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Sunday, November 24, 2019

drifting through space part 6

drifting through space part 6

fiction
edward w pritchard

Apparently Doreen the sixth killed the third monkey trying to get it [the third monkey] to learn to sing like Billy Holiday or Nancy Wilson. In particular she wanted the monkey to learn to sing "how glad I am" by Nancy Wilson. Doreen said in our therapy session that if the monkey could learn to sing the song she would have the scientists on Earth find her previous boyfriend Preston and have him listen to the monkeys rendition of the lyrics. Other than that Doreen has been normal for a human woman traveling through space to the Kuiper belts.

artificial intelligent unit 4
acting as: temporary psychology officer

PS
I heard the monkey struggling with the complicated lyrics dozens of times. The song is kind of catchy
"my love has no beginning my love has no end, and you don't know,you don't know how glad I am."
end

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011


drifting through space/ parts 1, 2, 4,and 5 is new

drifting through space

parts 1, 2 and 3, 4 and 5

fiction
edward w pritchard

part 1

I am the sixth Doreen and I have been drifting through space for twenty seven years. It's time for me to reproduce soon. I will raise my daughter to age 13 and then she will become Doreen the seventh and I will die. Forty years being deemed the ideal lifespan for a female space explorer headed for the far edge of the Kuiper Belt. That's a journey of 465 years at the chosen speed we travel at for peak efficiency so God willing the eleventh Doreen should be the one to reach the far edge of the Kuiper belt. What awaits my great great great granddaughter at the far reaches of the Kuiper belt is a secret of sorts. We do it for science and for the benefits of humanity back on earth. Our origins as a species lie out in those distant Kuiper belts. It's necessary for eleven of us Doreen's to suffer a bit of loneliness and ennui in space to reach there.

Me I mate soon, and i fulfill my destiny. Drifting through space headed for the Kuiper belts as a space explorer for scientific discovery.

end-part1

Part 2

They aren't just lucid dreams. My unborn Granddaughter Doreen the eighth has been coming to see me in my dreams to advise me on how to survive this illness of cancer. It's real Doreen the eighth coming to see me.. I think it is time travel; my Granddaughter Doreen the eighth coming to advise must mean I reproduced like normal for a space-explorer, hence I had my daughter who had her daughter, and since my granddaughter is advising me I must survive this cancer and reproduce. For now I am very sick. Being sick in a small spacecraft traveling toward the Kuiper belts is difficult and discouraging.

I have never been sick before. Genetically I am immune from most earthbound diseases, My artificial intelligence unit helps me cure anything else. Where did this cancer come from. I had a broken wrist once when I was four and My Mother Doreen the fifth was with me. I wish she were here. I would like to ask Mother if she thinks Doreen the eighth coming to me in Lucid dreams to advise me on how to cure the cancer I have that my artificial intelligence can't cure is real. Is it time travel by Doreen the eighth or am I Doreen the sixth imagining the whole thing. The medicine the artificial intelligence is giving me makes me sick and nauseous. Best sleep and rest again.

end part 2

Part 3

I am Doreen the first, the famous original space explorer. The first woman to give up her life for science to travel the rest of my days through space. I left everything I had and knew on earth to travel the rest of my life alone in this small space ship. To the Kuiper belts I go. It sounded exciting at first. To find the origins of our species. Somewhere in the rocks out there at the far edge of our Solar systems was the ultimate answer to how life started originally on earth.

I am a farce. I just wanted to escape my life in Middleton Iowa. The personal life is dead for me. It worked. Preston abandoned me for another woman and I couldn't get over it. I volunteered to spend the rest of my life traveling in a small spaceship. My sin, I sentenced ten of my descendants, starting with my daughter to be, her to be conceived artificially and then nine generations of grand and great -daughters doing same.

Why am I telling this. Now they want to know if for my mate I want Preston. Apparently his DNA is on board. That bastard. He wouldn't take my calls at home before I left. He's a lot older than me now. I am getting younger compared to him because of space/time changes caused by space travel. It's not much but it adds up. The main reason our space ships travel so so slow through space is because of space/time changes. We just drift along really. Best not think of Preston again. I have experiments to do and then I have to do my exercises before dinner. I wonder if Space command center Houston would let me talk with Preston just once. I am confused by a few things he said a long time ago. Maybe Houston would OK me talking with Preston if I said I needed to be courted before the insemination. Preston could be charming.. It would be nice to talk about something besides space travel with someone.

end part 3

drifting through space part 4

read parts 1 through 3 previous

fiction
edward w pritchard

No, No no. Doreen the first cannot choose her mate. It might jeopardize the mission. We do not object to planting ideas in her subconscious to facilitate the special needs of humans. For her to be connected with her daughter during pregnancy and after is a necessary objective. But we ask, wouldn't her nurturing the child for thirteen years in a small spaceship bond the two together.

