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An Open Work in 28 Parts

Doyle's Operaperta -- An Operetta, An Open Work in 28 Parts

by Bobby Matherne

Copyright ©2000by 21st Century Education, Inc.

Ala D'oyly Carte

Doyle, I've been dreadfully mistaken,

and you know I have some dread doyles, up until now.

Doyle, what I'm trying to say is that

you've created a new reality,
not discovered an old one.

D'oyle, you've destroyed the old menu,

so one can create exciting
new possibilities in one's life,
off the menu
on one's own from now on.

Ala D'oyly Carte: Written on December 18, 1996 about 2:30 pm, in the Timberlane Screening Room. The four monitors were on, but I was too busy writing to notice what was playing when I started.

The name for this series of poems is Doyles Operaperta, pronounced op-uh'-rah-pert'-uh, which means in Italian, open work (opera aperta). It is the Italian name of a book by Umberto Eco. This is an operaperta in two voices: the Speaker and the "Other". The Speaker's voice is absent quotations, and the Other's voice is always enclosed in quotations.

Ambiguities: D'oyly Carte refers to the name of the person, Richard D'Oyly Carte who staged the Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas so brilliantly in London beginning with The Sorcerer (1877) and The Pirates of Penzance (1879).

D'oyly Carte (phono-logical ambiguity) also refers to Doyle P. Henderson the aerospace engineer who created a new way of understanding emotions that lead to the concept of panacean shots in the last days of the previous century.

Ala Carte means on the menu, but priced separately from the fancy combined dinners with everything included. Emotions are like the fancy combined dinners and doyles are like the separate items listed ala carte you can choose only the components of any emotion you would like to keep and take a panacean shot for the components you want to drop. [See poem "Dropping Doyles" in my work in progress Yes, and Even More.]

This Is A Small Work

What you have done, D'oyly,

is no small work,
but we'll call it a small work.

This Is A Small Work: Written on December 18, 1996 at 2:40 pm, in the Timberlane Screening Room. The four monitors were on, but I was too busy writing to notice what was playing when I started. A T2C production.

Note: Opera is the Latin word for work, so operetta, opera with the diminutive form etta means a small work. Doyle Henderson, whom I call D'oyly or D'oyle at various places in this small work, did no small work when he created panacean shots. Have you had yours yet?

Like Taming of the Shrew?

Like I tamed the shrew in me.
Like I tamed the strongest shrew

I knew, the shrew you saw in me,
NAY, HEARD in me
in the STRIDENT tone in my shriek
in my voice, up until now.

Until Doyle's operetta, his small work,

set me straight from now on.
"I haven't heard of D'oyle's Operetta, up until now."
You're hearing part of it, now.
"I haven't heard D'oyle's Operetta, up until now."
You didn't know?
"Yes, I've been starring in it,
and didn't know it, up until now!"
Yes, and even more.
"Is this in Yes, and Even More, too?"
Yes, and even more,
from now on.

Like Taming of the Shrew?: Written on December 18, 1996 about 2:50 pm, in the Timberlane Screening Room. The four monitors were on, and The Taming of the Shrew came on. It inspired the title and subject of this poem, but I didn't watch the movie after it started, I was too busy writing. A T2C production.

Big Is Good

"If you make this big enough,

it'll work in a great way."
Yes, and even more.
"That'll make it a big work, an opera!"
Yes, and even more.
"Even more?"
Yes, it'll be an operetta.
"Yes, if you make it big enough,
it'll become a small work." Yes, a small work, a production of one,
like Doyle's small work.
"Yes, and Even More."

Big Is Good: Written on December 18, 1996 about 2:53 pm, in the Timberlane Screening Room. The four monitors were on, and The Taming of the Shrew had just come on. Note: This poem deals with the meaning of small and big, operetta and opera. It also deals with other unspecified ambiguities that are left for the reader to ferret out.

A work done by just one person can be called a small work, no matter how big its impact on the world. Doyle's panacean shot is a small work, and similar to Gregor Mendel's small work with smooth and wrinkled peas (the founding of genetics), Doyle's small work has been left neglected in the trash bins of the educated academic nabobs who received copies and "didn't have the time to investigate it".

Doyle has created the emotional equivalent of Mendel work on the inheritance of physical traits. Doyle P. Henderson discovered that certain primitive body states are stored by the body by age 5 and are re-called to comprise the entire gamut of human emotions thereafter. Like genes, which Mendel called these carriers of physical traits, doyles are the carrier of emotional traits.

Emotions consist of combinations of contextual memory (people, places, and things), conceptual memory (ideas), and doylic memory (stored primitive body states). Once one understands how doyles are stored before the doyle transition (about age five), one can trace down a specific doyle and remove its contribution to every emotion one experiences thereafter. Maybe the new field, which has no name, will be called "doyletics" to point out its similarity with the field of genetics that Gregor Mendel founded, working alone on his small work.

