Westworld. PART II.

Westworld Part II : The Semantics.

For those of you familiar with my reviews, a great part is focused on the choice of words, and their meanings, and Westworld introduced me to a host (pun-intended) of words that I had never seen before in the light I saw them in now, and I will always see them in from now.

rind.

= the tough outer skin
of certain fruit,
especially citrus .

= zest.

= peel.




Judas steer. 

A Judas goat is a trained goat used in general animal herding. Cattle herders may use a Judas steer to serve the same purpose as a Judas goat. The technique, and the term, originated from cattle drives in the United States in the 1800s. The term is a reference to the biblical character Judas Iscariot.

archetype and stereotype. 

Stereotype (n): A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Archetype (n): a very typical example of a certain person or thing; types that fit fundamental human motifs. A trope is a character that puts that archetype in a cultural context.

baroque = 1. relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed Mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail. Major composers include Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel; Caravaggio and Rubens are important baroque artists.  2 highly ornate and extravagant in style.

depredation = an act of attacking or plundering.

reverie = 1 a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream. 2 an instrumental piece suggesting a dreamy or musing state. 3 a fanciful or impractical idea or theory

aberrant = departing from an accepted standard.

lobotomy = a surgical operation involving incision into the prefrontal lobe of the brain, formerly used to treat mental illness.

duplicitous = deceitful. In LAW (of a charge or plea) containing more than one allegation.

 a level of moral culpability *

culpability = responsibility for a fault or wrong; blame.

pandering to your baser instincts * 

:P


bootstrap = In COMPUTING a technique of loading a program into a computer by means of a few initial instructions which enable the introduction of the rest of the program from an input device.

A ticker tape parade is a parade event held in a built-up urban setting, allowing large amounts of shredded paper (originally actual ticker tape, but now mostly confetti) to be thrown from nearby office buildings onto the parade route, creating a celebratory effect by the snowstorm-like flurry.

primacy = 1 the fact of being pre-eminent or most important. 2 the office, period of office, or authority of a primate of the Church. 3. PSYCHOLOGY the fact of an item having been presented earlier to the subject (especially as increasing its likelihood of being remembered).
retrospective = 1 looking back on or dealing with past events or situations. 2 (of an exhibition or compilation) showing the development of an artist's work over a period of time. 3 (of a statute or legal decision) taking effect from a date in the past.

cornhusker = 1 a person or device that removes husks from corn. 2 (usually capitalized) A person who is a native or resident of the U.S. state of Nebraska.

humdinger = a remarkable or outstanding person or thing of its kind.

bespeak = 1. be evidence of; indicate. 2. order or reserve (something) in advance. 3. speak to.

yammer = 1 make a loud, repetitive noise. 2 talk volubly.

pyriokytenic effect = (in science fiction) the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power. 

dissonant = unsuitable or unusual in combination; clashing.

existential crisis =  a moment at which an individual questions the very foundations of their life: whether this life has any meaning, purpose, or value...This issue of the meaning and purpose of existence is the topic of the philosophical school of existentialism. existential dread, existential question.

Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor) is a principle from philosophy. Suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence. In this case, the simpler one is usually better. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation is.

pestilence = a fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.

Turing test = a test for intelligence in a computer, requiring that a human being should be unable to distinguish the machine from another human being by using the replies to questions put to both.

diddle= cheat or swindle (someone) so as to deprive them of something.

simulacrum

= an image or representation 

of someone or something.

 = an unsatisfactory imitation 

or substitute.

cornerstone =  1 an important quality or feature on which a particular thing depends or is based. 2 a stone that forms the base of a corner of a building, joining two walls. COMPARE with "Keystone".

reprobate =  1 an unprincipled person. 2 (in Calvinism) a sinner who is not of the elect and is predestined to damnation.

anachronism = a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. 2 the action of attributing something to a period to which it does not belong.

Westworld. PART I

Welcome to my first series review. Westworld. I wasn't aware starting out that it was going to have another season, but that's now heartbreaking. It got me off on a whole new tangent as to what ideal writers do, if the writers of this world are writing great shit but their way of doing it is unaesthetic. Writers are stopping work on creations they have half published; they're telling us new things about the book after it has been published for years, making us change our cognitions on the basis of what they believed. So unaesthetic. Shouldn't they know where it's going...have some semblance of comprehension if not completion. You don't just start writing and then publish it part by part...like Wattpad? Or film it part by part. Think Gangs of Wasseypur...it was in two parts, but they were filmed consistently and released separately. That's whole. Doesn't give a differentiated outlook. Result.
When I put up my story on Wattpad I had the whole thing written out and I just put up every part after editing. Others start putting it up as soon as they have an idea, and the more disciplined writers finish it. Which makes me think of whether writers should be disciplined. The two streams, we come back to that. Art and Logic. Rationality. Principle.
Impetuous publishing results in those other writers letting more people look at their actual work, while most of my work sits in "Trash" folders, hated and loved by me and only me. Is that good or bad, that I don't let people see work that I know is bad, that I'm not proud of it, that I desire to be perfect, my work to be perfect?
And then are those people who say, oh, just let someone look at it, doesn't matter if it's crap, they'll guide you to write better. But it does matter, especially to someone who doesn't even know if you should write crap at all. There have been so many writers who thought to themselves, I won't write anything if it is shit. I'll wait till I have something of value to write about. I'm not there yet, but I'm thinking about it, and I definitely can't let people read the shit that I write. So why do others? Are they wrong? Aren't they real writers? How do I know?
If we come to the conclusion that they are actually not real writers, we still can't deny that what they have written is some fucking great shit. So they are really good story-tellers, that's a fact. What they have done is ground-breaking. So is writing more than story-telling? Yes. The latter is an art. I thought the former is an art, too. Is it a discipline? What is it?
And back to where I started, there's another season coming. It's so heartbreaking to have incomplete fandoms swirling in your brain. And then there are my own stories with nowhere to go and they keep mixing and matching and lost connections, refusing to condense. There is more substance and they're incomplete, I think it's really belitting to be kept waiting.
Which, again, brings us to the author-reader relationship. Speaking of which, the difference in those who call themselves authors and writers. Who call themselves readers first, and I write a little bit. Who pride themselves on reading only. Who say they don't have time to read anymore, after they started writing.

