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Notes DB 91: Divine_Gravitation_2024

Sunday 23 June 2024 - Saturday 29 June 2024

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Sunday 23 June 2024

Am I getting anywhere at learning how the world works? My story of naked gravitation, Hilbert space, quantum mechanics and bifurcation of gravitation into potential and kinetic energy seems to parallel both quantum field theory, democracy, capitalism, and the progress of evolution and science, say five points of contact that need explanation and dismiss the omnipotent and omniscient creator and Standard theory. Jeffrey Nicholls (2024b): Cognitive Cosmogenesis

Since childhood I have been looking for the orgasmic pleasure promised in the Catholic vision of God. Now that I reached a post-reproductive age I get it, and more, stronger and more lasting, from thinking and writing. I have just received a rejection of my book from Harvard University Press and suhggested they look again by reminding them of the synopsis to chapter 27 and my (now, see above) six insect legs: initial singularity, gravitation, quantum mechanics, the evolution of both nature and science, democrcy and capitslism,

[Chapter 27: The political consequence of physical theology The idea of top down Catholicism is that the omnipotent and omniscient creator not only totally controls every moment of every event in the world but also passes instructions to humanity through the Church on Earth to control their behaviour. An imperial picture. Here we work from the bottom up. A key to the connection of theology and physics is symmetry with respect to complexity. Although the difference in scale between fundamental particles and an ideal democratic polity is immense, they are both formally quite similar. Democratic politics works well in Hilbert space. Voting itself is linear, a form of superposition distributed by parties. Individuals and political parties are characterized by their directions in political space which may be modelled as vectors in a Hilbert space. We may imagine a space with the same number of dimensions as the population. Every person is represented by a basis vector and their sums in various combinations present us with a comprehensive picture of the political directions in an electorate. Such ideal democratic political systems have natural quantum mechanical support which gives us insight into the nature of the world.]

Darwin: The Origin of Species; Me: The Origin of the Universe

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Read the book again and send a copy to Calypso.

I suppose I want world domination because I think that I am the only one that knows the answers, or more to the point, I am the only one I know of because even though I have doubts about myself, I feel that I am the only one with an Aristotelian picture running from the initial singularity and naked gravitation to the whole Universe as it is embodied in human planetary politics and the search for answers to war and survival / salvation. So the definition of salvation is stable human life on a healthy living planet until the Sun becomes intolerable, which gives us about five billion years to find an alternative. This seems to provide an adequate prolegomenon to the Prima secundae and then we can begin to outline the social and political principles to achieve this based on the idea that our bodies are an example of an evolutionary 'state of the art' entity whose various shortcomings are now in many cases being dealt with by medical science and whose mental unity is to be established by a scientific theology, that is a scientific theory of everything that puts us in line with our environment rather than thinking of ourselves

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as pilgrims in a doomed world due for an apocalyptic makeover by some outside divine force: the creater who made the divine world of angels and people who then proceed to upset the creator so much that they destroyed all their perfect work out of pique. [They] only conceded to fix it after they made their own son human and arranged for him to be tortured to death for their pleasure [, satisfaction] and reconciliation with their creatures, about half of whom are condemned to hell anyway.

This little essay can be a record of the picture I asm trying to replace with the picture that I see whose guiding principles are gravitation and quantum mechanics. Quantum theory is built on the idea that gravitation is divine, the original omnipotent empty mind (I should not call it a primordial thug). It is simply the primordial Buddhist ideal, maybe. Should find and read Suzuki and Roger Jackson. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (2013): Studies in Zen, Roger Jackson (1999): Buddhist Theology: Critical reflections by contemporary Buddhist Scholars

So a plan is emerging. Unfortunately I have to go on criticizing the imperial transformation of Christianity while protecting the parable of the Good Samaritan; love god (Earth) and each other as the cells in my body love my body and love each other.

I asm pleased to feel that I have got some answers after my long theological saga and it is good in

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a way that I started with Catholicism which I come to see more or less gets everything wrong which simplifies things in a way since the closest thing to the truth it is the exact opposite, they are really only one bit apart.

