I would add to the discussion the idea that the term 'handicapped' implies
an accusation of luck. As a metaphor from horse-racing, it alleges that we
have been so endowed with exceptional qualities that it has been necessary
to balance things out. I'm not agreeing with this idea, just pointing it
out. If anything, it operates as a justification for treating us badly.
As for your memory thing, Larry, I can identify with that one. As someone
who has epileptic fits, I'm used to coming round and not knowing where I am
at all. But I'm also used to memory loss closer to what you describe,
finding that information I would expect to have just isn't there, either
because it's been burned out by the electric currents flowing through my
brain when I'm unconscious and jerking around on the pavement, or as a
result of all the sedative medication that I take to try to avoid said
unconsciousness, jerking etc.
That's been my life for several decades.
But what I've found has been that you can live with it. (I know that for a
lot of the people on this list this isn't massive news. think of this as
solidarity, not patronisation.) I remember that Paddy Masefield told me
how the fact that he was having to deal with all the confusion caused by ME
meant that he was the best prepared person at his Artscouncil meetings:
'So there was no doubt
that I was by far the best prepared
because I was the only person in the room
who really worried about my ability to prepare.'
( See:
http://disabilityarts.org.contentcurator.net/?location_id=124&item=146&itemoffset=16)
Or it's kind of like the difference between a clasical musician playing
every note on the score and a jazz musician who doesn't know what he's going
to be responding to in the next bar, but is ready to go with it as it comes.
'WherethefuckamI? Oh well, let's see what's round this corner.' In my
experience that's a pretty good way to go at things intellectually as well
as physically.
So hey - you forget it and I'll live it.
Best wishes
Allan Sutherland
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From: "Larry Arnold" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: Lucky?
> The answer is 42, as all things are connected synchronistically. What is,
> is
> because if it were not, it would not have been, for what is that but that
> that is and is but that :)
>
> The total perspective vortex whereby everything can be derived from a
> piece
> of fairy cake.
>
> Luck is a concept I suppose, a retrospective, and luck cannot be made,
> there
> is that which has a beneficial outcome, and that which does not (I am
> lucky
> that I live, but my unluckiness is that I do)
>
> In reality given a scarcity of resources everything is a lottery, and
> lotteries are about randomness, and luck is random not organised unless
> one
> can actually look into the total perspective vortex.
>
> Oh yeah and neither Douglas Adams or Jung has anything to do with it all,
> because I retrospectively synchonistically arrived at those simultaneous
> conclusions given the trajectories and vectors of the multiverse where
> time
> does not run in either reverse of forward directions but in an infinite
> number (what is number) of what cannot even be described as directions.
> Think on that one before the Texans beat the Hadronisti of Geneva to it.
>
> Ahh, I hear you say, Heironymo is talking Bosch again, but it is
> attribution, attribution should be your google word in the search for
> anything scholarly
>
> Am I lucky that on the bus journey to Leamington today, my cognitive
> capacity had so deteriorated that I could not recall the intermediate
> village between Leamington and Kenilworth except retrospectively, and to
> my
> dishonour there is a spot on the B4101 I have been through so many times,
> whose name I still cannot recall. I have had it. It worries me that some
> things are genuinely out of memory in a way that I can establish
> experimentally in that to see the name and find the solutions seems like
> it
> is the first time again, in that the original pathways are totally and
> utterly erased.
>
> Is that my future, or my past? Will I recall that spot on the B4101 (wow I
> have just recalled a lane along the route)
>
> My goodness off the point again, is it the golden glow of rotgut again
> clouding my consciousness as surely as urine is yellow.
>
> I think I detect a couple of variants in this (if you are still reading)
>
> There is the standard "trope" the socially conditioned, and conventional
> response of the "hard bitten" "gatekeeper" at a loss and grasping at what
> idioms the language and culture presents to give an answer. And secondly
> there is self attribution as to whether one is lucky or not, and so far as
> the second goes, there is some literature, but since I still don't know
> that
> location on the B4101 I can't give it to you off the cuff I am afraid.
>
> Larry
>
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>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Liz
>> Sent: 17 February 2009 13:37
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>> Subject: Lucky?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone have any pointers for info relating to a percieved
>> 'luckiness'
> on
>> the part of parents of disabled children and young people with regard to
> their
>> accessing services/resources etc.
>>
>> If I had a pound for every time I hear parents say either how 'lucky'
>> they
> are or
>> have been told by service providers or members of the public that they
>> are 'lucky' to be in receipt of something.......................
>>
>> Much appreciated.
>>
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