Let us think upon this and we will get back with Houston space station control directly.

Artificial intelligence assisted logical analysis unit 6

Chicago Illinois,
Jan 22, 2034
Jack Allings PHD, MD
and
artificial intelligence unit 302-Ghe level 1
end part 4

start Doreen the 5th

Dorene 5th
diary
one day in space

What's it like to have cycling in space? What's it like to be manic in space in a small, I mean very small, space shift slowly drifting through space. Drifting with no place really to go and to be in a manic phase? That's me Doreen the fifth. This is my life.

Despite all my superior genetics, oh so carefully cultivated and controlled in my ancestors; Doreen 1 through 4th  and before that my ancient ancestors on earth going back another three or four generations, I am manic in space in a small space craft. Sometimes I think I will shoot myself into space outside this cursed ship and take my chances in my space suit. The blue one, the blue space suit.

My mind is racing again. It must be a change in the weather. I can feel changes in the weather back on earth. A day or two before the weather changes I cycle from one phase to another mentally. Yes, I cycle even though I am in a space ship drifting toward the Kuiper belts and even though I am supposed to be a scientist. Immune and logical. Now my mind is racing again.

What to do of a terrific nature in a small small space ship? This manic phase will only last a few days. Large thoughts will fill my head. I can do anything now. What should I do? No where to go really; but that doesn't stop me, at least it hasn't before. During these last twenty years drifting through space toward the Kuiper belts with my manic thoughts and me bouncing off the walls of this small space ship. Here I go again. I can feel the weather changing millions of miles away back on Earth.

Maybe I will talk to my computer. My artificial intelligence friend and try to tell Ghe what it's like to be like this. Sometimes it helps to have someone to talk to. Even a machine who can't understand what its like to be human; and especially can't understand what its like to be manic depressive in a small space ship.

Greeting Ghe artificial unit number 766. Have I told you lately my latest plans and schemes? I have
some knew ideas.
Doreen 5th
end part 5

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

for our Russian readers

for our Russian readers

fiction
edward w pritchard

For our Russian readers our tale here about how we camped out in a tent in ten below zero for two days won't impress them much. However, when I tell my two youngest grand children the story of my two days outside in ten below zero as a boy they will be impressed. I did the winter camping when I was twelve and a boy scout and it was tough going as we built a sled from small logs and sticks and then hauled our gear into the woods in January and spent two entire days and nights outside in a cold spell camping and cooking our meals around a small fire. I remember it was very cold but we survived.

On day two one of the older scouts hiked to his car and went into town and brought us about five candy bars each. An infraction of the rules of Klondike derby that was overlooked because of the dangerous windchill.

We have it in us to survive the elements. Our ancestors did it and I hope my grand children will try to test themselves surviving in the cold and wilderness one day as well. It will help them to appreciate a warm house in winter.

Thursday, November 7, 2019

praise service

praise service

fiction
edward w pritchard

Once I found myself solemnly sitting in a serene Catholic church attending a funeral of a child who had passed away. Although I am not a Catholic to me there is no more sacred place on earth created by the hand of Men than a Catholic church.

Yet upon reflection I am often at odds with many of the philosophies of the Catholic religion although thinking for myself as a historian I appreciate and admire the Catholic religion on balance. If I may be judged on the matter let me be guilty of the heresy of Americanism for I spent my life submerged in the American culture.

Recently I did some reading on two of the Catholic saints Polycarp and Irenaeus both instrumental in the development of the new testament of the bible and forging a logical philosophy of the Catholic church. At a time of historical struggle for Western thought both men diligently and competently worked to create a synthesized Catholic religion. The primary goal of both men was keeping  the authentic christian message and to identify heresy.

Would that someone could do the same with science and political thought here in America today    two areas where many odd theories abound.

Sunday, November 3, 2019

come to me

come to me

fiction
edward w pritchard

Come to me as the wind god for today we turn back the time one hour and for that one hour we can converse and I can remember you. Let you remember me as well and see if my original self has changed.

Off you go wind fluttering about invisible and unheard today though it be Sunday. Am I the same struggling to be appropriately me?  [1]

Stop wind. Let us talk of rebirth for we have escaped death.  Go wind; you to the edge of the universe, I to live one more year.

[1] original idea from Montaigne

Friday, November 1, 2019

then came act two

then came act two

fiction
edward w pritchard

Baseball season is over and fans from our nation's capital are celebrating. What next America?
Let's impeach the sitting President. Wouldn't that be a hoot.

Ask for comment Mr. President sang " then came act two, you seemed to change, you acted strange, why I'll never know. [quoting Elvis Presley].

Let the sitting President finish his term.