Aquinas's actus purus becomes naked gravitation and gods ideas become in the first instance quantum mechanics, a balloon that maintain the same shape as we blow it up from a qubit to a space with countably infinite dimensions which can be arranged in a transfinite hierarchy of ordered sets, illustrating the power of my current favourite principle: symmetry with respect to complexity.

Monday 24 June 2024

I suppose that the bottom line is that I am happy in my work and receiving the reward promised by old mate Thomas Aquinas, visions of god that I wish to capture in writing and propagate to make other people happy despite the ancient momentum of traditional belief. Momentum, in the cognitive Universe, is a psychological trait, a state of mind [that keeps us moving at constant speed in a straight line unless we are acted upon by a force (Newton's first law)].

Taking a nostalgic look through the Dominican Province of Australia site and come across a page entitled The Source of Discernment which discusses how people finish up in the Order. This led to the thought that if God had a effective role in my vocation [to the religious life] Their plan was to give me an inside look at

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religious life so that I would become a heretic and get kicked out in order to devote my life to a real scientific theology which would tell the truth about God to replace all the Catholic rubbish that they have had to put up with for nearly 2000 years. Maybe I will find out one day that God is on my side and I will have a bit of success with my work, but I am not banking on it. I just do what I have to do and maybe it will go viral long after I am dead. Dominican Order, Australia: The Journey of Discernment

The big weakness in all my bright ideas is the lack of numbers that make the proponents of quantum field theory so proud, and I do not know where they really come from except by measurements which ultimately go back to the fundamental constants for which we have no explanation [although we do know that the velocity of light is the coupling constant between space and time and the gravitational constant couples energy to the curvature of space]. I am saying that quantum mechanics finds stationary points and gravitation gives them energy which appears as mass in those particles that can come to rest in Minkowski space. Those that travel at the speed of light and are massless and have energy proportional to inverse time, ie E = hf. How do we compute the mass of an electron? By the [energy of the] photons that constitute it.

Can we say that entropy is a count [of points] per unit of space and energy is a count of [complete waves] per unit of time. Entropy is the inverse of the amount of energy per particle, ie S = Q/T.

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What am I looking for? What Thomas had. A firm life of [accepted] belief and an exciting job, and the beautiful supportive environment of the monastery. I haven't got a monastery [any more] I have a world and a Universe, far more beautiful and interesting if I can see it and see everybody else seeing it, ie make the transition from theology / psychology to a religi0n / feeling.

Tuesday 25 June 2024

Looking to go back to the original masterplan for natural theology.net in the section titled Development in 15 sections last revised on 7 August 2014, so its tenth anniversary is coming up and it might be time to fill out all the unwritten slotd now that cognitive cosmogenesis has consolidated my view of the relationship between physics and theology. I am pleased with the foresight shown in this structure as it confirms the steadiness of

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I have been following and I should have a look at reader statistics for this section of the site. Only got as far as Dev04_physic but it is pretty much on the track that I have followed since and the natural theology site is still my home.

So next job : read Nielsen and Chuang and finish development section of naturaltheology.net.

No response from Publisher's Marketplace listing. Next more Stanford UP. Erica Wetter

Macmillan.

Visibility: one has to send a signal to be seen. I have to cut down my ouvre to advertising slogans.

Wednesday 26 June 2024

I have spent all my time since 1964 when I discovered Lonergan and became turned on to the parallel ideas that the Universe is both divine and psychological, following my own groove and cognitive cosmogenesis is the conclusion that I have reached but it is a bit complex and obscure and now I have to strip it down and present it as a naked truth to potential publishers. In a way this is as big a job as writing the book itself since it is so far from the mainstream of theology in all denominations except perhaps Buddhism. I have to engage with the weight of my work which I have taken very lightly, staying within my capacity as I would when running a marathon, but now I am coming toward the end and I can see I am far head of the competition (if there is any) and so must get my story out vis mainstream publication which demands a lot of refinement.

It is quite clear that theocracies, particularly the Christian Churches, are by far the biggest purveyors of false information on the planet beginning with the idea that we are eternl, the world is wrescked by sin and there is to be an apocalyptic

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reconstruction that will put the theocrats in heaven and their opposition in hell.

Submission sent to Stanford UP.

Submission to Bloomsbury through Academic Proposal Form.

