Entry 414 — A New Term
I have a new term to announce: “knowlecular mind-flow.” I’m only announcing it because I have nothing else to write about here, and I’m trying again to do a daily entry. Although that will probably stop for a week or more fairly soon as I am seeing my hip doctor tomorrow to schedule hip replacement surgery. I figure if it doesn’t help me, I won’t be worse off than I now am (except if I become permanently, painfully crippled, which I deem highly unlikely). I won’t be worse off since I feel I’m at the point where my bad hip just barely keeps me from enjoying walking, running and tennis, so if the operation puts me a mile further from enjoying those things, so what. It’s like the difference between losing in the finals at Wimbledon 6-7, 6-7, 7-6, 7-6, 100-98, and losing in the first round, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0.
By mind-flow, by the way, I mean everything one is conscious of at a given moment. “Thinking” means too many different things, particularly (and mainly) unvoiced words. “Mentation” is better but tends, I think, to exclude feelings. The best thing about “mind-flow,” modified by “knowlecular,” is that I can define it. I need it right now for my discussion of rigidnikry in my Shakespeare authorship book.