Novelist = one who writes novels. Writer = one who expresses ideas in writing. One engaged in literary work. Author = a person who writes a novel, poem, essay etc, the composer of a literary work. But I'll address this in another post. And the author-reader relationship, interdependence. Submission, the wait, and the desperation. And the expectations. I mean, damn.

So in a circle, my first series review. I'll be doing it in parts, of which this was the first. Stay tuned for the second!

Sev7n.

This is an attempt to do a "Movie Feels" for once, because I always do "Book Feels"and "Movie Reviews". This is probably going to stay unpublished in my thing, but here goes.

I watched this movie and I felt a savage sense of loss.
Ernest Hemingway ~ "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." Somerset the protagonist agrees with the second.

Attrition ~ sorrow for sin that falls short of contrition.
       SOMERSET: Attrition. When you regret your sins, but not because you love God.
           MILLS: Like, because someone's holding a gun on you.

"Why always like this? Only after the fact... this sudden realization, that if you shoot someone, or stick a knife in them, that person will cease to exist."  Somerset. 

Pathetic soul needs to read > Seven Terraces of Purgation, Dante, Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost, Purgatory, The Life and Time of Charlie Manson, The Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

"It's a fine line between insane and inspired." Somerset.

"In any major city, minding your own business is a perfected science. There's a public crime prevention course offered at the precinct house once a month. The first thing they teach is that you should never cry "help." Always scream "fire," because people don't want to get caught up in anything. But a fire... that's an evening's entertainment. They come running." Somerset.

"Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention." John Doe

I just don't think I can continue living in a place that embraces and nurtures apathy as if it was a virtue. 

Pederast >  Pederasty ~ sexual activity involving a man and a boy.

Reference, Sodom and Gomorrah, https://www.gotquestions.org/Sodom-and-Gomorrah.html

The Counsel Of Strangers

Rumi ~
Discursiveness dies and gets put in the grave.
This contemplative joy does not.
This present thirst is your intelligence,
not the back-and-forth, mercurial brightness.
Scholarly knowledge is a vertigo,
an exhausted famousness.
Listening is better.

Rumi ~
This is how a human being can change :
There's a worm addicted
to eating grape leaves.
Suddenly, he wakes up,
call it grace, whatever, something wakes him,
and he's no longer a worm.
He's the entire vineyard,
and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks,
a growing wisdom and joy
that doesn't need
to devour.

Dead man talking.

This is my first film review. The film is Dead Man Talking, a french film directed by Patrick Ridremont. It is the story of an execution, touching and droll.
The movie takes off noting the attitude of general indifference around the execution of an anonymous criminal. When asked to say something as a last word, William starts telling anecdotes from his life, interesting and moving. A mere formality rapidly becomes a nightmare for the prison director and a major issue  in a local electoral campaign.
The characters are beautifully spun, the film is never too slow or too fast. The dialogue is catchy and tastefully funny, though sometimes a little slapstick trickles in. Unexpectedly witty and loqucious, William Lamers takes us on a tour of his life. Even without an equal amount of screen "show and tell", the other characters are not at all flat, but layered and textured with finesse. From their interactions with Lamers and each other, we find innocuous flaws and pains and struggles and secrets. Makes for a harrowing, beautiful two hours. 

Phases

Phases : A Ramble.

Teenage is a phase. Childhood is a phase. Some pretty. Some ugly. Enjoy where you are. Path that counts, the destination is just that. But no, I see my child slipping into my phase that I used to be. I see my mistakes that I made. My child will make my mistakes. Do I want that ?
But the mistakes that are seen clearly. The good things are not. Don't deny a phase, enjoy where you are. But deny the mistakes, how to then find. What good rests. Don't deny a phase. Find out who you are. Does the phase change ?
The phases in the phase. The phasing of the phase. The phase phasing. Does it make sense. The phases. The phase. Change. And changes. Changing. Mistakes. Doing. Find what is left, seeing what is seen, growing scared, growing thus scared.
I see my child making my mistakes. I find mistakes, so not to make. I show my child my mistakes, so not to make. The good shall we find on our own. 

Pansexual.

weer towards intellect ?

where is it coming from 

this attraction ?

am I just another
wandering traction ?

'cause I don't want to be. 

Feminist

trying to be
gender blind here. 

! God of the Wild Pan

persons believe

what they want to 

see what they want 

feel likewise 

don't see why in freedom
being sadness 

see why I'm gender blind ?

I could love you

today or tomorrow 

if I love you 

I will not know you
feel you today

and tomorrow.
fill up your forever ?