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themes and variations
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Ron Pellegrino
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Jan 05, 2005 23:11 PST
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Hi Raewn:
On Jan 5, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Raewyn Turner wrote:
| | Hi Sergio, Ron, all,
Just back from staying on an island where I chanced to experience on
a very dark night a luminous world in an immense sea of coloured
phosphorescence, brilliantly coloured, electric blue, purple, glowing
green plowing the surface in waves across the dark seascape, the
horizon punctuated by hundreds of white flashes of light, the line of
foam of the breaking waves brilliant pale blue--the children were in
awe that they had glowing stardust at their feet and could hold
particles of it in their hands, flashing on impact with the
ground.--or as some of them said as they pounded across the beach
''like Michael Jackson's latest film clip''...
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Thanks for the reminder. I had an experience somewhat similar to what
you describe three decades ago on my first trip to the southern shores
of Puerto Rico. It was such a powerful experience that it comes to
mind as if I experienced it yesterday.
| | ..... this is so much like
the cracks in mundane reality through which i get the occasional
glimpse --in this kind of phenomenal event and in my self.
Sergio, I enjoyed Constance Classen's "Colour of Angels" and will
look out for her "Worlds of Sense"---I started being interested in
feral children through an exploration of illusions and the idea of
creating illusory data, anthropomorphism -- ambiguity in computer
graphics and in smell--and mysticism, other ways of knowing the
world....and then Millane, my 10 year old son told me his story about
how he remembered before he was born and how he was outside of
himself, like a computer game,' like Diablo --its a computer game that
you can see yourself in'. So many corresponding factors.
| | Discovering that connection between your story around feral children
and the one in Greek mythology leads me to thinking about themes and
variations and how the themes seem to be as old as our history and
the variations new with each successive generation. Sad that we're
still struggling with the same problems (feral children) after all
these years and happy that we're still struggling with the same
problems (feral children) after all these years. We may be a bit
slow but at least we don't give up easily.
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I wonder Ron, if the themes and variations might be a prescribed human
path, inbuilt?
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Without a doubt. The process seems to function as a mnemonic device to
keep us rediscovering/reinventing our roots (the fundamentals) so we
stay in touch with our ground even though it seems to be lost in
prehistory. The older I get the more pleasure I take in connecting
with those ancient enterprises which in my youth I thought were
leading-edge games.
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By the way my favourite book was Jonathon Ree's 'I See a Voice' and
reading Rumi's mystic poetry again, when it was mentioned on the list,
reminding me of beauty.
Looking forward to following up EDGE too!
cheerio
Raewyn
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Regards,
Ron Pellegrino
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