Friday, April 22nd, 2005
Short Note: Enjoy this longer-than-usual entry! Have a great day, everyone!
Last night the dinner with Tom and Gilbert was somewhat confusing. We went through the young actresses (moderately young, between 30 and 40 years old) and we realized that we had to try to contact Sharon Stone. We ate at a good Sardinian restaurant somewhat fashionable. Many dismantled rich people. I continue my readings of Le Fanu: “Green Tea”, in which a German doctor treats the strange melancholy of a reverend applying the ideas of the “metaphysical medicine”, that still hasn’t explained.
10.50 hrs. I spoke with Valeria, who gave me Sharon Stone’s phone number, her address and her multiple emails. I went out for a walk. At a neighborhood bookstore I found a book by James Watson, who, alongside Crick, discovered the “double helix” of the DNA structure. I continue reading, I should say “deciphering”, Bohm. Until a point his thinking is surprising and renovating. Bohm: “Thought can be compared with a dance of the spirit that works in an indicative way (in the same way that the dance of the bees indicates the place in which the flowers that produce honey can be found)”. Dance as a language in which totality predominates, like the language without syntax of the messenger drums in Africa or the intuitive calculus between the Australian aboriginals.
12.00 hrs.At a Spanish restaurant near the hotel (Jamón, Jamón). Frankly springlike day. Makes you want to have a glass of Burgundy. Here I am with a cherry. It’s comical that Bohm can’t think in any other way that isn’t holistic. He states a proposition and adds: “This idea I develop it in chapter 7”. You go to chapter 7, where he says: “I already talked about this in chapter 2”, and there it’s said: “Look for more information in chapter 12”, etc. It’s worse than the I Ching.
I was reading the commentaries of the Chinese language on Wang Fuzhi. It seems that there are complete phrases that can be the subject of another. There’s “actual” combinatorics, the one that the text explicitly gives, and “potential”, the combinations that the text allows.
13.30 hrs. Reading Joseph Fouché: Portrait of a Politician. In the end, the character described by Stefan Zweig is a reasonable man that sees the political process as a totality: terror, reaction, empire and restoration, and who’s capable of foresee it in its details. There’s a lot of the Viennese spirit in that way of understanding the permanent traitor that, seen like this, transform into a transition readjuster inside of the subtotality that is the cycle of the global process of French society.
18.45 hrs. Listening to Jorge’s music and seeing how to integrate it in the film. Tom discovered that Sharon Stone is in London for many weeks shooting the continuation of Basic Instinct. I continue my readings (Le Fanu, etc.). London is the ideal city to real mystery novels and popular science books.
19.45 hrs. At a Japanese restaurant named Waka, quite goo, reading Le Fanu. Again Swedenborg: “Green Tea” (having, as well, green tea) and preparing myself to go sleep after a particularly frugal meal. Outside, sunny still.
Day 1670