6/22

1 AM
find Gödel, Escher, Bach very brilliant — very close to my own way of thinking — at least in form
will its subject matter cause it to be dated

do I have to work only as a reaction to other works
God, Hofstadter, Joyce
a book of titles
ideas for video based on images picked up from TV — the use of quotes — found material
time for bed or another coffee —

waves of tiredness —
waves of ideas

influences — <i> need to separate self — a walk along the shore — rocks etc — dead seagull — tires — lots of junk — birds — never found a rock I didn’t like my own name I don’t like — chapter on names — free flow of associations
free flow of book

where does it begin
where does it end
where does all begin — when
infinity

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

<1/23/17 why not a golden eternal braid>

car roll — Caro — an thony a thorny —

an on off — free flow — degeneration — a few good lines a lot of bad — difficult to separate — breaks up the structure

waves of tiredness
waves of energy


how long could I go on with this — does it belong in these notes or in the book notes — how will they weave together
sleep too much — the eternal recurrence
force myself awake — ache in the eyes <now also>
Joyce, Hofstadter ... — Lawrence — free association came to mind — doesn’t fit — my brother — thinking earlier he should like the book (Gödel ...) —
the book — my book — the unwritten
pages and pages of unwritten book — randomization — theoretical art non-art — the art gallery — found art — collection of book pages
beautification of the room — development of the house
found objects — found images — Visionary Film — footnote — a book I have been reading — Brakhage and the found image etc — the use of bits of film from various sources — don’t like his films that much but reading about them gave me some ideas — analogy of using bits of leader material and the switching on and off of the video camera
the infernal golden braid

jun 1980
waves of tiredness

waves of ideas

free flow of associations
free flow of book

where does it begin
where does it end
where does all begin
when
infinity

waves of energy

waves of tiredness
6/80-7
3/21/19
write something on hofstadter — i haven’t read the later books and don’t want to reread the first
9/3/21 this section should be kept and also rewritten
3/21/19
i need to separate myself from the things i’ve read — don’t feel that way now — everyone is composed of many different readings
3/21/19 metatext on the free flow ‘experiments’ should go before this note or with it
3/21/19 some deletions needed