Lipton’s Journal/February 10, 1955/555: Difference between revisions

Line 4:

I found myself having the old fantasy of an electric pad on my brain which would carry my unspoken words into a tape recorder. And at that instant I realized that I was truly thinking without words, for what came immediately after—and the thoughts had been beautiful and very clear—was that to think of capturing the thought immediately aroused “words” in me, and though the words were good, and still nominally “thought” since I did not speak them, I could sense immediately that the thought had been chased away, and I was left only with word scraps.

So, I want to formulate it like this: the universe which is always within us delivers matter—that is, a part of what we have “taken” floats into consciousness; with words we seek to give it form, we are attempting to convert what we have taken—and so long as it is still “thought” we are still “taking” it—into an “Idea”—something we may give. So, ~~for~~, idea, word, are {{LJ:sup}}-things; matter, thoughts, feeling are from the {{LJ:er}}.

So, I want to formulate it like this: the universe which is always within us delivers matter—that is, a part of what we have “taken” floats into consciousness; with words we seek to give it form, we are attempting to convert what we have taken—and so long as it is still “thought” we are still “taking” it—into an “Idea”—something we may give. So, form, idea, word, are {{LJ:sup}}-things; matter, thoughts, feeling are from the {{LJ:er}}.

[[Category:February 10, 1955]]