vol VII: Notes

1982

Notes

Sunday 12 December 1982 - Saturday 18 December 1982

Sunday 12 december 1982

Monday 13 December 1982

Tuesday 14 December 1982

Wednesday 15 December 1982

Thursday 16 December 1982

notebook: DREAMING DB1

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Friday 17 December 1982

Beautiful B is dead, dead. The ultimate shock that she is no more, dead, gone. Myself feels nowhere, but the river still flows, flows for me. A told me she was happy and humble, planning her next year at university. As I drove, I looked so forward to seeing her again after 12 days on the road, to Adelaide to see my friends, parents and daughter. I loved her as my dearest friend, a strong reason to stay in Elands. . . . Accident at Ghinni Ghinni, Wednesday, 12.30 am. She died next morning 6 am approx. Funeral/burial at the land, Monday next. Bill in Catholic Church Wingham 2 pm. B and B to be buried that afternoon. D and E looking after graves, I really love her a lot. Why stay here now? She tidied up downstairs, her private notebook on top of a pile of books (for me to find?) Where was I? Driving Canberras to Sydney. Left about 9.45. Arrived Sydney in afternoon .. . .

It is her birthday today, 17 December.

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Saturday 18 December 1982

She is dead. Nothing will change that. Grief. Emotion. Turmoil so wide and deep as to be unavoidable. I cry. . . . The loss is immense. How can there not be a god. Faced by the abyss, what is there? Nothing. To the Universe, what does individual life mean? A space, a gap in memory. A store of information, love, a source of creativity gone. Lost. Very lost. Yet she lives on in memory. Poor beautiful little person, killed. A source of will, of struggle, a person trying to come to an understanding of the world.

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Further reading

Books

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Joyce, James, and (Edited by Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior and with a new preface by Richard Ellmann, Ulysses: The Corrected Text, The Bodley Head 1986 Preface: ',,, For the purposes of interpretation, the most significant of the many small changes in [this] text has to do with the question Stephen puts to his mother at the climax of the brothel scene, itself the climax of the novel. Stephen is appalled by his mother's ghost, but like Ulysses he seeks information from her. His mother says, 'You sang that song to me. Love's bitter mystery.' Stephen responds 'eagerly.' as the stage direction sasy, 'Tell me the word, mother, if you know now. The word known to all men.' She fails to provide it. This passage has been much interpreted. ... Professor Gabler has been able to settle this matter by recovering a passage left out of the scene in the National Library. ... the omission of several lines - the longest omissionin the book. These lines read in the manuscript "Do you know what you are talking about? Love, yes. Word known to all men. ... '' page xii back

Lonergan, Bernard J F, Insight : A Study of Human Understanding (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan : Volume 3), University of Toronto Press 1992 '. . . Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. Its aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, an understanding of understanding'  Amazon   back

Nielsen, Michael A, and Isaac L Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press 2000 Review: A rigorous, comprehensive text on quantum information is timely. The study of quantum information and computation represents a particularly direct route to understanding quantum mechanics. Unlike the traditional route to quantum mechanics via Schroedinger's equation and the hydrogen atom, the study of quantum information requires no calculus, merely a knowledge of complex numbers and matrix multiplication. In addition, quantum information processing gives direct access to the traditionally advanced topics of measurement of quantum systems and decoherence.' Seth Lloyd, Department of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Nature 6876: vol 416 page 19, 7 March 2002.  Amazon   back

O'Murchu, Diarmuid, Quantum Theology : Spiritual Implications of the New Physics, Crossroad Publishing Company 1997 Jacket: 'For quantum theorists, the fact that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts underpins all reality. "This is not merely a scientific principle of immense significance for our times" writes DO'M, "it is also a theological norm, known to mystics for centuries and now maturing into the supreme wisdom of our age."'  Amazon   back

Thiering, Barbara, Jesus of the Apocalypse: The life of Jesus after the crucifixion, Doubleday 1996 Introduction: 'It is now possible to show that ... the bizarre images of the [Book of Revelation] were deliberately constructed ... to read like fantastic images but to convey through this form actual historical information. ... Above all the Book of Revelation contains evidence, supplied by the early Christians themselves, that Jesus survived the crucifixion and remained active for many years afterwards. ... " vi  Amazon   back

Papers

Gittins, Ross, "More to most of us than just the acquisition of stuff", Sydney Morning Herald, , , 13 December 2010, page . 'The chief speaker at the [economists'] conference was Gary Banks, chairman of the Productivity Commission and a high priest in the economists' Temple of Mammon. With Eslake as altar boy, he preached a fiery sermon about the need for more micro-reform to lift Australia's faltering productivity performance. Factually, he's right, of course. If you're obsessed by economic growth then, as Paul Krugman has famously put it, ''in the long run, productivity is nearly everything''.' Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/more-to-most-of-us-than-just-the-acquisition-of-stuff-20101212-18tzb.html#ixzz2dDHCyOsS. back

Links

De Interpretatione - Wikipedia, De Interpretatione - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'De Interpretatione or On Interpretation (Greek: Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας, Peri Hermeneias) is the second text from Aristotle's Organon and is among the earliest surviving philosophical works in the Western tradition to deal with the relationship between language and logic in a comprehensive, explicit, and formal way. The work is usually known by its Latin title.' back

drupal.org, Drupal - Open Source CMS, 'Come for the software, stay for the community Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.' back

On Interpretation by Aristotle, Internet Classics Archive, 'Part 1 First we must define the terms 'noun' and 'verb', then the terms 'denial' and 'affirmation', then 'proposition' and 'sentence.' Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience and written words are the symbols of spoken words. Just as all men have not the same writing, so all men have not the same speech sounds, but the mental experiences, which these directly symbolize, are the same for all, as also are those things of which our experiences are the images. This matter has, however, been discussed in my treatise about the soul, for it belongs to an investigation distinct from that which lies before us.' back

Ross Gittins, Faithful few attend the economic church, 'If the nation's economists are right in assuming almost all of us share their belief that the pursuit of an eternally rising material standard of living must be a key goal of government, they're left with a puzzle: why then is there so little support for further micro-economic reform?' back