Wednesday, March 10, 2010

vital energy

schlubbing to 6 train early AM
note Mexican and Puerto Rican neighbors emerging from subway w/ sad faces
groups, milling about disoriented - as it dawns - the 6 train is not running..
in a zone, cut in front of jumbled line to pressing on bus
which is jam packt as I stand w/ New Yorker mag to face blocks and swaying blocks
reading article about Brit social commentator of the the 1800's Herbert Spencer
here an excerpt:
"Cerebral activity makes enormous demands on vital energy, and "if expenditure is excessiveit cannot be met without deduction from that reserve power which should go to race-maintenance." Reading interfered with breeding."
to showing up at computer store where basement is a puddle - techs with mops in hands - shop vacs wailing sucking in the water
I wade through to a dim storage area where a fat waterbug skitters up a piece of plywood to considering me at eye level - standing in the water I flash eyes about for something to smash it with - hone in on a cheap umbrella hanging on a rack - shaggy black one - the kind with the plastic hook handle - I swoosh a swing to Blam! - and all that remains of it is it's head there stuck to that sheet of plywood - anteni moving as it goes on considering me but fading away

we all managed to bail the place out and then it's free lunch: massive chicken burrito delivered - too much cheese even so

second half of work..

onto the subway (running again) to Brooklyn
where kick back and crack thick French philosophy book
here excerpt:
"It is hard to tell who is who anymore, or what anything means. Instead of a rigid line composed of well-determined segments, telegraphy now forms a supple flow marked by quanta that are like so many little segmentations-in-progress grasped at the moment of their birth, as on a moonbeam, or on an intensive scale." (1000 Plateaus)

and to address the Spencer article excerpt I've found cerebral activity to invigorate

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