This article is a  different perspective on the looming apocalypse, up close and

personal as the old TV line goes. The article is entitled On Apocalypse Art, 

Climate Divination, and "the Blob." The Blob  came out in 1958, before many

of you were born. I was not yet 20 when I saw it, though my memory has me

seeing it as a 10-year old. I guess watching it brought on a child state.

The article is subtitled, "Molly Gallentine's Summer of Professionally

Contemplating he End of Humanity."

Read this article slowly and let it in.

Here is the link:

On Apocalypse Art, Climate Divination, and The Blob

Here is the direct link:

Well worth your time.

Russ

Cèilidh of Dreams, scenes 19-20 now available.

Here is the direct link:

http://fexandcoo.website/COD%20-%20Scenes%2019-20.pdf

Enjoy!

Russ and Paco

The old man tapped his cane three times before he took a step and then three times again for the next step. In this way, stooped and bent, and hands shaking a bit, he made progress, slow but sure, to the librarian's desk. He tipped his red beret to the young women standing there watching him. She smiled in greeting and asked if she could help him.

"Yes," he said. "I'm in need of a book."
"Well," she replied, I hope we have what you are looking for. What is the title?"
"I know longer remember it, nor the author, but it is exactly the book I need now."
"Well then, do you recall what it is about?"
"Well, I have an image that's clear, but I can't seem to get the words to describe it."
"If you close your eyes, can you see it?"
"Yes, I can see it."
"Maybe you don't need a book."
"Why do you say that? You are a librarian."
"But sometimes, the book you need is not yet written. Perhaps your seeking the book is a way to find that you are the author. Could that be?"

There is a website (wombo.art) that uses artificial intelligence to translate words into artistic images

in various genres (etching, pastel, dark fantasy, mystic, etc.)

Here is the image for the words Fex and Coo in a fantasy style.

What is your reaction to this?

ral

The world may objectively exist but our encounter with it—in whatever way—fictionalizes it.

From most books on writing the novel, you will find that dreams are taboo. “Do not go there” is the general advice.

No one ever asks what novel the dream would write. Truth be told, all dreams are incipient novels.

Dreams, of course, are the focus of endless analysis, but analysis does not write novels, is not interested in this potency, always turning the dream into something else—to be generous, perhaps this too a fiction.

James Walton has reviewed Keith Ridgway’s new novel A Shock, titling his review, “Everything is Fiction,” in the December 16 edition of The New York Review of Books. Read it. Then read Ridgway. Then read your dream.

ral

From Science Daily:

Scientists around the world have been working in earnest to improve understanding of an increasingly virulent superbug, Clostridium difficile. The highly contagious hospital-acquired pathogen, designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of the five most urgent threats to the U.S. healthcare system, causes more than 500,000 infections and 29,000 deaths each year at a total societal cost exceeding $5 billion.

This under reported urgency is likely to become more frequent.

Governments will increasingly try to keep a lid on all "panic inducing" news. This is backward thinking when what is necessarily is for everyone to learn just what sorts of risks are mounting and the need not to panic, or deny, but to recruit effort in the right direction. Of course the politicization of everything makes this totally unlikely.

~ral

Hi all,

Here's some news from the world of science. Yes, scientists still exist in spite of Trumpian denial.

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html

Physicists Detect Elusive 'Ghost Particles' in The LHC For The Very First Time
https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-neutrinos-may-have-been-detected-at-the-large-hadron-collider?fbclid=IwAR2lKWu6ZjxkUhpmBnBj9fiwl3hw3-SskX7fTEEakDrlCpWxtObJEtDN13E

In the quantum realm, not even time flows as you might expect
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211126130851.htm

ral

There is a lively discussion gong on about this finding at fexandcoo.website