Showing posts with label Ayn Rand. Show all posts
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SDOF & John Galt

11:18 PM DawsonP


I was thinking that yesterday's write-up made me a bit amused to continue writing. Hence, I was actually waiting till the message appeared in my inbox just to start today's quota. So I had something in mind to write about, so here it goes.

I actually realized that I was really fed up with my writing habit. It wasn't having any truth till I re-realized it myself. This made me somehow manage my readings last night. I delicately managed two hours of bed reading on Atlas Shrugged before watching the movie in the spirit of John Galt. I was astonished by the screen adaptation of the novel. It was simply a marvelous endeavor. I couldn't easily capture the similarities and dissimilarities between the script and the novel text with respect to the dialogues. They were the same. But when I was in Esio Trot, the movie drastically changed as it contained a lot more incidents to make it cinematic rather than a 56-page children's story book. This made me realize the cinematic experience needs more tension than the fiction itself, but in the case of Atlas Shrugged, it was gloriously filled with suspense and super tension spread all over the pages, more than enough to capture in a single movie. I like both the techniques by which they have managed to Ying-Yang the media. Still, I am trying to figure out the case of John Galt, but it's related to the Real, of course, the Lacanian Real! We need more revisiting of Slavoj Zizek to find out the core of Ayn Rand. I love this kind of self-affirmation.

Where I have already started around the world on an eighty-day journey frozen? I was somewhere, and the caretaker was starting to look at the inside hideouts of the palace-like place where the protagonist lived. He was so curious about that giant house, but I was not able to continue into what the assistant got from his investigations while roaming around. Maybe today I will read some more on this; I can't say much at this moment. I have only eight days remaining until my Foundation Engineering examination. So I have to struggle with primary consolidation and elastic deformation more than literary investigations right now.
On the other hand, how should I continue the pursuit of my new job? I have to wait till the new employer calls me with the new visa; it is totally beyond my control. What I can do now is purchase more Dimicron from the pharmacy. Hopefully, Salim will reach me within the next couple of hours to drive me to Grand Mall.
Who is John Galt remains the same as when I stopped by yesterday. Nobody can stop the same line from the same line each day. The desire to find new methods of killing novel characters is a challenge to every writer, so my problem relies on the same grounds. How did I get into this mess?
I was looking for the true physical meaning of the SDOF, or Single Degree of Freedom, system.I still perceive it at a mathematical level of idealization, but the same as in the reality of the physical world. Can we say if someone has one deformation in any one direction under the physical restraints around him, it could be termed a "Single Degree of Freedom" situation? I never saw a single individual who could have been categorically placed as such. I always find people or personas with many freedoms of deformation. I capitalized some of those because I needed to emphasize the depth of those words.

Let me say, in an even more honest way, SDOF doesn't even exist in reality in mathematical foundations either! Is it true? I don't know. On Earth, where that much pure motion is hypothetically yes, but mathematically yes, no structure could have a single deformation under a single acceleration.So I must say that mathematical idealization is not far from the hypothetical stage, but in reality it is impossible to find such a dynamic system. But to be honest, do we need to encounter all the factors for a particular instance of dynamic behavior to predict the worst scenario? NO!

We are looking at the most significant phenomena only to predict the worst outcome of a dynamic system, or any system. Who cares about minor effects that make adding a single millimeter to a large deformation measured in meters?

I like this thinking of prioritizing the effects. I want to look at the big picture, in particular the phenomena, not the minor effects or their impacts.

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Who is John Galt?

8:47 AM DawsonP

I am bit in the mids of Atlas Shurgged, Esio Trot and Around the world in eighty days!; a combination that has nothing in common, apparently, but inside me its getting scrambled. I never know the author Roald Dahl till I accidentally exposed to the gaze of this tiny book packed in a huge shelf of Lulu supermarket at stationary section. I was just killing time to wait till the Ooredoo to open the counter to upgrade my internet connection to 150GB plan because the plan with 75GB had exceeded its limits due to increase of downloading movies during last month. It was the last Friday, hence for the prayers they had closed the counter, so I had to wait outside the mall.

Waiting, waiting, waiting, and waiting.


This made me to take a little walk through the mall, through shelves of various domestic products and huge number of various people. This walk had not any directive; of course it was just to kill some time, approximately three hours! Three hours time passage was never a small time bit at all.

First I went to the E-max shop for electronics and bought a flash drive of 8GB for the kid I would see in that evening in celebrating his eighth year. I wanted to gift him couple of books and some videos. Videos would have gone in the flash drive, so it was purchased. Then I have other nearly two hours to spend there in the mall, so I stepped towards the stationary section, without any clear idea of buying something for that kid. I already had purchased the books that I was about to gift him in the evening. I was roaming through some children books, all around scattered, disordered with Chetan Bhagat, and all the sizes of dictionaries from mini, pocket, concise and academic. So the punch line hit me at this particular dry vision on the shelf. I noticed this book with fairly unusual name, Esio Trot, and the author's name even more confusing at first glance, Roald Dahl, I was reluctantly forced to get the book in hand and open the first bits of pages. All of a sudden, a thunder flashed across my forehead giving a dash shot idea through, by seeing the couple of very last pages, OK, I will buy this book! I saw some writing hints by the author made me to count the book in mind to purchase, and of course the simple graphics spread all over the pages with childish accent in caricature wise. This made my life easy as it was nearly spent ninety minutes on the process and now I am ready to change my internet plan with Ooredoo!

Roald Dahl became one gigantic neuron evoking children literature into my three pounds of brain, actually it was two pounds before editing this for the second time!, and Googled to prevent the neuron becoming isolated in the grey matter around its emergence. I am happy with the choice I made at the supermarket. Literally neurons can emerge in such a way I depicted, but in reality it will not, never mind, this whole thing is literal at the end of the writing.

I never knew the protagonist of "Around the world in eighty days"; Phileas Fogg has anything common with me. Other than the isolation, being isolated with himself, or total withdrawal from the existing society, (but being a member of Reform Club), a fact common to Mr. Hoppy of Esio Trot, Phileas Fogg was the real character I can admire right by this moment to completely coinciding with my misery. Will it be true? We cannot acquire the truth that much easily, so investigation of the truth about that fact could be postponed infinitely. 

So the Atlas Shrugged emerged in the mean time, I don’t remember how it exactly pop out in mind, but now the two movie segments of Part 1 in 2011 and Part II in 2012 are packed in my hard disk to watch later, and in the mean time epub version is opened in my tab for continues reading. I have my hard-copy of Atlas Shrugged in my room at southern corner. Nonetheless, I had found the inter relationships of the works by Ayn Rand and Jules Verne and Roald Dahl, in my unconscious mind (who knows or who cares?), to be honest didn’t come into words yet, but hopefully within this life time I could be able to disgorge the best version of my truth about them. Particularly, truth has no versions!


In such truth what will be the role of Quentin Blake, the illustrator of Roald Dahl? Or the role of Jean Passepartout, the servant of Phileas Fogg? or the roles of some characters in Atlas Shrugged railway business? Or anything right now I am busy with? Earthquake engineering calculations which I am preparing heavily to answer the examination questions on seventh day of May 2015?  

Finally, SDOF or single degree of freedom systems? Who is John Galt?


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