A Production of One

"Doyle's is a production of one."
Yes, his theory of how doyles are generated

and stored is his own production.
"Doyle's is a production of one."
Yes, one produces and stores doyles inside oneself.
"Doyles is a production of one."
Yes, the name doyles was suggested by the author.
"Together they make a great team."
Together they make 21st Century Education, Inc.
"Think of the future . . ."

A Production of One: Written on December 18, 1996 about 2:56 pm, in the Timberlane Screening Room. Note: This poem talks about three layers of "doyles":

1) Doyle's: refers to the originator of the Doyletics Theory himself, Doyle P. Henderson.
2) Doyles: without the apostrophe, doyles refers to the production, storage, and recall of doyles, the primitive body states.
3) Doyles: In italics, doyles refers to the name given to the primitive body states by Bobby Matherne, first founder of 21st Century Education, Inc.

The "making of 21st Century Education" refers to the popularization of Doyle Henderson's theory undertaken as a production of 21st Century Education involving the four members of the advisory board, Bobby Matherne, Brian Kelley, Del Matherne, and Doyle Henderson.

This poem is part of a long range business plan that the author is formulating herein.

Meta-Log I

"Now you're doing business proposals

as poems."
Yes, and even more.
"Even more?"
Yes, I'm communicating with my advisory board,
the Board of Directors.
"Yes, and even more."

Meta-log I: Written on December 18, 1996 about 2:58 pm, in the Timberlane Screening Room. Note: The title is a made-up word meant to suggest "metalogue" as used by Gregory Bateson in his classic book, Steps To An Ecology of Mind. Here is the definition he gives on page 1:

A metalogue is a conversation about some problematic subject. This conversation should be such that not only do the participants discuss the problem but the structure of the conversation as a whole is also relevant to the same subject.

As defined by Bateson his metalogues consisted of content and process wrapped into a conversation. In the context of Yes, and Even More a meta-log is a meta-comment (comment about) on the structure of the serial poems as the poem progresses during its individual parts. An example of the ultimate meta-log is a sentence that loops itself, such found in The Dream of Reality by Lynn Segal [See ARJ hardback]:

This sentence contains _______ letters.

The sentence has several correct versions. The reader might want to try to find a couple of them as an exercise in self-referentiality. Similarly the Meta-Logs that interlace this serial poem are variously components of the poem and comments about the poem. Just as NOTES are mostly comments about poem, and sometimes contain poems.

Meta-Log II

Yes, I'm communicating with the whole world.
"That's no small work."
Yes, and even more.

"Even more?"
Yes, it must be an open work.
"Open work? Like wrought iron open work?"
Yes, the kind we have at home,
an open work,
an open opera,
an opera aperta!

Meta-log II: Written on December 18, 1996 about 3:05 pm, in the Timberlane Living Room. I'd moved to Del's easy chair after pulling Umberto Eco book Open Work off the Review Shelf of the Timberlane Library.

I wanted to verify its original name was Opera Aperta in Italian, it was. Yes, and Even More will be an open work in the sense of Eco's definition of "open work". Here is what David Robey says about Eco's Open Work:

Opera aperta thus proposes an equation between the degree of openness, the degree of information, the degree of ambiguity, and the degree of contravention of conventions in a work, an equation which serves to distinguish traditional and modern art from one another, but which does not in itself tell us anything about the distinction between art and nonart or good art and bad, since the contravention of conventions and the consequent proliferation of possibilities of interpretation are not in themselves a guarantee of artistic value.

To help clear your palate, here's Eco's view of his duty as an intellectual:

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Certainly one cannot "make truth laugh" unless one can let go of the potentially strong doyles that constellate themselves about the concept truth, up until now. And certainly the same can be said for reality. When we let go of trying to discover reality, we find a new freedom that accompanies creating a new reality. To discover reality is to reinforce the old version of reality, be that reality in traditional or modern art, in science, or in psychological theories of emotional development and control.

This digression helps to explain the first poem in this serial poem, Ala Doyly Carte, which says to Doyle Henderson that he's not discovered the reality of emotions, but has created a new reality.

When one creates a new reality, one is in the lonely position that modern artists find themselves in. People look to buy based on conventional specifications acquired from others, and the true artists destroy the conventional specifications and create their own. As this author has written elsewhere "Art is the process of destruction." Unless some destruction of the public's expectations and specifications occurs, no true art is being done.

Note2: Yes, and Even More will be an opera aperta in the form of poems, actually peoms, that have identifiable voices and lend themselves to performance, either by recitation or singing. This serial poem Doyles Operaperta is designed in parts for singing, especially the parts where there is a trifold repetition of phrases.

Note3: The operaperta concept was created by the author of this book at 3:07 pm while I was in the other room doing some typing. It's an open work opera of introspection and change, of self conversations and conversations with others.

