Comments on: Seeds of Change http://www.blakecharlton.com/2008/01/seeds-of-change/ Med Student, Novelist, Essayist Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:31:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: blakecharlton http://www.blakecharlton.com/2008/01/seeds-of-change/comment-page-1/#comment-108 blakecharlton Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:27:19 +0000 http://blakecharlton.wordpress.com/?p=124#comment-108 That's make an interesting story: a book where all the words accidentally left out of manuscripts end up. And I don't know about the strangeness of those minds that lack negative capability. So many of my classmates seem able to totally and completely zone in on the thalamus or B-cells or whatever. But then again, maybe I'm dealing w/ some selection bias. Maybe you're right. It is a peculiar state of mind; I just happen to be hanging out w/ peculiar (in that good way) ppl. That’s make an interesting story: a book where all the words accidentally left out of manuscripts end up.

And I don’t know about the strangeness of those minds that lack negative capability. So many of my classmates seem able to totally and completely zone in on the thalamus or B-cells or whatever. But then again, maybe I’m dealing w/ some selection bias. Maybe you’re right. It is a peculiar state of mind; I just happen to be hanging out w/ peculiar (in that good way) ppl.

]]> By: Jack Kincaid http://www.blakecharlton.com/2008/01/seeds-of-change/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Jack Kincaid Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:08:22 +0000 http://blakecharlton.wordpress.com/?p=124#comment-107 Correction: I say if the presence of negative capability is not a foreign intruder and is an intrinsic quality of one’s nature, a cog of the machine, a peculiar state of mind would be ONE that excludes it. - There's my most common error in manuscripts. Missing words. Where do they all go? Correction:

I say if the presence of negative capability is not a foreign intruder and is an intrinsic quality of one’s nature, a cog of the machine, a peculiar state of mind would be ONE that excludes it.

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There’s my most common error in manuscripts. Missing words.

Where do they all go?

]]> By: Jack Kincaid http://www.blakecharlton.com/2008/01/seeds-of-change/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Jack Kincaid Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:05:12 +0000 http://blakecharlton.wordpress.com/?p=124#comment-106 I say if the presence of negative capability is not a foreign intruder and is an intrinsic quality of one's nature, a cog of the machine, a peculiar state of mind would be that excludes it. Unless I'm "zoned out", I always feel as though as I should be doing something else, no matter what I'm doing. If I drop what I'm doing and then do that other thing, I'm then quite sure I should have stuck to the previous thing, even if returning to that thing will cast doubt on the matter :) It's a no-win. I say if the presence of negative capability is not a foreign intruder and is an intrinsic quality of one’s nature, a cog of the machine, a peculiar state of mind would be that excludes it.

Unless I’m “zoned out”, I always feel as though as I should be doing something else, no matter what I’m doing. If I drop what I’m doing and then do that other thing, I’m then quite sure I should have stuck to the previous thing, even if returning to that thing will cast doubt on the matter :)

It’s a no-win.

]]> By: blakecharlton http://www.blakecharlton.com/2008/01/seeds-of-change/comment-page-1/#comment-105 blakecharlton Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:51:00 +0000 http://blakecharlton.wordpress.com/?p=124#comment-105 Thank you, thank you, sir. And I agree entirely about the doing something else. Most of my twenties I spent feeling that I should have been doing something else. It's a peculiar state of mind. It requires perhaps...dare I say it...negative capability? Thank you, thank you, sir. And I agree entirely about the doing something else. Most of my twenties I spent feeling that I should have been doing something else. It’s a peculiar state of mind. It requires perhaps…dare I say it…negative capability?

]]> By: Jack Kincaid http://www.blakecharlton.com/2008/01/seeds-of-change/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Jack Kincaid Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:56:58 +0000 http://blakecharlton.wordpress.com/?p=124#comment-104 Congrats and I suspect most great things are accomplished when we should have been doing something else. Congrats and I suspect most great things are accomplished when we should have been doing something else.

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