I am everything and yet I am nothing! To me this means I am a part of everything and nothing significant to everything, only to the Creator am I something!

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This too is Maya.

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For Ron --

Make 'em, Make 'em laugh, Make me laugh, Make me...

to bollix a song phrase from Singing in the Rain...
itself a complicated parable of the bollix,
of the balls (new age: bravado, moxie, nerve, chutzpah...)

"Smile, boys, that's the style." from a WWI song.

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Extraneous further articulation:

The paradox of any "Middle" for there to be a "Mid-Life".

Until you're dead, you do not know where the middle of your life is -- or rather, by that time, was -- and even then, you do not know it, simply because you are dead.

Hence, it is just a mistaken mystique, this idea of having a mid-life crisis.

You are always, as the saying goes, living on the edge of time, and possibly without your ever knowing it, this day. this moment is your very last one.

Any crisis is thus, rigorously speaking, "amid-life" one -- you are always "amid" your life, always have been and always will be, as long as you alive.

So, there's that -- this problem Deepak highlights, of finding a way to raise your consciousness to being "amid" life crisis.

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Thank You Donald; if not only for the content, but the good laugh I had this morning.

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2nd errata ==

and here, the Gods must be laughing, for I am...

although, I entered the Parts sequentially,
the display now shows (top to bottom)
(well, this item included)
Errata 2, Errata 1, Part 1, Part 4, Part 3, Part 2.

An inevitable effect, I presume, of this system --
that coherency, like comprehensiveness, is impossible,
even if you strive to arrange for its appearance.

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Errata:

due to the errors of the character counter,
the last line of Part III reads, in full,
"No longer plagued by the demons of Demand."

(Interruptions -- you have to expect them --
The Routines are what make them possible --
and inevitably so!)

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Part I of IV:
Interesting article, concerning specifiable routines,
And their ex-content -- the regular production "quotas".

However, deconstruction teaches us, "Beware the fatal supplement".

What that means is that we have to examine the dis-content,
The stuff that is not included within the "frame"-work --
Such as the stuff that is exotic, exoteric, irregular,
Not-specifiable quantitatively, perhaps, as "uniqueness".

Why is the supplement fatal?

Actually, it is consideration of the supplement that is fatal,
In the sense that it would seem that one only needs expansion,
To include what has been excluded,
To reduce, again, matters to a comprehensive unity,
Regulated by a new, possibly revised single principle.

However, deconstruction also teaches, "No frame is all-inclusive."

This claim is, of course, disputable on many grounds.

Perhaps, for instance, there really is an all-inclusivity ---
A unified field theory, such as physics postulates ought to be out there,
Waiting to be found, and thus finally displacing, say, Newtonianism.
(Scholars in other fields of knowledge likewise profess such faith --
Of a belief in some comprehensive system of tenets (principles) --
From which everything else might be "deduced" as it were,
And which covers all arrangements of facts that ever could possibly be.)

Well, that's one kind of system of faith -- the unity-gang.

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Part IV of IV:
There is always the possibility of wisdom,
Of transcending work, itself, even if that learning is harder,
Rarely achieved, unlike the "normal" adult's ascendance,
Learning to transcend his primary world of "child's" play.

Now, I would like to think (ie, I'd like to believe)
That I could go on with this essay, expanding it again, and again,
Until it contains everything, explaining all matters --

But that, too, is infinitely impossible --
A third lesson deconstruction teaches us:
"All endings, like all beginnings, are made by us
And without us is nothing made that could be,
For Nothing is made unless it could be ended."

Between the Beginning and the Ending,
There is only the possibility of Interruption,
Itself sometimes fatal, and thus an Ending, too --
Reminding us that all Beginnings are also Endings,
Interrupting what was before its own emergence.

F(Unmaking) is all I am doing now... and it is good.

We interrupt this interruption
To return you to your regularly scheduled interruptions.

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Part III of IV:
Trivially, "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy".
Hence, there arises, again, an inevitable question of drawing lines,
Between experiencing the facts of being alive as necessary or as desirable,
An either/or paradox defining some "normal" distribution of time, perhaps,
Stable, perhaps, but ever redefining itself --
Because the time of a life itself is shifting,
From one end to the other end of life --
Seeing the movement of this moving distribution,
We then see that, in truth,
At least at the beginning, a child is always playing, never working,
That he only gradually learns "to work" from others,
As he defines himself relative to those others --
And thus, many, for the many middle years of their life,
Tightly regulate their lives,
In obedience to the perceived commands of production systems...

(Perceived commands are "demands" in supply-demand economic euphemy,
As the metaphysics of their theory compels us to believe
That all "commands" are related to "force" contra "choice" --
Leading, thus, to contemporary paradoxes of free market economics --
Such as the dominance of such a society by hyper-aggressive types,
& their hyper-voracious egotisms, requiring pyramids)

..., but life, however long & "productive" it becomes, ends --
And, before its passing away for us, before we pass away,
Most of us thus learn to wish to return to our childhood,
To retire, be unproductive, even to play --
No longer plagued by the demons o

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