14 days

Tonight I will begin with a message I sent to Catherine around this time, one year ago when I was studying Discordianism and Absurdism. I am beginning to feel that my devised piece should further explore the roots of these themes.

On madness and creativity.

A quote comes to mind I referenced in my essay on Absurdism:

“Rationalist thought, like language, only deals with the superficial aspects of things. Nonsense, on the other hand, opens up a glimpse of the infinite.” --Dr. Jan Culik

The French philosopher Albert Camus was all about defining the human condition as meaningless. He proposed a solution to all our silly attempts to understand ourselves and the universe by arguing that we must resign ourselves to recognising that a fully satisfying rational explanation of the universe is beyond our reach.

So assuming that's true. Assuming we can't make sense of the unvierse, what is the universe to us? It's nonsensical. If we can't understand it then it may as well be random bajungly-wub.

Which brings me to Discordians! Who take this knowledge and use it to further learn from the universe by surrounding themselves in utter chaotic madness. It's not simply from being foolish though. It's another approach to discovering truth. Some people try to discover truth by going to university and learning a set curriculum, but Discordians point out a fatal flaw in such ventures: if the world really is, to our way of perceiving it, completely chaotic, then you could learn "All there is to know" about any subject without learning more than the superficial scrapings.

My point is, that the insane, the Discordians, whoever else doesn't really think "level headedly" will find themselves capable of ideas and thoughts that others will never have due to the hinderence of what Discordians call "the illusion of order".

Of course the counter argument is that these mad people will seldom be understood, and not because they're so special and talented, but because there's nothing there to understand.

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I feel in that I made some interesting points. My opinions now have (thankfully) changed somewhat but I agree with much of what was said, at least I understand it... Ironically.

So it seems the plan is to write the play in discord. Now how do I go about this...

To summarise today's progress, I purchased about half of the materials for my costume: wood, duct tape, squeeze bag, velcro, goggles. I still need pants, shirt, megaphone... maybe paint. I should endeavour to build the stilts on Thursday as I will be occupied all of tomorrow with guitar lessons and band practise. I did not work on Hamlet at all today...

I think I will read through the Principia Discordia once more... Maybe Albert Camus... Myth of Sisyphus. See if I can find something with which to respond to.

Ah! Today I had the idea of using Beckett's Act Without Words as inspiration. I will read that, and the Principia tomorrow evening if possible.