It’s of tangential relevance. This is how we explore the problem space.

Well that was some clumsily strung-together invective. Maybe switch to decaf. It would improve your mood and your writing.

My longtime gf (we live together) has been petsitting for these wealthy clients (old friends) for 4 years.

Same dog, whole life of dog. (Medium sized German shepherd, white, highstrung)

Gf tells me that clients are getting rid of dog. That either we adopt the dog or clients will have it killed.

They have several conversations about this.

I ask to join the conversation, seeing as how it’s my house and life that will be greatly affected here.

Gf refuses.

Bring it up with clients. Clients blow me off.

3 weeks later we have a new dog.

I feel like a doormat. And the clients totally bullied my gf into this. But I’m the bad guy if I bring it up in conversation to gf or clients.

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Observe and Report 2009

Excalibur

Flash Gordon

Thanks. Presently downloading 2 of those.

Primer

Fiend without a face

Blue velvet

A Dark Song

But don’t hold me to it

The Magician’s nephew was probably my first taste of the multiple-worlds idea. It was mind-expanding. A big step towards the larger reality that I enjoy today, if only in theory.

Here’s the edition of Patanjali that I like :

Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali: Containing His Yoga Aphorisms with Vyasa’s Commentary in Sanskrit and a Translation with Annotations Including Many Suggestions for the Practice of Yoga https://a.co/d/fEBSAbA

As you can see, it’s a nice fat yellow book.

Also, Permutation City (by Greg Egan) is nothing to shake a stick at. (Well it does stretch a bit in the second half, but still). The central concepts. Dust theory. Dreams in dreams. It’s heavy.

The Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali

The Magician’s Nephew

Permutation City

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We want you to do a bunch of plumbing stuff to our bathroom sink and stuff.

(Get there)

Oh yeah, we left our towels and shampoo bottles and beer cans and washcloths and kitty litter and crap and underwear and socks all over the fucking place. Sorry about that. Just push that aside.

Chromewash

A collection of science fiction stories and essays by excruciatingly verbose writers.

I dunno man, have you asked your mom?

Actually some of you said no, some said yes, some said maybe and some said it bears further discussion. But your song is a bit gimpy I think.

You watch a movie with a scary horse and feel a bit scared. Later you visit a farm and see a horse and feel a bit scared. You react that way because of the movie. You see how it works.

And you could say that an evil person is somebody with evil reactions. Reactions of behavior and thinking.

My god some of you people would rather twist yourself into a pretzel than address the question.

Fine, so pretend that it’s due to a clumsiness of phrasing on my part. Mea culpa maxima.

Now pretty please, address my question.

Maybe they feel a little empowered. Maybe their thoughts are slightly more inclined to judgment. There’s infinitely more to a person than their obvious behavior.

The thing to do would be to examine your own behavior. Has a habit gained in one context ever noticeably bled over into another?