30 march 2022

John Bjarne Grover

I have sometimes lived in hotels wherein exits were not always self-evident from a fourth or fifth floor and although fire security is normally good, it can happen that one sleeps better with a 'Klettergürt' (or is it 'Klettergurt') and rope available - for the possibility of walking down the wall if it should be needed. Although I have never tried such before, I decided to try and find the equipment or rather make it myself. I would need a solid band to run around the thighs and up to a belt (not a cigar belt!) which could be attached to a ring or 'carabine' ('snaplink', is that the word?) and finally from there to the climber's double ring for the rope to run through. I went to a shop for such things and bought the climber's equipment around 3 o'clock - the coins failed their return to my pocket and landed on the floor instead - and from there to another shop for the belt band. Having come home I decided to test it but the bookshelf I attached it to fell out and emptied its contents on the floor.

Added on 31 march 2022:

The question is this: Should I come with the 'DNA' or not? If I come with it, then it 'means' making another period, and attachment to history is not really good for humans, however tempting it could be. But it must be possible to understand without making another period? Can I bring the photo without another period being made? Of course that must be possible - it would be the art. But then why bring this photo? Has it any other function than coming in a period? I could bring the photo for showing which photo comes in the period today - without coming in the period today. That is interesting. Human society does not really want these periods - rather humans want to be freed of the periodicity in their spiritual longing. The photo itself it not so special. Can I come with the photo without making historic periodicity? But then why come with it? For understanding? A sort of tantra yoga? This is the problem of how the society wants and/or wants not to bring the understanding into historic periodicity. For understanding, and for thereby making the art possible, for keeping up the balance and making expression possible without falling into history, here it is:

On 9 november 2010 I observed a puzzling pattern in the bottom of my frying pan:

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