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Animals and Consciousness
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An article in the Atlantic that speculates upon animals and consciousness. Not that I have any doubt, but it gives some interesting examples with amusing human correlations - for examples, fruit flies, when faced with "dim mating prospects", will seek out alcohol, and trout have been observed fake orgasms to presumably divert the sperm of inadequate suitors...
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/what-the-crow-knows/580726/
The Bartering Picker
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Sunday, a couple more pickers through, one, a younger couple that pick up a couple of cheap vintage cameras and a typewriter, and again help me out by taking some bones and crystals.
The other, a low rent picker, handsy, touches everything, asks prices of things that aren't for sale, fortunately he doesn't have much of an eye....
He notes the bronze bell - "From the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" I said in my ad, and he believed it...wants to trade for cheap reproduction sword, various junktiques in his car boot, I'm explaining, I'm downsizing, letting shit go, don't want more, want less, ...end up getting a couple of mint condition $2.00 Bills, $20, on items that I'd valued at around $60, but really, they're low-end and so - as much to get rid of him as to get rid of junk, I make the deal and send him off.
Most of the people, they've been likable, relateable, him, not-so, and finally he's gone and I can get back to whatever it was I was doing. The $2.00 bills will end up in some Barista's jar as a tip.
The things I collect...
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I mean, everything unto hoarding, but there seem to be a few things in particular. Anything that measures - scientific instruments, telescopes, microscopes, rulers, x-ray, optics, etc. This is a broad interest. Religious iconography, kitsch, juju, Roman Catholic, Buddhist, Etc, quack medicine, clothes - too many, and I've purged these a hundred times, neckties, - easily 1000 (I sorted them today. It took a while...). Cufflinks, Watches, men's accessories, like handkerchiefs, cigarette cases, Stationary, pens, art supplies (oh-man-oh-man-oh-man), rocks, rocks, rocks, sticks, antlers, books, books books, old: lamps, statues, paintings, anything that jogs the imagination or curiosity. Old instruments. I could go on. Collections? Watches. Cufflinks. Neck Ties. Candlesticks. Those are the four major ones. Purge these and I'll be halfway there. Well, no, because these 4 collections take up a very little space comparatively, but those are the ones of interest, the ones I've really gone overboard on, I wonder what - psychologically - that says? Never mind. By the time I figure that one out they'll be gone...
Obstructed
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And I complain that I'm unable to write, obstructed, but there is clearly a relation between the real world and the psychical one. For example my hallway:
This is the hallway. And this - this is a thoroughfare, it's the cleanest aisle in the whole goddamned apartment. The living room is unlivable, the kitchen is already overflowing with projects, the bedroom, overflow for the living room, the bathroom is the only room that's even remotely serviceable. So I spent the day in the bedroom - and by the end it's one room clear. But man oh man do I got to get rid of some stuff...Slowly, slowly...
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