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SDPC Introduction Valerie metaphor grief hospital death

Considering Rob’s and my relationship — the challenges, joys, hopes, strains and our own personality characteristics. Maybe the whole thing is — reacting to ourselves individually and to the other person — experiencing our own personal reactions and then reacting to them — then reacting to the other person who experiences the same processes in himself. We … creatively keep altering ourselves and our mates. We can’t be ‘perfect’ at the start because the processes include changing events. There’s bound to be some lopsidedness to our growth, as we form psychological ‘art’ throughout our entire lives — or learn to live … artistically. Each person in such a relationship changes constantly in relationship to himself and the other person, until — hopefully? — by death you’ve used the characteristics of your own personality the best you can. Merged them with your mate’s so that between the two of you, you get a new creative mixture in a kind of psychological multiplication … You try different ways of using your own traits, etc.

SDPC Part One: Chapter 3 cobbler Sarah village wires bullets

[...] You cannot see through, but the two planes move through each other constantly.

Again, if you will consider our maze of wires, I will ask you to imagine them filling up everything that is, with your plane and my plane like two small birds nests in the netlike fabric of some gigantic tree … Consider, for example, that these wires are also mobile, constantly trembling and also alive, in that they not only carry the stuff of the universe but are themselves projections of this stuff, and you will see how difficult it is to explain. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 6 tree bark Malba Rob midplane

[...] Without the conscious mind of man it nevertheless retains this inner consciousness of all its parts, above and below the ground, and manipulates them constantly.

[...] It maintains constant awareness and the ability to adjust itself in two completely different worlds, so to speakone in which it meets little resistance in growing upward and one composed of much heavier elements into which it must grow downward. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 7 camouflage Malba instruments Decatur senses

The inner senses have an immediate, constant knowledge of the body in a way that the outer senses do not. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 11 Cunningham Miss starlings killing Rah

[...] Miss Cunningham’s apartment door became a stimulus to my constant questions. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 10 Mark Rob furniture arrangements bookcases

The entity itself does not have to keep constant track of its personalities because each one possesses an inner self-conscious part that knows its origin. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 5 enzymes plane saucers Rob mental

Therefore, these wires, continuing our analogy, will grow thick or thin, or change color completely, like some chameleon-like animal constantly camouflaging its true appearance by taking on the outward manifestations of each neighboring forest territory. [...]