It’s ok if I just read it. I CAN’T fuck it up, though. What they see has to completely contradict what they hear. Can I maintain this for the entire duration? Ahh, we shall see. Yes, we shall.

Chap has grass in his hand. spaz grass Chap spazzes an pulls more grass to spazzz again
he throws his hands (full of grass) shakes his head shakes his hair
(full of grass) and roars a mighty grass spazz roar
Chap has grass in his hair spazz grass in his hair
spazz grass
Chap spazzes and shakes more grass from his head.


The girls will sit at their table. They will let the men across from them gaze into their gorgeous eyes. Is this for admiration? No, they are too young. This is for practise and nothing else, you must understand.

Now, are these my thoughts, or JoseF’s? JoseF’s, o’course, though his mind doesn’t hardly ever correspond to what he’s really lookin at.

Well, here’s an inerestin event for me to capture: a conversation. A dispute, even.

“So, like. There’s gotta be somethin that we want just for itself. Y’know, like, we want it in and of itself, kinda, a’not becuz of anything else. Right? An then, like maybe there’s this one good thing that we hold up above everything else, an like this is what goodness is, see?”
“Yeah, I guess. Like sex, or somethin. Maybe that’s kinda like how everyone needs certain things to live. I mean like, the species -the whole species- or somethin. I think the most important thing of all is heat. The sun, y’know. Fire. I’s ju’so basic. I’s the most basic thing ever. Everyone needs the sun, an really, the sun is jus fire. So, everyone needs fire. People can swap an exchange things, but ultimately, it’s all for fire. It all comes down to fire. It’s like how money is just a medium of exchange. It’s not the money itself that’s important, it’s what the money gets you.”
“Yeah, it’s sort of like that, I guess. But the thing is that the general public might not actually know what goodness is. It might only be people that really spend a lotta time thinkin bout that kinda thing, like you know, students... political science students or somethin. It migh’take alotta education or somethin to figure out what goodness is, y’know?”
“Well, I don’t think it matters how old you are. Old people act like little kids, an sometimes like, little kids end up bein really wise. It’s like life and death, bein awake or sleepin, it’s all the same dream, eh?”
“I totally agree with that. A person doesn hafta be old to be wise. An sometimes really old people are actually pretty stupid. It doesn make any difference whether yer young or not. It’s more like what the person does with the knowledge. I’s like, if a person puts a certain amount o’rational logical thought into their lives, maybe they have a chance at obtainin goodness.”
“For sure. Yeah, like, anyone can have understanding. That’s the important thing to remember, though. If you’re smart, i’s like yer duty to report back to the people who aren’t as smart -”
“But, just cuz a person is smart, or is really good at somethin, doesn mean that they’re gonna be happy. That person could still totally suffer for their whole life.”

“Yeah, I know that. Gawd. But I’m sayin there’s like this divine source of power that feeds us...”

Hey, I jus remembered, K Jan gave me another’eport. Yeah, pretty fanciful and articulate guy, da’s for goddam sure. He gets pretty deep into the details. Fairly well-written. His bio don show anythin bout ever livin in a city anywhere near where Chicago used to be.

SPY #060997 007
REPORT #2
DAILY OBSERVATIONS:
There’s quite a few ravens around here.
One of my teachers is pregnant. I hope she doesn’t pick me to hate.

DRILL EXCERCISE
This pretend mission came from my grandfather, well, I guess not directly. See, he mentioned in a letter that he used to come to Chicago pretty often on business trips a long time ago. He stayed at a hotel called the Knickerbocker. He looked on my mom's street map of Chicago when she got back but I guess he couldn't find where it was supposed to be. So, that's what I'm going to do. It's not a real mission because there's really no point in it but it's good practice. Anyway, I just wanted to request permission to pursue this course of action.




I’ll have to come up wid a very specific mission for him to pursue an see what he does wid it. I’m very inerested in dis Chicago shit. I want him to tell me more bout dat for sure. I’ll hafta think bout dat one a bit. A’right. I can feel my superiors shoutin digression at me. So, le’s jus move on, shall we? Here I am at yet anotha table. Fillin up yet anotha notebook. Here comes Randt again, spewing more of his’tupid shit.

