Intuition

Tuesday brought a drive into Connemara with David, Alvar, and Mira, friends from the Salmon Weir. Fishing and lunch, and some sightseeing.

We left Mira in Clifden and returned to the hostel. I had just enough time to grab a bite before heading over to the university for the 7'oclock lecture on Intuition I had seen posters for a few days back. As it turned out, the lecture wasn't to begin until 8, so I moved to the library's media center to kill the time and grabbed a movie from the rack. Unhappy with the first choice, I found another. Then again, and finally settled on Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle (Two or Three Things I Know About Her), a Godard film about thoughts, language, objects, Vietnam, prostitution, and Paris. Half way through, I pressed Stop and returned to my regularly scheduled programming in the lecture hall.

Summary:
Intuition and coincidence are forms of foreknowledge brought about by our memory of the future. This future memory is a latent power due to our upbringing in an environment that stresses forward time -- the reason children exhibit more intuition, (their mind hasn't been forced down one path yet.)

The man had a few good ideas, and who knows if he was right about some things, but his methods and scientific means were very flimsy, his speech superficial, and he enjoyed mentioning the originality of his work. He was apt to say he could prove something, or that he would "speak of this later," without doing either. I left after an hour and returned to the library.

My friend Jamie was stationed at another television, and I approached him to say hello. Coincidentally, he was watching a different Godard film, (tho for other reasons.)

I fell back into Two or Three Things..., and the young child of the film said,

I dreamt I was walking all alone at the edge of a cliff. The path was only wide enough for one person. Suddenly I saw two twins walking towards me. I wondered how the would get past. Suddenly one of the twins went towards the other...and they bacame one person. And I realised that these two people were North and South Vietnam being reunited. What is language Mummy?