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Shut down at 8:30 last night to finish reading
Timothy Morton's Ecology without Nature.                
A synopsis of his project can be deduced from    
these five sentences which appear on page 179:
  Are we trying to get rid of duality 
  in our urge to get rid of dualism?   
  If we turn all of nature into subject      
  then we lose its otherness.  If we      
  turn it into object then we lose its   
  nonreified quality.  If we say nature     
  is "subject plus object" then we mix       
  the unmixable and relapse into the    
  original dualism.  If we say it is    
  neither, then we fall into nihilism.     
                                               
Much of today was spent away from here, doing
mostly grocery shopping.  So it is 9:19 PM.    
                                                
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Yesterday the DJIA closed below 8000.  Today
it closed up nearly 300 points.  Beneath my   
CNO post at Money Rho is comment eight.             
                                              
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Fieled's conversation with Hutchison hit a   
gravel patch, but hopefully they will get   
through it; yet commendable as the desire     
to mend the rift between the two leading   
factions of poets in this nation is, I do  
not think much more than a clearer under-
standing of each will come of it.  And it  
may be that that is sufficient.          
                                             
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Have changed my Literary links section to 
Literary and related.  Will be adding a   
link shortly.                              
                                           
                                              
                                         
                                          
                                              
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