Alright, it's October 16th and it's Wednesday about 8.50 am. I'm commuting to work just passing the Marin Wood St. Vincent Drive exit heading southbound on the 101. And I've been listening to Stephen King's new audio book called the Institute and started listening to the chapter on introducing the kid who's got a really amazing talent for knowledge and the conversation where he's having with his parents over dinner over pizza as to how they're going to fund sending him to this special school. That's affected me kind of in a strange way, deeply because I'm obviously not going through the exact same thing, but you know the news about my son having an accelerated math capacity and the offer to recommend him for the local accelerated charter school. And you know one starts to wonder, you know, how did this all, how did I get here, how did this happen? It's interesting also is in the book, Stephen King references his ability to read the entire works of Kormack McCarthy or one of the students in the school did so. The Broad School I think. And that just kept me all wound up, you know, bringing back the emotions and the

I was en route to there by stupid telemarketer, but anyway. Yeah, so this is bringing back all the emotions and the desire to finish a flight of horse. And it helped me to kind of pin down the setting around the story. The, you know, the, what I find really fascinating is how two people from to disparate and distant parts of the world decided they would come together. And you know, it, one, it makes me realize that I don't know enough about that time period. In fact, there probably was a lot more communication and connection between people around the world. But when you put, you know, okay, maybe in Cairo, you see the tourists, maybe, maybe in, but in West Texas in the Mesa, there is nothing. You only see white people in Mexicans and an occasional African American. So, yeah, the desire to see much of the world was, you know, strong, I think, in both of them one, you know, you know, on the Texas side, I guess you would see people, you know, the immigration is for labor. The only reason they saw people from other worlds was for labor, was because they were cheaper labor. It was no interest in, in, just the cultural discovery of these people or the cultural communication or interaction. Egypt, on the other hand, you would interact with tourists who they, I mean, well, tourists and I guess expats, but not so much expats as much as tourists. So, yeah, it's a little bit of both, but, but again, I think what I think is powerful about the stories is the mystery lies in why they wanted to come together. Maybe not so much why you want to meet people from other parts of the world, but you do, you do, I mean, it's not a strange thing. The other, the other part is, um, can I describe the other part is, is that there, there are those who are facilitating the communication through technology. And yet, they're also being mysterious about how they do it. And that is really a metaphor. It's a metaphor, but it's kind of a, yeah, it's a metaphor for the way we perceive technology. And there's a bunch of techies out there and they just get it done, you know, and so there's a bit of a wizard of Oz complex going on there. And so, yeah, so I think I need to emphasize anything that appears, you know, really isolated. In Florence is setting and emphasize a different type of isolation, you know, in, um, I forgot his name already. That is strange. Wow. All right. Maybe I know, I'm going to see, I had gone through so many character names that no wonder I couldn't figure out which one I wanted. But, um, yeah, the seams world is one where, you know, the, the, the, the, you know, in the 50s in Egypt, it was, there were Arabs. There were Egyptians and there were captives. He's a copped. And so, and then there were obviously Greeks and Italians. But, um, the seam would be, you know, an Egyptian Muslim, but like, you know, and the era of British occupation will still be in his memory. Even though, you know, he kind of came of age as they were leaving. But, uh, the point is is that you are, it leaves you with the psychological impact that, but the British are the ones who can travel because they have an empire. And because they have an empire, they get to see the world. But that world is crumbling and, and, and we will get to see the world too. So, that is the kind of cultural and historical context in which Nassim comes of age. And so, his desire to see the world is to, is driven by this inner desire to conquer the British. But, uh, subconsciously. But, yeah, and so, but even more subconsciously than all of that is the concept of the birds. And how we watch the birds travel so easily, so effortlessly and co-mingle with other birds. Um, and so, that's when, you know, uh, that's how they, they also subconsciously want to. So, I think perhaps if we were to look at this from an evolutionary perspective, and I don't necessarily mean evolutionary, but, um, from a, from a human and mental perspective, one could argue that people prior to recorded history felt the same way. They were, they were jealous of the birds, envious of the birds. They could not travel the way they could. They were gods. Okay, so, um, in addition to the early creation story, there will have to be a story of the story that sets up the birds as gods. And that will be in the lore and beliefs of whichever people we're talking about in pre-recorded history. And so, um, to become a bird is, is foolish essentially. We, one must respect the birds and keep their distance. Um, but do not try to become a bird. But this is in the lore. This is, so if we were to do this kind of compare the, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the aves, which is the secret society of, the bird, worshipers, they're more than just bird worshipers, obviously, the, you know, they're more secret than the, the masons and the Templars. The bird worshipers were, uh, believed that the preservation of the birds and a complete, uh, understanding of how they communicate and how they navigate the world and migrate, uh, is important to understanding and, and, and aiding mankind in its continual development. Um, so yeah, so, uh, this, yeah, this, this particular, I guess I can leave it there. I don't know if I have anything more to say. Um, so yeah, ending.