Testing, testing, one, two, three.
Okay, it's Thursday, February 13th, 8.29am and I'm driving to work, heading southbound on the 101. Just passing Alam Polly right now and I'm going to the Palm Trees surrounding Branch House. And the graffiti train is off to my left. There seems to be some heavy clouds in the direction of Bay. Not super heavy obviously. But yeah, that's what it looks like today. Context. I had to work at home last night, completing a bunch of tickets for Big Give. That was annoying. I think that put me in a bad mood in addition to the road rage that I had to deal with. That kind of was a bit contagious for me, which went into a little road rage for me also. And of course, cream, not waking up, being a typical teenager. Then when I try to wake him up, he yells at me. And then he doesn't want to help. He doesn't want to contribute at all to making his lunch. Or even telling me what we should put in his lunch. And yet he wants to complain about it at the same time. Or criticize what I did or didn't put in it. It's just something I pushes my buttons really bad. Cannot complain about something that you had no part in. It's just unbelievable. If you do have a complaint, you keep it to yourself. Anyway, I'm back on the road. I started listening to Anatham and I got another idea for Flight of course. So I want to dictate that now, which I'll do in the next moment.
Okay, it's 8.32 am Thursday, February 13th. This is the third dictation for this note. I just finished listening to a portion of Anathem and I got an idea for Flight of Wars. It has to do... I started I was listening to the I guess tour that Erasmus is giving and how the entrance to the hall where the statue of Noah's or Kenos's and Hylia and Deyat are... he describes his maze like and dark, labyrinthine and I was thinking of and how you know depending on it on your perception of... well, the way one would interpret their own sense is is somewhat perceived darkness has something to fear others would perceive darkness as something to learn from and so I think that was perhaps one of the suggestions at least that's how I received that and with respect to Rosalithia who has a fear of the unknown and it's really more of a fear of the imperceptible not of the unknown and so she will have kind of a panic attack similar to the one she had on the plane but this time it will be in the market in Egypt and it will be you know there's there will be a moment where she and Horace are separated and for whatever reason I don't know and perhaps either he is just a few doors down like in another you know merchant looking at something else perhaps a you know a gift for a friend or she may have wandered a little further feeling like you know feeling just a you know I think this is more appropriate where she started to trust him and feel comfortable around him and that comfort you know eased up her guard in Egypt and she immediately perhaps wandered further than she thought she could and so what we're describing here is the adolescent behavior in which one will wander off or perhaps challenge authority but and and perhaps pave attempt to pave a new path and in that attempt they may or they will inevitably make a mistake because it's their first time because they are paving it and the the process of learning from that first mistake is a is a is a return home is essentially a nod to their parents like okay I get it it's not that easy and I need to respect your teachings and perhaps learn a bit more about how I should proceed and so that's what this experience is for Prosa Alithia so the market represents the maze of life life that at adolescents and how the perception of the world is you know we can describe things as like oh that there's this you know how does a perhaps a teenager perceive of the world versus an adult like or a wiser like a 30 year older or 40 year old and so again how can we demonstrate that by showing scenes in the market perhaps there's a you know a pregnant woman who is getting ripped off you know because she really wants that for her child and and that's a representation of how that's a you know kind of a metaphor for that for how we can misunderstand things at an early age you know money the the the value of things is is almost the value of material things is almost an inverse to one's own wisdom and but at the same time the true appreciation of something the true value of it shows their wisdom and so a pregnant woman represents a child and therefore knows nothing of the monetary value and so is willing to pay triple the price for something that you know say the old Egyptian grandmother comes in and starts arguing with the man and telling him this is you know this what are you talking about so and how do you convey that scene so that you're still retaining that metaphor but showing it in you know dialogue and description I'm in the middle of traffic now and I need to eat my breakfast so I'm pausing