Because it has enormous power the scientific community has largely avoided confronting the mythology of the religious community and we can see the results in the article by Renée DiResta in the NYTimes. Article re this to NYT? Renée DiResta: What Happened to Stanford Spells Trouble for the Election

Thursday 27 June 2024

[Submission] to Bloomsbury posted.

What next? My feeling is that the core of my next dissertation should be principle 7 (magic number) quoted in the synopsis of Chapter 27: 'Although the difference in scale between fundamental particles and the ideal democratic polity is immense, they are both formally quite similar. Democratic politics works well in Hilbert space. Voting itself is linear . . . [or at least should be].

Read through Cognitive Cosmogenesis and send a copy to Calypso.

Evicted by George.

The enormous variety of sounds in our lives gives an insight into the versatility of quantum mechanics [but we must remember that every 'point' in space could be emitting a different sound and they could all be superposed in abstract Hilbert space].

Friday 28 June 2024

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JohnsHopkins press, Tiffani Gasparrini Life and Physical science: email sent.

Princeton UP: email sent.

MIT emailed

Yale emailed

Saturday 29 June 2024

Pornography: How did the Universe come to this? a consequence of the interaction of false theology and the imperatives of evolution. A cost / benefit analysis might bring it down to the clitoris, the benefit that inclines females to pay the cost of reproduction, thereby facilitating the survival of the species that have this mechanism. Males have a similar mechanism but it does not seem to be so good at promoting the long term fidelity necessary to create viable offspring. Pornography is in effect a short cut largely motivated by males seeking the benefits without the costs, a consequence of the advantage of predation.

The dimensions of Hilbert space are complex and kinematic

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rays which can be adjusted in any superposition to arrive at any value between 0 and 1 by changing the "time" parameter.

The theocrats want fertility control to populate their armies, soldier of God.

My book is a bit repetitive snd episodic [Bidenesque?] but it is also outrageous from the point of view of the theological establishment, as Jesus was, and it is time I think for a total rewrite which brings this home - some sort of title like god is gravity, gravity is god, built around evolution and P vs NP, with built in anti-pornographic treatment of lust and sexuality, in fact an essay on potential and lust for life, exercised by a mindless omnipotent. I am slowly reorienting myself from knowledge to action on the basis of my new knowledge of the action of the Universe and the supremacy of gravitation becoming limited by quantum

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mechanics. Gravitation believes in ultraviolet catastrophe (ie black holes) and quantum mechanics prevents it (Hawking and Ellis's time reversed black hole). P versus NP problem - Wikipedia

Maybe go for novel / poetry vs techno. I do not have to demonstrate my technical competence so much, just let people assume it is as long as it is a good yarn, but I am not sure if that siis what I want to do.

Submitted to Dublin UP.

In a nutshell cognitive cosmogenesis is an evidence based attack on murderous theocrats.

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Further reading

Books

Humphreys (1991), Christmas, Buddhism, 1991 ' Considered one of the original classic introductory level works on Buddhism, this book has been continually reprinted somewhere in the world for half a century. Humphreys writes with passion about the doctrines and beliefs that have become a living reality in his life, and it is this edge that draws readers in spite of the fact that, content-wise, it has been clearly surpassed by more recent introductions, such as Harvey's. The other reviews here tell you its strengths, so let me make a few warnings. First, a reader new to Buddhist thought needs to be aware that Humphrey's opinions about the subject are colored, sometimes deeply, by his exposure to a syncretistic religion called Theosophy, which attempted to bridge Eastern and Western religions. As such, he is not always clearly Buddhist, but reflects Theosophical beliefs, particularly in his discussions on Self and Oneness. Second, due to this bridging need, a number of comments and comparisons are drawn with Christianity that are either out of context or which disappear when the actual details are examined. Third, the book represents a rationalistic approach to Buddhism, typical of the times, and proceeds on such assumptions as that Buddhism contains no assumptions, which cannot be taken seriously at this point. Due to these issues, and its dated nature compared to recent introductions, I would recommend reading some of the later before trying this one. [Jmes S Taylor, Amazin] 
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Jackson (1999), Roger, and Roger Makransky (editor), Buddhist Theology: Critical reflections by contemporary Buddhist Scholars, Curzon Press 1999 Jacket: 'This volume is the expression of a new development in the academic study of Buddhism: scholars of Buddhism, themselves Buddhist, who seek to apply the critical tools of the academy to reassess the truth and transformative value of their tradition in its relevance to the modern world.' 
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Suzuki (2013), Daisetz Teitaro, Studies in Zen, Rider and Co, for the Buddhist Society 1953 Studies in Zen is the eigth volume of the collected works of DT Suzuki. Jacket: 'These studies, packed with the jewels of Zen wisdom, and written with unrivalled knowledge, will appeal to all who seek a deeper understanding of Eastern ways of thought and spiritual achievement. For Zen is unique in the whole range of human understanding, and Dr. Suzuki is accepted as its greatest exponent. 
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Links

