away from his friends and others transgressions against him.
Alas unlike Will we must be civil, stick to our cynicism and passive aggressiveness and walk though our back be stuck full of swords; and leave those in peace who don't get mad but even, and us not follow their example.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
america's not great britain-chelsea clinton's wedding
america's not great britain--chelsea clinton's wedding
fiction
edward w pritchard
Since the Mayflower days America's been struggling to live up to the pomp and cultural heritage of Great Britain. While we look across our noses at their fascination with royalty and we favorably compare Harvard and Princeton with Oxford and Cambridge; in truth we American's secretly envy and are in a little awe of the British cultural Heritage. True Faulkner and Melville were great writers but English words flow from Britain's great writers seemingly effortlessly, Tennyson, Shakespeare and a slew of others will overwhelm the American reader with routine flashes of divine inspiration cutting,inserting, and refining English words to define our cultures peculiarities.
Now I see the American marketing industry, of which we are the undisputed best in the world, now and before, is trying to present the wedding of Ex-President Clinton's daughter as a Princess Diana type tale and romance.
The Clinton's seem like the family down the street to me. With all due respect their melodrama is all too familiar and if I were to meet the Mr. or Mrs at the gym while I would nod respectfully they wouldn't seem all that different than me and my neighbors. More intelligent maybe but both human all to human.
I am curious to see if the American marketing machine pulls this off and is able to day by day promote Chelsey Clinton's wedding as a fabled romance.
fiction
edward w pritchard
Since the Mayflower days America's been struggling to live up to the pomp and cultural heritage of Great Britain. While we look across our noses at their fascination with royalty and we favorably compare Harvard and Princeton with Oxford and Cambridge; in truth we American's secretly envy and are in a little awe of the British cultural Heritage. True Faulkner and Melville were great writers but English words flow from Britain's great writers seemingly effortlessly, Tennyson, Shakespeare and a slew of others will overwhelm the American reader with routine flashes of divine inspiration cutting,inserting, and refining English words to define our cultures peculiarities.
Now I see the American marketing industry, of which we are the undisputed best in the world, now and before, is trying to present the wedding of Ex-President Clinton's daughter as a Princess Diana type tale and romance.
The Clinton's seem like the family down the street to me. With all due respect their melodrama is all too familiar and if I were to meet the Mr. or Mrs at the gym while I would nod respectfully they wouldn't seem all that different than me and my neighbors. More intelligent maybe but both human all to human.
I am curious to see if the American marketing machine pulls this off and is able to day by day promote Chelsey Clinton's wedding as a fabled romance.
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