http://kokyued.blogsome.com at a sub-nuclear level, matter is popping in and out of existence Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:27:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wondered if we were exotic to each other; hair, eyes, skin, lips, location, actual potential. Then the academy fell and I thought: the exotic is perfect intimacy discovered by surprise. http://kokyued.blogsome.com/2009/09/17/is-can-be-not/  Via Steve Shaviro:  The word ‘decision’ does not here imply conscious judgment, though in some ‘decisions’ consciousness will be a factor. The word is used in its root sense of a ‘cutting off.’ The ontological principle declares that every decision is referable to one or more actual entities, because in ... http://kokyued.blogsome.com/2009/09/03/decision/ I was expecting itI was afraid of itmy warrior mantrying not to kill the thing I want to protect http://kokyued.blogsome.com/2009/08/26/stumble/ And then I saw him, another Native man, leaning against a wall near the gift shop. Well, maybe he was Asian—lots of those in Seattle. He was a small man, pale brown, with muscular arms and a soft belly. Maybe he was Mexican, which is really a kind of Indian, ... http://kokyued.blogsome.com/2009/08/21/346/ (rough, unchecked for grammatical errors) A brilliant professor who has been hugely influential in my development got me thinking about this movie by asking the following: BW: An interesting film, with the documentary embedded within the "fictional" courtroom drama. What did you make of that? Response: The images of that embedded ... http://kokyued.blogsome.com/2009/07/25/judging-judgment-some-notes-on-judgment-at-nuremberg/ we would have tiger cubsthey would have claws toolong onesalways in ready poseso they can hang from treesto attack us http://kokyued.blogsome.com/2009/07/24/uncertain-future/ B: So do you feel bad about that? X: I have two thoughts on it. First, there is a lot of regret. I was too young, obsessive and ##### to know what was in front of me. And I didn’t even know that I was ##### when I was; it used ... http://kokyued.blogsome.com/2009/07/07/two-threads/ Death and life were just adjacent verandas. ––Rushdie  Rushdie is right, except that in Sankapalli Death and Life were a bit further apart. About fifty meters to be precise. From the door of my again-dying grandfather we walked along the main dirt road, flanked by other houses with their own specters, ... http://kokyued.blogsome.com/2009/07/05/342/ Senior endured the multiple health problems of the very old, the daily penances of bowel and urethra, of back and knee, the milkiness climbing in his eyes, the breathing troubles, the nightmares, the slow failing of the soft machine.––Rushdie A running critique of American culture, one that has become a cliché, ... http://kokyued.blogsome.com/2009/06/22/grandfather/ I’ve just returned from Tirupati and the trip solidified an idea that was already coming together in my mind. I will never go there again. I will never visit another temple that has any kind of VIP Darshans. Period. Because we are privileged and my aunt is a ranking government ... http://kokyued.blogsome.com/2009/06/20/on-temples/