Today's early morning thoughts (before the first cup of coffee) were about nature and nature - the usual sort of auroral ideas that float around. My time-honoured and evasive response to this is socially and physically systemic - the organism is affected by its habitat, and that the habitat operates on an organism. But that led to thoughts of...
Writing a novel, even one that's never going to be published, has strange results on the cognitive functioning. Slowly one starts inhabiting two worlds, and as the writing progresses the second world begins to take over. In the early hours, when your semi-slumber is illuminated by strange juxtaposed fantasies, they are now located in the world you...
Lately I am trying to experiment more with Reality. It has some good points and shouldn't be overlooked as a valuable source of experience. However it is only one component of the creative life, and a fragile one at that. Many people have tried to persuade me that Reality doesn't exist. I disagree. I believe implicitly in Reality - just...