At a delicate point one says, "simply be yourself and project hard into the work and tell everything else to go to hell."

What was the beginning? The myth born out of terror and the modern world. Despair out of a loveless, poetless, terrible world.

Then moving through books, persons, cities, ideas, and diversions to a clearing.

In the clearing was fundament, in the clearing was God- the fulfillment of what had been thwarted at the beginning

It ends upwardly, a prong into the future.

The weapon was archetypal in this sense: it demonstrated the ease in destroying in a second what had been so difficult to build up over long stretches of time. That people and groups who have played out this side of the archetype are not trustworthy, whether they have explosives or theories.

The spacecraft was archetypal in this sense: It demonstrated the ability to leave the hide-bound and suddenly penetrate the infinitude of the universe which both mocks humans but empowers them as well to "have patience, build from the pressures of heat and gravity"

The computer was central to the operation of both.

In society it was lengthening out the phases of development so that one could absorb the complexity and not become cynical to liberal democracy. It was the art of not projecting into people but letting them manifest whoever they were.

The first influence is not necessarily the last influence. The taking on and dropping off influences is one of the keys to growth and development.

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