Hayseed Huck
05-06-2010, 05:17 PM
Action at a distance.
The question of whether a man who loves a woman in
another county, state (country) can act 'at a distance'
was still up in the air last month-- maybe not now,
tho,
today,
at this time.
(Note-- as I am wont to do, often, I lace my prose topics
with grammar and usage instruction ((this by no means
means my wiring is flawless(((grammar and usage))) )) ).
In the opening above I wrote "The question of whether ..."
I did not write, "The question of whether OR NOT ..."
'whether or not' is otiose and barbaric.
'whether' itself admits the negative and it admits the
positive.
Why add 'or not' ????
**
If it is a question that can be answered, it can only be
if a fairly rigorous theory of what constitutes 'action'
and 'distance' is set forth and agreed upon. Sometimes it
is difficult to distinguish 'action at a distance' from
'action by contact' (see current theories on Lap Dancing).
I think my lusty emails to a Brazilian women I met at a
poetry site known as Lucy's Flossed Mill, and what has
occurred between us since might be called 'action at a
distance,'— and while I might be talking more about class-
ical electromagnetics than the more ordinary subjects of
lusty emails, I do know that the longer a 'thing' is IN
a given field of force, the more that 'thing' becomes
like the source.
This apothegm is explained very easily.
The longer Janny Maldivious, the women mentioned above,
and a woman given that name by a consensual burst of email
passion one night, she on Ipanema Beach with a laptop and
I in my study with a desktop--
remains in my' 'field of force,' the more she becomes HH,
somewhat like iron filings atop a sheet of metal become
themselves tiny magnets to the greater magnet held below
the plate.
Thus, correspondence by electronic mail is 'action by con-
tact,' -- in 'shared fields of force.’ Thus, as she becomes
HH, I become JM. Yes, and but, I am becoming JH more
than she is becoming like HH.
'Action' is hereby defined as emailing from a distance
words (talk) about what could be done by ‘action at close-
up.’ If I want to say something about my feelings, or how
I imagine her dressed, I can’t travel to Brazil right then,
so I ‘green light.'
If a girl I met at an internet cafe 'in person' wants to
continue our conversation but doesn't want to go back to
that place for personal reasons, that girl will post a po-
em on a shared poetry site. Then she will email me that
she posted the poem.
The poem will contain a secret code that tells me what
she would like me to wear when I email her the next time
I do.
Or she will 'willy-nilly' post something somewhere and
hope I see it-- somewhere where the traffic is fairly
heavy, so the something she posts will be read by those
who are reading things on that site. They, the other read-
ers, will have no idea of what the secret message is.
'Action-at-a-distance' depends on this.
This is an example of what I'm talking about. It is also
something never before talked about-- as the idea is my
own invention.
That's what I rarely see on poetry boards-- people who
bring their own inventions to light. Mainly I see lots
of retreading and rehash of what was talked about years
ago.
But sometime years ago, a person invented a poetrey
forum and waited around to see if it flourished or passed
away.
It was a great invention, and its 'actions' at distance
led to several actions close-up-- when two poets met at
some rural air field outside Tulsa, Oklahoma.
HH
JM
The question of whether a man who loves a woman in
another county, state (country) can act 'at a distance'
was still up in the air last month-- maybe not now,
tho,
today,
at this time.
(Note-- as I am wont to do, often, I lace my prose topics
with grammar and usage instruction ((this by no means
means my wiring is flawless(((grammar and usage))) )) ).
In the opening above I wrote "The question of whether ..."
I did not write, "The question of whether OR NOT ..."
'whether or not' is otiose and barbaric.
'whether' itself admits the negative and it admits the
positive.
Why add 'or not' ????
**
If it is a question that can be answered, it can only be
if a fairly rigorous theory of what constitutes 'action'
and 'distance' is set forth and agreed upon. Sometimes it
is difficult to distinguish 'action at a distance' from
'action by contact' (see current theories on Lap Dancing).
I think my lusty emails to a Brazilian women I met at a
poetry site known as Lucy's Flossed Mill, and what has
occurred between us since might be called 'action at a
distance,'— and while I might be talking more about class-
ical electromagnetics than the more ordinary subjects of
lusty emails, I do know that the longer a 'thing' is IN
a given field of force, the more that 'thing' becomes
like the source.
This apothegm is explained very easily.
The longer Janny Maldivious, the women mentioned above,
and a woman given that name by a consensual burst of email
passion one night, she on Ipanema Beach with a laptop and
I in my study with a desktop--
remains in my' 'field of force,' the more she becomes HH,
somewhat like iron filings atop a sheet of metal become
themselves tiny magnets to the greater magnet held below
the plate.
Thus, correspondence by electronic mail is 'action by con-
tact,' -- in 'shared fields of force.’ Thus, as she becomes
HH, I become JM. Yes, and but, I am becoming JH more
than she is becoming like HH.
'Action' is hereby defined as emailing from a distance
words (talk) about what could be done by ‘action at close-
up.’ If I want to say something about my feelings, or how
I imagine her dressed, I can’t travel to Brazil right then,
so I ‘green light.'
If a girl I met at an internet cafe 'in person' wants to
continue our conversation but doesn't want to go back to
that place for personal reasons, that girl will post a po-
em on a shared poetry site. Then she will email me that
she posted the poem.
The poem will contain a secret code that tells me what
she would like me to wear when I email her the next time
I do.
Or she will 'willy-nilly' post something somewhere and
hope I see it-- somewhere where the traffic is fairly
heavy, so the something she posts will be read by those
who are reading things on that site. They, the other read-
ers, will have no idea of what the secret message is.
'Action-at-a-distance' depends on this.
This is an example of what I'm talking about. It is also
something never before talked about-- as the idea is my
own invention.
That's what I rarely see on poetry boards-- people who
bring their own inventions to light. Mainly I see lots
of retreading and rehash of what was talked about years
ago.
But sometime years ago, a person invented a poetrey
forum and waited around to see if it flourished or passed
away.
It was a great invention, and its 'actions' at distance
led to several actions close-up-- when two poets met at
some rural air field outside Tulsa, Oklahoma.
HH
JM