Opticks – so much geometry, visual logic, but Newton can stack ‘em high, I feel like I need to diagram his expositions using pins and thread on the wall.

Fig 8 (in the Dover edition) has my absolute favorite feature, that Newton began to draw his perspectival eye by drawing the usual brow at the proper angle for the exposition, when he might have realized, haha silly me, there’s something funny about using the eye with a drawing about the eyeball.  Newton, in his probably scratchy horsehair chair at perpetually the wrong temperature, making the baby blocks of Science, grazes with the edge of his poorly seamed shoe, he grazes the future enough to be caused to leave a space for it in the workings of his mind.  the gift of his mind above even the information he made as a precise precise artist explorer, patient,… biography please.

Machine slides me a straight up tequila from the other end of the empty-but-us daytime bar, ‘then when you read Opticks it was like Wilson hearing Sgt. Pepper’.  Truly, (I slam it back like the fire I’ve been trying to swallow all along) what could I possibly contribute?

Make       me         see

Next should come forty days of no writing and only making except they don’t separate like that, the work hammers at me, let me out, do everything, it’slikethiseverytime

 The work splits again, but maybe this time to come back together, it splits from being shadow work, the matrixes, to light work, the optics.

Stevie Ray Vaughan – the odd combination of baby-faced and fierce,  Vaughan is a mystic of the craft of guitar-playing, but Hendrix would have done it to anything he touched, anything his hand and mind lighted on.   This is not to say Vaughan isn’t as good as the goodest one, because Hendrix’s additional isn’t about good, it’s about shimmer.

I’m just going to ask the spectroscopy people for a word.  that’s all.  For how the lightfall gets talked about.  Plus it isn’t too late at all for Newton to give me the word, I’m only in book I, I haven’t even yet had the pleasure of reading about refrangement.

And Buckminster at same time.  Intensity.  He says, “really commit yourself absolutely to the complete deep end or it doesn’t work”  and I feel so much better.