Hmm. Can you have asynchronous synchronicities? Actually, blogging seems to lend itself to those — which is why, I think, it seems so muddled, but it’s really not. ‘Know what I mean?

Asynchronous development and Andrew Marvell all in one frickin’ comments box. Amazing.

“Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime. . .”

Andrew Marvell (AFAIK)

The myth that may be appropriate is that Alexander thought that the way to solve the problem of the Gordian Knot was to take his sword and cut it. A symmetrical solution where the victor gets to rule the world if you believe in that kind of thing.

Think of that when you feel you need to cut things cleanly as you have been brought up to do. So much that is beautiful has been created by slobs and inepts. So much that is evil has been wrought by those who have a mind for order.

btw, 1, if you’ve clicked through this far, you need to educate yourself about asynchronicity, you really do. And 2, what I wanted to say was that I do feel badly about starting conversations and not staying with them, or having someone really special comment and not acknowledging it (eg., I had a great comment from the man who looks after Lanier Phillips). That sort of thing is shoddy of me, and I feel less than good about it. At the same time, I see how it’s a misplaced attention to detail and to wanting to be perfect, and how it’s not something that helps, but hinders. When you’ve had an authoritarian upbringing, however, bad manners seems like the end of the world, even though the entire rearing was designed to turn you into a prick. Or a self-hating ____ (fill in the blank).