[MD] until death do us part

[Ian Glendinning]

To John the enthusiast of group things, from Ian the enthusiast of
paired things.

I call this the three-body-problem - after Newton. Pairs work because
they are (sufficiently) predictable .... three or more, chaos.
Workable groups are made of pairs of pairs of pairs of ...

Jerry Garcia and Neal Cassady
Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead
Man and wife.
Man and mistress
Wife and lover
Child and sibling
Child and parent

Subjects and objects do have value.

Easier to chew on ?
Ian

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:20 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good Morning, Margaret, your quote coincides precisely with a little snippet
> I just read, that seems right on the point:
>
>>
>> Bruce Lee said in "The Tao of Jeet Kune Do":
>> "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
>>
>> And you sure can learn alot in a relationship whether or not it
>> involves the contract of marriage!
>>
>>
> The snippet I read was from the introduction to a book called "On the Bus",
> a retrospective of the great bus Further and the Merry Pranksters and about
> an episode where a relationship changed the perspective of one person
> contemplating individuality vs. community who claimed,  "Neal Cassady
> changed my life"
>
> "He was the mellow Neal, just a guy, just like us.  But there was a
> mysterious thing there too. I had the feeling that I was involved in a
> lesson...
>
> Neal represented a model to me of how far you could take it in an individual
> way, in the sense that you weren't going to have a work, you were going to
> be the work.  Work in real time, which is a lot like musician's work.
>
> I was oscillating at the time.  I had originally been an art student and was
> wavering between one-man-one-work or being involved in something that was
> dynamic and ongoing and didn't necessarily stay any one way-- and, also,
> something in which you weren't the only contributing factor.
>
> I decided to go with what was dynamic and with what more than one mind was
> involved with.
>
> The decision I came to was to be involved in a group thing, namely the
> Grateful Dead, and I'm still involved with it."
>
> Jerry Garcia
>
> So back to the original question Marsha had, about MoQ reasons for marriage,
> here's one to chew on.  Living by our own thinking is too static.
>
> John the enthusiast of "group things"
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