@@++> FRAGMENTS:
 
  HUBBLE:
  In trying to keep up (little time) with the Hubble-ish projects
  it seems a new insight a week pops into view (I'm always a bit
  behind, even when I can inderstand it). Barely took on "black holes"
  stealing matter from my universe only to find that there would
  be equivalent "white holes" in another universe sending matter
  back to us ....a black/white pumping fascility!!! (not to mention
  "Electromagnetic vacum flux" as a means to move faster than light!
  This week the terms "MACHOS" & WIMPS brushed by me. But of more
  curiosity interest, was the insertion of firefly genes into grass.
  Now the grass lights up in the dark. It might help if we have to
  mow it at night! Just scratching the surface of possibility, we may
  yet become gauges of our own doings-  a bit more advanced than
  blushing 
 
  PASSING NOTE:
      These past few months I've been working up a latest painting
  which will be "The preparation of Persephone" at her moment just
  before picking the hundred headed narcissus, a project that has
  teased my attention since I actually stood on the mount of ENNA,
  she was dragged under. In working out the details of image and
  "working meaning", I am ever more unsure how philosophy fits into
  working exploration.  Though aware of it's technical-ish definitions,
  it never clarifies in my thinking .....almost a reach for some other
  less abused word not yet into our vocabulary. Your "HOLODECK" as a
  mega metaphor leans in such directions of promise, but is also itself
  some troublesome.............! Most "philosophy" seems predominantly
  an excercise of historical giants, some very little mentioned in its
  own role as an everyday tool.
 
                           @@ ... Dave
 
  P.S. QUESTION! To take advantage of your studies into mythic
       symbologies (especially, "active" plant life), I'm having
       trouble with the meaning of the "hundred headed narcissus"
       that Persephone was about to pick in that instant just before
       her abuction from next to Lake Pergusa. As the flower will
       be included in my painting, I know my grandchildren WILL
       question the WHY and HOW of it. In the Robert Graves "Greek
       Myths" there is some suggestion that the Narcissus is actually
       a numbing narcotic and more likely the Hyacinth, but I can
       find no modern references to either the Narcissus or Hyacinth
       having narcotic properties. .............Any help appreciated.
 
 
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