Thinking about Bucharest. Sort of mentally walking around Sector 2, around the embassies behind Piata Romana, the second Bulandra stage. Saw a very interesting Measure there just before I left -- wrote a piece comparing it to the very peculiar one at the Sarajevo War Theatre.
Frustrating. With my credentials and experience, I should be able to easily put together a survival gig that would allow me to travel through the Balkans and think and read and write, but all of the doors seem barred. Being becalmed in the midtown gulag is much more frustrating when there's clearly a way to do things and find things that's just out of reach. Tantalus. The panopticon scratch existence was bad enough in itself (before I discovered the possibility of this nomading thing).
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Working through the Jena system Logic of H. I think I have it, after a few days of mulling the first bits. (There are no reliable Virgils for this mountain -- there's apparently one, but NYPL doesn't have it.)
Connection is simply Heraclitus and the Presocratics -- day and night are the same thing, as with all opposing terms. (There is no night without some day, etc.) Describing something with a term without an opposite leads to bad infinity. But otherwise, you find the meaning on the inside of both lines (visualize a sort of horizontal bar graph, with each end being one of the opposing terms. The meaning is on the inside of each line -- between.)
As for Relation, and I just got this moments ago -- it's two minds, not one. I was confused by the modality language into thinking that these were necessary/possible relations of substances, but it simply takes the infinite (which is the thing from part one, with all of the opposing terms cancelled out), and places it in relation to another mind. So what was infinite is now simply potential, and determination, and has existence only to the degree that the other mind cognizes it -- at the cost of its own possibility and determination (which it knows as the infinite).
Perhaps.