Blink of an eye

Blink of an eye

That bygone flow arrives and

stitches together a series of nows..

Each now blinks and is gone

 new nows blink in their turn..

Each blink seems quick to say

 that we are blinded by time

that our viewpoint need change

that separation made time...

Our return to simple Awareness

heals and seals

beauty invades time...

A Farewell to Arms...Amazon review

5.0 out of 5 stars Charles Coon (polarityinplay.blogspot.com), March 30, 2014

By Charles R. Coon

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This review is from: A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition (Kindle Edition)

This is a most excellent Edition of a classic. The "value added" is the including of Forewards

by Patrick and Sean, Hemingway's sons, and the addition of the "Alternative Endings" and

"Beginnings" which Ernest Hemingway considered in his writing of Farewell. Patrick points to

what he considers the most important aspect of this Edition, the aspect of Erwin Schrodinger.

So, what does Patrick mean? Erwin Schrodinger was a physicist, famous for his Live/Dead

Cat mind experiment, in which the cat, before observation, is both dead and alive...a quick

course in quantum physics. This unknowing position is called a Superposition, and Farewell's

Catherine lived in that state until Hemingway could decide among some forty-seven alternative

endings...! In World War 1, Schrodinger served on the Austrian side, and Hemingway the Italian

side on this front of the war. Both died in 1961. Both received the Nobel Prize, Schrodinger for

physics, and Hemingway for literature. A quantum friendship..?

Endings

Endings

How he must have agonized..
Was his real Farewell ending 
a created Superposition..?
Until he visioned his ending
and his pen a choice recorded
Cathrine remained both dead and alive..
His Superposition offered forty-seven
choices shaded with life and death..
In many of forty-seven worlds
life and death were poised
in one waking moment:
A new spring morning beckoned
for life and an electric light
reminded him of her ending
the past night he had recorded..
The question for us in these
quantum musings:
Was his Superposition moment
 on that spring morning 
expressing his deeper and clearer
 truth..?  Or ours..?

"There are many more aspects of this

novel than are apparent at first glance.

This edition of A Farewell to Arms for the

first time makes available to the general

reader all the unpublished manuscript 

material that literary scholars have used

in their professional papers to define an

explain some of the less obvious aspects.

   For me, the most intriguing aspect is

Erwin Schrodinger." (bolding added)

-----Patrick Hemingway's Foreward in

Farewell to Arms

Who was Erwin Schrodinger..?

Both Schrodinger and Hemingway
served on the Austrian/Italian front
in WW1, Schrodinger on the
Austrian side, and Hemingway
on the Italian..
Both died in 1961..
Both received the 
Nobel prize:
Schrodinger in physics
Hemingway in literature..

Schrödinger's cat is a famous illustration of the principle in quantum theory of superposition, proposed by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935.  Here's Schrödinger's (theoretical) experiment: We place a living cat into a steel chamber, along with a device containing a vial of hydrocyanic acid. There is, in the chamber, a very small amount of hydrocyanic acid, a radioactive substance. If even a single atom of the substance decays during the test period, a relay mechanism will trip a hammer, which will, in turn, break the vial and kill the cat. The observer cannot know whether or not an atom of the substance has decayed, and consequently, cannot know whether the vial has been broken, the hydrocyanic acid released, and the cat killed. Since we cannot know, according to quantum law, the cat is both dead and alive, in what is called a superposition of states. It is only when we break open the box and learn the condition of the cat that the superposition is lost, and the cat becomes one or the other (dead or alive).

Farewell

Farewell

He bade Farewell to cruelty and pain

to war and lust and superpatriotism..

 Experienced love as seed was planted..

the seed germinated and bloomed in 

the happiness of his writing Spring..

Writing was his real home and there

each tragedy made his story whole..

Becoming the story he was a stream:

as writing paused he saw future bends

bends which shaped his happiness now..

In imagination his vision was clear

his perceptions were cleansed..

Tragedy lived as a virus lives

as appendage of a writing life-force..

Then when his writing light dimmed

the appendage gained strength

he sought for an end passing through

those forty-seven possibility doors..

Many doors marked a Moment

a vision of a Spring morning jolted

by electric remembering of death..

Finally his Farewell to simply walk

Walk away in the rain...

Forgetting

Forgetting

from Wordsworth

we learn that our birth

is but a sleep and a

forgetting..

Considering this moment

birthed just now brings

its separation and joy..

This birthing moment also

brings new forgetting

forgetting the before..

A purpose for life then

is remembering each 

new birth of forgetting..

Torus dynamics

  

Torus dynamics

It may be that
the entire universe
is shaped as a torus..
This simple doughnut
through its rotation
inside becomes out
and outside in..
Upon recognition 
it seems that all
reality is thus formed..
A center flow
channels upward
the curved energies
on each side..
In the channel
dwells a compressed
black hole which
becomes white..
White radiation then
curves with colors
and creation is 
laid down again...

Layers

Layers

Time distorts 

the reality of things..

One direction it claims

a forward path

as the only path..

But then perceiving

with eternal sense

time is illusion when

standing alone..

A new sense 

reveals time's twin

brings symmetry with

new found peace..

Reality reveals as

layer upon layer

canvas upon canvas

awaiting the last

brushstroke to

perceive the All...