Cameron Shackell, 40 years after his death Michel Foucault’s philosophy still speaks to a world saturated with social media, The philosopher Todd May argues Foucault is always asking one question: “Who are we?” Indeed, in one of his last lectures, Foucault summed up his work this way: My objective for more than 25 years has been to sketch out a history of the different ways in our culture that humans develop knowledge about themselves. Knowledge, for Foucault, is not just what we know. It is who we are. It defines our options, not just intellectually, but in all respects, including morally and spiritually. We can’t know something and then step back to be something completely different. Foucault’s “self” is inscribed with knowledge, not simply coloured in. There is little doubt this idea resonates powerfully today. Is there anything more enviable than a powerful self, which is also to say a knowledgeable self? Curation of the online self has become a mass preoccupation, projecting it an obsession. We now live in an attention economy built of competing selves. Likes, comments and reactions mean status, and in many cases its ready equivalent, money. . . . Foucault’s philosophical politeness, though often tedious and infuriating, has paid off. Even if he was wrong – or not even coherent enough to be wrong, as Chomsky claimed – his influence has nonetheless made him useful and an asset to the 21st century. His genius, it seems, was to invent a viral philosophy that is socially self-proving. He has left us wondering if there is any other kind.' back

Carl Zimmer (2024_06_21), How Flounder Wound Up With an Epic Side-Eye, ' Darwin’s theory survived Mivart’s assaults, but the conundrum of the flatfish remained. For decades, scientists puzzled over what sort of ancestor they evolved from. Flounder, halibut, sole and all the other flatfishes had very similar bodies, indicating that they were closely related to one another. But they were all so strange that it was impossible to identify their closest living cousins. The mystery began to unravel in the early 2000s, when biologists found that the closest genetic relatives of flatfish looked nothing like them. Their cousins included big, fast swimmers that spent their lives in the open ocean, including tunas, barracudas and marlins. “That is kind of shocking,” said Ricardo Betancur-R., a marine biologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who discovered the connection in 2013.' back

Dominican Order, Australia, The Journey of Discernment , ' Discernment is a gift from God. It is the ability to perceive the path of holiness and the course of virtue that Divine Providence has in store for every person. It depends not only on one’s personal experiences but also, and most importantly, on the revelation God has given to the Church community and the individual discerner. In the case of a religious vocation, discernment is not a private matter but a gift which both the individual and the Order receive together from the Holy Spirit. This gift sheds light on the discerner’s search for that vocation which will lead to their true flourishing and authentic happiness as a child of God. Once the person comes to know the way God has set for them since the foundation of the world, the grace of divine charity floods the heart and impels the young person to make the leap of faith: They left their nets and followed Him (Mk 1:18).
In the following of Christ, the disciple can discern two callings or vocations. First, there is the vocation to holiness, which belongs equally to all. Before his Ascension, Christ commanded his disciples to teach all nations what he first taught them and to baptise in the name of the Holy Trinity. By faith and baptism, a person is brought from the darkness of sin and error to the light of Truth in Christ. This transformation is what the universal call to holiness is all about: a conversion which entails the illumination of a human soul by heavenly wisdom; the Trinity’s joyful drawing of a soul towards eternal life.
There is also the particular vocation of each person, and this vocation is the object of discernment. This vocation arises from the first vocation and normally entails some sort of life-long commitment. As this commitment is an act of dedication or consecration to God, it may be expressed through a sacrament - such as priestly ordination or the exchange of marriage vows - or through some other ritual, such as religious profession.' back

