..: An interesting morning that followed an uninteresting evening. I had to bow out of PW’s offer for another fire, flesh, and frankincense primal evening, the pressure of work too much for frivolity. Continued the Inquisition Rack-like punishment of the MMW Database, trying to put on what I call the “finishing touches” but really that means filling in all the gaping holes I left, package it in the appropriate formats, and send it off to the gurus in the Academic Computing Services. I did, however, take a few moments to pursue my private education in the cowboy-mythos, with another Western: this time, The Unforgiven with (and directed by) Clint Eastwood. I do believe that the Cowboy is a recent archetype, and should you reverse-engineer our (and here I mean, of course, the ol’ U S of A’s) present conflicts, you will find an awkward maverick with a Stetson, whose only and true friend is his horse, an animal of unquestioning loyalty and devotion and– importantly– no intellectual input of its own.
But the interesting morning– well, in the deep of the night I ripped a CD of Bela Bartok’s (pardon the lack of accents) piano works– Romanian Folk Dances, Hungarian Folk Tunes, Rondos based on Folk tunes, peasant songs, and the like– and I am listening, well-pleased, at this moment. But, to keep with the Eastern-European theme, I just met with a certain Katarzyna, a Polish physician renting a studio near SDSU. The studio was funny– and I mean interesting, and odd, but quite a possiblity– and the bathroom was beautiful, almost larger than the other “room” itself (which included a mini-kitchen)…
Anyway– I must return to the work. More places to view today… more data to base.