“Take Joe, for instance. Totally stuck in the eighties. He puts everyone into categories and gets so caught up in them that he totally forgets about people, like what real people are like. He's that whole Ringwald movie series all rolled into one. And the truth is, people just aren't like that anymore. Maybe its the drug movement, maybe it’s post-modern ecclecticism. Call it what you will, but the distinctions between different types of people have broken down.”
“Yeah, man. I see whachew sayin but yo, it ain dat pos modern shit that I’m worryin bout. I’s like this new generation, dey jus don get it. Dey all on about de same fuckin ol trip. I’s all bout the fuckin Lexus, an the prim us so we shine. Mansions, jewels, an swimmin pools. Da’s all dey on about. I’s frontin. I’s a hustler’s mine, I’m telling you.”
“No, but that’s exactly what I’m talkin about, see? Like you already put a whole buncha people into one big category when you said ‘this new generation’, see? You get it? Categories like that don’t work anymore.”
“Yeah, but you just said, ‘categories like that’ so, isn that like talkin about a category of category?”
“Uh... Oh yeah. Damn it. You are one smart-ass bitch.”
“Don I know it. Hey, got any cigarettes?”
“Sure thing. Take this, but I gotta get goin. I guess I’ll see ya later.”
“Yeah, thanks.”




Hierarchical Observation
“Later, [Janet] conceived a system of the hierarchy of functions with five levels, at the top of which is the function of reality.” If the function of reality does sit at the top of some sort of hierarchical system, then it is difficult to see how it could at the same time act as a coefficient of such a system.
The ‘kinds’ investigated in Quine’s paper seem to rely heavily on the concept of similarity. Though Quine maintains that the relation between similarity and kind is somewhat unclear, he nevertheless believes that “the two notions are in an important sense correlative”. In this way, one might be led to wonder how a discussion of ‘kinds’ could take place without addressing what requirements of similarity form the basis of distinction between classes, categories and their members. The most immediate answer would be the one that Quine supplied: the notion of similarity is one that is innate to the human intellect, and this notion aids humans in picking out the natural kinds that exist in the world. How does one become cognizant of the ways in which nature distinguishes itself into kinds? But, if our notion of similarity is not picking out kinds that exist in nature, then what does it pick out? Quine believed that there was nothing more basic to thought and language than a sense of similarity. “Every reasonable expectation depends on resemblance between the present utterance of the word and past utterances of it. And every reasonable expectation depends on resemblance of circumstances, together with our tendency to expect similar causes to have similar effects.” One can see how this statement could possibly apply to the scientific endeavour of classification, however, Quine posited the basic intuitive sense of similarity and the theoretic sense of similarity on opposite ends of a scale that provides the basis for assessing the ‘maturity’ of a science. Such an assertion might lead one to wonder if the basic notion of similarity plays any role at all in the distinction of kinds that is present in a science that has reached maturity. Quine further complicates this matter by suggesting that in a mature science the notion of similarity disappears altogether. This is perhaps in part because Quine believes that the scientific standing of a general notion of similarity, or kind, is dubious at best. Does this entail that a notion of similarity, or kind, is not employed at the level of a mature science?

Ahh, yes, the awful standards. They’ve been found lacking once again. It is also formed in the skin by irradation with ultra-violet lite o’sterols such as ergosterol. Vitamin D is present in milk but its content is variable. The amount in milk is increased by d’action of ultra-violet lite, being at its lowest in de late winter. If it occurs in de first year de skull is principally involved because it grows fastest. A delay in closure o’d’anterior fontanelle. Sitting up an walking can be delayed. Nasal catarrh and an iron-deficiency anaemia are common and’e child is subject to attacks of bronchitis. Maladaptive physical symptoms: tachycardia, pupillary dilation, elevated blood pressure, perspiration or chills, nausea and vomitting.

Associated features: if taken intravenously, amphetamine or similarly acting sympathomimetics produce a characteristic ‘rush’ of well-being and confidence. Intoxication with high doses o’substances in this class may be associated with transient ideas o’reference, paranoid ideation, a subjective sense of profound thoughts, increased sexual interest, ringing in the ears, hearing one’s name called, and a sensation of insects crawling up the skin (formication) or seeing insects. Increased curiousity and bizarre behaviour, such as the sorting of objects into various piles, are sometimes observed. Stereotyped movements of mouth and tongue may be noted. Dis type o’stuff mostly applies to Chap.

When the immediate psychoactive effects of high doses o’substances in this class have subsided, they are replaced by unpleasant rebound effects (the ‘crash’) including a dysphonic mood and a craving for the substance. Other possible symptoms of the ‘crash’ include anxiety, tremulousness, irritability, and feelings of fatigue and depression.
Oh, man. I gotta get going. I s’posed to be auditing a class today.