Fatima Payman, Australia must recognise Palestine to promote peace, ' On May 29, a motion was presented to the lower house of the Australian parliament by the Greens to vote on whether Australia should follow Spain, Norway, Ireland, Slovenia, and the overwhelming majority of the world’s nations in recognising Palestinian statehood, but it failed to pass as 80 MPs voted against it. My party, the Australian Labor Party, has consistently argued that such motions are political machinations on the part of the Greens in order to score “cheap points” and sway the public. Even if that were the case, this “politicking” does not detract from the underlying fact that a genocide is ongoing, and the Australian public knows it. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been slaughtered, among them 15,000 children. Australians have seen for themselves the image of seven-year-old Sidra Hassouna hanging from a wall with her legs blown off and the footage of a man holding the corpse of 18-months-old Ahmad beheaded by an Israeli bombing. They have heard the sound of six-year-old Hind Rajab’s last words, desperately pleading for help as Israeli tanks closed in on her.' back

Jeffrey Nicholls (2024b), Cognitive Cosmogenesis, ' The story in this book has been made possible by a remarkable coincidence. The initial singularity predicted from Einstein’s general theory of relativity by Penrose, Hawing and Ellis turns out to be formally identical to the God of the Roman Catholic Church described by Thomas Aquinas, using the Metaphysics Aristotle wrote more than 1500 years before him. ' back

Lee Fang & Jack Poulson, Exclusive: Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war, ' As the Gaza war rages, Israeli funds target US college campuses and push to redefine antisemitism in US law Last November, just weeks into the war in Gaza, Amichai Chikli, a brash, 42-year-old Likud minister in the Israeli government, was called into the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, to brief lawmakers on what could be done about rising anti-war protests from young people across the United States, especially at elite universities. “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again now, that I think we should, especially in the United States, be on the offensive,” argued Chikli. Chikli has since led a targeted push to counter critics of Israel. The Guardian has uncovered evidence showing how Israel has relaunched a controversial entity as part of a broader public relations campaign to target US college campuses and redefine antisemitism in US law. . . . None of the groups identified in this story’s reporting have registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (Fara). This law requires groups receiving funds or direction from foreign countries to provide public disclosures to the US Department of Justice. “There’s a built-in assumption that there’s nothing at all weird about viewing the US as sort of an open field for Israel to operate in, that there are no limitations,” said Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. back

Nicolle Okore & Trevor Christensen, They took part in Apache ceremonies. Their schools expelled them for satanic activities, ' The way the school saw it, it was devil worship. In October 2019, three teenage girls were punished for participating in a spiritual ceremony. Their Arizona school expelled two of them, and let the third off with a warning, citing their attendance as a violation of school policy and grounds for expulsion. Caitlyn, now 18, says she and her friends were disciplined for participating in a Sunrise Dance, a traditional Native ceremony at the core of White Mountain Apache culture. The Monday after the dance, Caitlyn’s parents told her to stay home that day. They had received a call from East Fork Lutheran school telling them not to send their daughter in. She didn’t know why. Then around noon, her mom got another phone call. The principal wanted to meet with Caitlyn, her parents and the local preacher. The principal and preacher also invited the two other girls and their families to their own private meetings with school leadership. At the start of each meeting, the families were chastised for participating in the dance. Caitlyn remembers her mother telling the principal and preacher how hypocritical they were to say the Apache people were not praying to God. “In the Bible, God himself says to come to me in all sorts,” she argued. “The dance is also a prayer; it’s another way.” The leadership of the school, on the Fort Apache Reservation, disagreed with that interpretation and used pictures of the event posted on Facebook as evidence for their expulsions.' back

P versus NP problem - Wikipedia, P versus NP problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in computer science. It asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified (technically, verified in polynomial time) can also be solved quickly (again, in polynomial time). The underlying issues were first discussed in the 1950s, in letters from John Forbes Nash Jr. to the National Security Agency, and from Kurt Gödel to John von Neumann. The precise statement of the P versus NP problem was introduced in 1971 by Stephen Cook in his seminal paper " The complexity of theorem proving procedures" and is considered by many to be the most important open problem in the field.' back

