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18 | link: dream | 18 | link: dream |
19 | ... | 19 | ... |
20 | 20 | ||
21 | _YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED_ he sat on the couch at home | 21 | _YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED_ he sat on the couch at home while his mother watched TV and smoked. |
22 | while his mother watched TV and smoked. Dinner had been chicken and peas with | 22 | Dinner had been chicken and peas with milk and afterward Paul and his mother sat on opposite ends of the couch. |
23 | milk and afterward Paul and his mother sat on opposite ends of the couch. At | 23 | At intervals she would look sideways at Paul writing. |
24 | intervals she would look sideways at Paul writing. He pretended not to notice. | 24 | He pretended not to notice. |
25 | 25 | ||
26 | _ART = ARTIFICE_ he wrote. _ARTIFICE MEANS UNNATURAL. ARTIFICE MEANS BUILT. | 26 | _ART = ARTIFICE_ he wrote. |
27 | TO BUILD MEANS TO FIND A PATTERN & FIND A PATTERN IS WHAT WE ARE GOOD AT._ He | 27 | _ARTIFICE MEANS UNNATURAL. |
28 | thought about this while someone else won a car. | 28 | ARTIFICE MEANS BUILT. |
29 | TO BUILD MEANS TO FIND A PATTERN & FIND A PATTERN IS WHAT WE ARE GOOD AT._ | ||
30 | He thought about this while someone else won a car. | ||
29 | 31 | ||
30 | "Do you think humans are good at finding patterns because we are hunters" he | 32 | "Do you think humans are good at finding patterns because we are hunters" he asked his mother. |
31 | asked his mother. She looked sideways at him and said "Sure Paul." "Early on | 33 | She looked sideways at him and said "Sure Paul." |
32 | in our evolution we were hunters right? And to hunt we had to see the | 34 | "Early on in our evolution we were hunters right? |
33 | patterns in seemingly random events, like where the gazelle went each year" | 35 | And to hunt we had to see the patterns in seemingly random events, like where the gazelle went each year" |
34 | "Paul I'm trying to watch TV. If you're going to write this stuff go do it in | 36 | "Paul I'm trying to watch TV. |
35 | your room you're distracting." Paul got up and went to his room and lay down | 37 | If you're going to write this stuff go do it in your room you're distracting." |
36 | on his bed. | 38 | Paul got up and went to his room and lay down on his bed. |
37 | 39 | ||
38 | "If the gazelle went to the same place every year" he thought "did they know | 40 | "If the gazelle went to the same place every year" he thought "did they know the pattern too? |
39 | the pattern too? Or was it random for them, did they think each year 'This | 41 | Or was it random for them, did they think each year 'This seems like a good spot let's graze here' without knowing?" |
40 | seems like a good spot let's graze here' without knowing?" | ||
41 | 42 | ||
42 | He wrote _PATTERN = MEMORY_ in his notebook. | 43 | He wrote _PATTERN = MEMORY_ in his notebook. |