The Apeiron As Travel Fuel

The Apeiron is, in Ancient Greek cosmology, an original substance from whence all other substances emanate from. The Apeiron is an infinite and boundless and indeterminate substance. In Anaximander, the apeiron or "the boundless" is not subject to decay and constantly brings about fresh materials that brings about what we perceive through our senses. It is also what generates the opposites in nature, i.e. hot-cold, wet-dry, etc., etc.

In a Douglas Adams-esque way what if I used in a story the apeiron as a fuel for interspace travel or time traveling? That might be funny. The world of the story could incorporate a lot of Pre-Socratic Greek understandings of reality to humorous conclusions.

Hitchhiker's done.

So I finally finished The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I was sad to put it down. The book was great; I really enjoyed it. Although, I have to say the endings to each story always seemed to come a bit abruptly. It was sad to see Marvin die even if he did in a moment of rare satisfaction.

Some Clarification on From Sosua

On October 3, 2009, I wrote a little blurb in my moleskin called "From Sosua" that as I was editing it and typing it in here I found it a bit strange, maybe even creepy.

"I sit and admire the beauty of youth"

Not too bad, it sounds a bit stalkerish but nothing serious. I'm at the beach, doing some people watching. Sure, not too bad.

"There are four girls, not yet women, dancing among the waves...

...Excuse me a moment - cuba libre" 

Ok. We just slipped into something a bit weirder.

"Four girls blossoming into women dance in the waves. So I sit here and admire the beauty of youth".

All right. Full blown creeper alert.

In my defense, I was really working hard on developing a writing style and working on different voices in my head and at the moment I had just finished a couple of cuba libres while reading Ovid's Amores. I was trying to juxtapose the young teen girls against the old topless women from France behind me in a semi-humorous, quasi-poetic tone and after reflection some six years later I discovered to my horror that I sound a little bit sick in describing the situation. That being said the "beauty" I was admiring was the simplicity in which they were playing and not in some kind of perverted way. Maybe it didn't come off like that in 2009 or when you first read it, but you don't know me and could very well assumed that I had nefarious intentions in my people watching - which I didn't thank you very much. It's syntactically accusatory in reading it now, but it was an attempt on some of Ovid's sensibilities using what was probably not the best subject matter considering Ovid's penchant for scintillating work with his quill - if you know what I mean.



Two Centuries of Posts

And now we come to the second century of posts. That's 200 posts of drivel, ramblings, scrawlings and a couple of coherent sentences. What a journey we are on!

So let's look at the Thought Categories first:

• Christianity - Down from 57% of posts to 36% of posts
• Current Events - Down from 1% of posts to .5% of posts
• History - Up from 1% of posts to 8.5% of posts
• Literature - Up from 3% of posts to 11.5% of posts
• Philosophy - Down from 41% of posts to 38.5% of posts
• Travel Journal - Up from 0% posts to 2% of posts
• Writing - Up from 6% of posts to 17.5% of posts

-Philosophy over took Christianity in this century, we will see if that stays on point.
-Travel Journal came into existence but is only at 2% so I need to travel more I guess.
-Writing came up which is what I said I needed to do in the last post.

The last post about the centuries included all the other subcategories, but for the purpose of brevity I think that these overarching categories are all I need in this post. See you again in an hundred posts for our third century analysis.

Terribly written songs and shabbily remembered tunes

Ugh, how embarrassing. Some of these "poems" are horrendous. But, each of them was originally written as a song that I had every intentions of layering over the lyrics with some sick stuff from fruity loops. Sadly or gladly, I'm not sure which, I never did record these, but a few of the melody's popped back into my head when I was retyping them.

Sadly, I don't really remember the tune or style for We are not God

The song called 2 of the 7 deadly sins, if I remember correctly was originally all seven, but time and moves has seen the loss of the other five deadly sins songs...

Belgian Soul is a bad poem/song and while I don't remember the tune, it could actually make for a good short story

Give me one little chance seems to have been a complete rip off of Lynyrd Skynyrd's gimme three steps.

Much stronger than Tom was a song that was meant to be sung very deep and scratchy. I might've been able to do it today but definitely wouldn't have been able to do it with my vienna choir boy voice in 2003.

Everyday seems to be a punk song, very fast and not very long.

Ignore me was supposed to have an industrial feel and sounds a lot like "Ich Will" from Rammstein in my head.

Up & Down should've sounded like a dark version of a child's song with distortion dissonance in the background in the verses which might've been supposed to have been spoken.

The name "Holy Roman Empire" was going to be the name of my one-man band but never took off. What a shame...