Renée DiResta, What Happened to Stanford Spells Trouble for the Election, ' The real impact of the rumors about us came offline. After the House flipped to Republican control in 2022, the investigations began. The “22 million tweets” claim was entered into the congressional record by witnesses during a March 2023 hearing of a House Judiciary subcommittee. Two Republican members of the subcommittee, Jim Jordan and Dan Bishop, sent letters demanding our correspondence with the executive branch and with technology companies as part of an investigation into our role in a Biden “censorship regime.” Subpoenas soon followed, and the investigations eventually expanded to requesting that our staff submit to closed-door video-recorded testimonies. That included students who worked on the project. . . . Costs, both financial and psychological, have mounted. Stanford is refocusing the work of the Observatory and has ended the Election Integrity Partnership’s rapid-response election observation work. Employees, including me, did not have their contracts renewed. Republican members of the House Judiciary subcommittee reacted to the Stanford news by saying their “robust oversight” over the center had resulted in a “big win” for free speech. This is an alarming statement for government officials to make about a private research institution with First Amendment rights. The work of studying election delegitimization and supporting election officials is more important than ever. It is crucial that we not only stand resolute but speak out forcefully against intimidation tactics intended to silence us and discredit academic research. We cannot allow fear to undermine our commitment to safeguarding the democratic process. back

Rezwan Siddiquee et. al., A programmable seekRNA guides target selection by IS1111 and IS110 type insertion sequences, ' Abstract IS1111 and IS110 insertion sequence (IS) family members encode an unusual DEDD transposase type and exhibit specific target site selection. The IS1111 group include identifiable subterminal inverted repeats (sTIR) not found in the IS110 type1. IS in both families include a noncoding region (NCR) of significant length and, as each individual IS or group of closely related IS selects a different site, we had previously proposed that an NCR-derived RNA was involved in target selection2. Here, we find that the NCR is usually downstream of the transposase gene in IS1111 family IS and upstream in the IS110 type. Four IS1111 and one IS110 family members that target different sequences are used to demonstrate that the NCR determines a short seeker RNA (seekRNA) that co-purified with the transposase. The seekRNA is essential for transposition of the IS or a cargo flanked by IS ends from and to the preferred target. Short sequences matching both top and bottom strands of the target are present in the seekRNA but their order in IS1111 and IS110 family IS is reversed. Reprogramming the seekRNA and donor flank to target a different site is demonstrated, indicating future biotechnological potential for these systems.' back

Sophia Nguyen (2024_06-25), ‘Ulysses’ is an ‘impossible’ novel. Now — somehow — it’s also a play., ' When the acclaimed theater ensemble Elevator Repair Service first considered adapting “Ulysses” for the stage, company founder and director John Collins didn’t know much about the book — only that “it was long and it was insane.” That’s the one thing everyone knows about “Ulysses”: It’s hard to read. It’s not the kind of landmark of literature that people visit often or casually; it’s the kind that they resolve, bravely, to summit. James Joyce’s modernist epic is often described as “monumental,” not only for its sheer length, but also because of the density and capaciousness of its prose. The Irish public radio broadcast of the novel, first aired in 1982, ran just shy of 30 hours. So how would someone go about hauling this colossal work onto a theater stage?' back

Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell, Taylor Swift Has Rocked My Psychiatric Practice, ' Who is the Swiftie? In my practice, these patients share certain characteristics. Raised on a healthy diet of kindness and fairness, she is sensitive, ambitious and a bit of a perfectionist. Like Ms. Swift, she dresses to be pretty and cool (and sometimes for revenge), but inside, she is in all kinds of pain. Her self-doubt perpetuates a vicious cycle in a world where she is timid and young and others may assume she knows nothing. She’s hard-working and frustrated and wonders if she’d get there quicker if she were a man. Desperate to experience love, she has had her moments of begging for Romeo to just say yes and tolerating being treated badly in some situationship. (You said you needed space — what??) And yet the Swiftie strives to be the modern-day Cinderella who doesn’t remember if she has a man. She finds in Ms. Swift an actual hero who meets her where she is but also shows her the badass place she could get to — so intoxicating precisely because it is within reach.' back

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