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Mar 20, 2023 2 hr 24 min

144 - Extinguishing the Flame

from Lost Xplorers Hosted by J David Osborne & Kris Saknussemm

Today we talk about invisible architecture, how buildings can define time, and holding ideas loosely. I wrote these notes while scrubbing my floor on my hands and knees. It was a satisfying experience. As I write this, my son is banging on the glass of the fireplace. I told him to stop. He doesn’t look happy about that. Notes: Slapstick double helix, old school skater style, aesthetics as a manifestation of harmony, defining "woke," Hostile Witness, embracing the edge, needing a reminder, weapon salve as longitudinal measurement, Max Ernst's father's tree, building invisible cathedrals, invisible force data, the hospital as iconic form of architecture, the way that hospitals are decorated, Kris tells hospital stories, morgue pranks, remembering labor times, verbing nouns, post partum, butterfly messages, taking wounds with you, Infinite Jest's big metaphor, circling back to your own footprints, a dragon story, Hindu shadow puppets healing children with deformities, things only existing because they are remembered, Bishop Berkeley, pine needle tea, intellect of the first water, the joy of being wrong, cyberpunk dreams, listening to Chinese, "Through the Looking Glass," and dream causality.

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