Caliban

I wasn't very good at essays and themes in college, but I liked working up one for the Tempest--it's just the neatest of Shakespeare's plays...and when I was reading Graves, my attention perked when he went on about the Tempest, and said of one Caliban's speeches, that in the lines was 'the perfect suspension of time'...there are emotions that maybe only poetry can render...

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Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again.

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Retirement...actually, I'm just sorta getting along on the social security, as I once did with rental from my house, and am only retired in that I don't have a day job...and not having a routine, I'm asleep and awake at odd times, and find when I wake up from sleeping, and still groggy, I just go back to sleep!...and when awake, I often stay up almost like twenty four hours, just too many things to look into!!...that, and age, makes for a kinda napping sleep, and I'm dream seeing a lot of dreams, some very elaborate, like one last night...at the end, I told the gathered at a beach front home (dream was about a cross country trip to like Florida) while we looked over the ocean, 'give it a Hollywood ending!'...and a rich musical strain started up as I woke!...I've thought to go back to work, harness again to that routine, but, but, there's things to study, and give the opportunity too, that last hard to explain!...well, it's like the randomness that took me to the gg library, and happened on a book by a lawyer, a biography of his life in late 19th century California...it may have been self published, or sympathy published, as it was just a personal account, very bloggish!...misfortune befell him, and he had to have a leg amputated at the knee, and while on morphine, he recounts his dreams...they were so remarkable that the LA Times printed them...this like at the turn of the century...and readers of the Times, some with self similar medical experiences, wrote in telling how like his dreams were to theirs...I'll have to find that book if it is still there...finding dreams by others that are in print, and commenting on them here, might be the way to go about!...Caliban looks to be the model for Tolkien's Gollum...first text link about (suspension of time) is from this book quoted at that web page:

Shakespeare Closely Read: A Collection of Essays : Written and Performance Texts

 edited by Frank Occhiogrosso...the Graves' comment is in the White Goddess...there are authors who seem to have really extensive knowledge of dreams, actually, just really extensive knowledge of like everything...what I have in mind here is my reading Jack London's Call of the Wild...he has like a whole page on how White Fang's experiences have honed his reflexes until he is like super fast...that's like arcane, occult knowledge, displayed commonly now in every kung fu movie, but in London's time?

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 To sights and sounds and events which required action, he responded with lighting-like rapidity.

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lol...thought to search 'kung fu reflexes', and it brought up this youtube clip from 'Chuck'...the comedy spoof on spys vs spys...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qY58JyM23o