No Mean Business

"Do you listen to music at home?"
Not while I work.
"I see you mean business."

Yes, and even more.
"Even more?"

Yes, I just created a couple of shorthand marks so I don't lose my train of thought like I just did.
"Are they easy to make?"
Yes, I only need them when I doing the original writing. I won't need them in finished poems from now on.
"I guessed you were going to say that a mean business creates bad doyles."
Yes, and what is a bad doyle?
"One I don't like?"
Yes, and even more.
"Even more?" Yes, bad doyles are an endangered species
from now on. "There'll soon be no more mean businesses
from now on."

No Mean Business: Written on December 18, 1996 about 3:15 pm, in the Timberlane Living Room. I'd moved to Del's easy chair after pulling Umberto Eco book Open Work off the Review Shelf of the Timberlane Library.

Meta-Log III

"You're coding programs

to play inside of people
in your poems."
Yes, and even more.
"Even more?"
Yes, I don't know whether I listen to music
at work or not.
"You don't know?"
Yes, I just learned that I can destroy an old reality
with a Panacean™ shot.
"Panacean™ shot? What's that?
Some new psychotropic drug?"
You mean, you never got your shots!?

Meta-log III: Written on December 18, 1996 about 3:30 pm, in the Timberlane Living Room in Del's easy chair.

Note: (Ambiguity) "You mean, you never got your shots." can be taken to mean, "Never having gotten your panacean shots, you are a mean person, up until now." Or it could mean, "You are trying to tell me that, knowing that PANACEA! exists you still have not found time to get your shots!" Yes, all this, and of course, even more. There's allways even more.

Note2: Author introduces the concept of "panacean shots" here and marks the idea with a trademark sign for Doyle's sake. [Aside: most of the care we take with anything is for some doyles' sake. Some good doyle that we would like to return often.] The word panacean sounds so much like penicillin that it begs for a chance at existence in the 21st century.

Note3: Panacean™ shots are not physical injections to ward off bad germs that cause physical illnesses, but psychic injections to ward off bad doyles that cause psychic flare-ups. A psychic flare-up is any variety of emotional disturbance or any discomfort of which one would gladly say, "I'd be happy if this feeling never returned to me, and this is the last time I want to think of it."

A Shot In The Dark

"Yes, I'm in the dark about Panacean™ shots."
Yes, and even more.

"Even more?"
Yes, you're in the dark about yourself, up until now.
"Up until now?"
Yes, up until Panacean™ shots.
"That makes me very angry!"
Yes, that's a good place to start.
"With my anger?"
Yes -- with your anger you'll go far.
"Go far?"
Yes, there's allways away.
"There's always a way?"
Yes, and even more.

A Shot In The Dark: Written on December 18, 1996 about 3:30 pm, in the Timberlane Living Room in Del's easy chair.

Note: I just E-mailed Doyle Henderson the other day saying that I was bubbling over with creative ideas about his program. And here I am writing a note for the Notewriter (who's in the Other Room).

Note2: About 3:31. Notewriter Back: I can't explain what just happened. You'll have to read the entire book cover to cover several times. It's the ultimate innoculation against coercion. Anyone who tries to coerce the author will have read his work several times to know even how to coerce him and by then they wouldn't want to try because they will have done their last coercion.

From now on, it's everyone on one's own.

You're on Your Own

"I want to be on my own."
Yes, and even more.

"Even more?"
Yes, everyone can be
on one's own.
"I like the sound of that,
on one's own,
on one's own,
on one's own."
Yes, from now one,
on one's own.
"There'll be a big group of us
doing it."
Yes, and you will all be doing it
on your own.
"I'll be -- I like the sound of that,
on my own,
on my own,
on my own,
I'll be doing it on my own."

You're On Your Own: Written on December 18, 1996 at 3:38 pm, in Del's easy chair in the Timberlane Living Room.

Note: This peom introduces the concept that being with someone else and being on one's own is compatible, and even desirable.

Note 2: [January 29, 1997 addition]Getting a Panaceantm shot is something that is best done on one's own because then it can be done anytime a bad doyle has you in its thrall. And then it's "Bye, bye, doyle, you'll just be a memory, a pleasant memory from now on."

Note 3: [January 29, 1997 addition]Even bad doyles turn into pleasant memories when a trace & erase has been done effectively. The unwanted physical body states (doyles) are converted into a conceptual memory -- a pleasant memory is possible because you know the feelings previously caused by the bad doyle are gone forever.

Meta-Log IV

"You're now writing peoms

using declensions and conjugations."
Yes, and from now on,
even more.
"From now on, even more,
I like the sound of that."
Oh, go ahead and really do it.
"I like the sound of that
from now on, even more
from now on, even more
from now on, even more."
Yes, and from now on,
own your own.

Meta-log IV: Written on December 18, 1996 about 3:40 pm, in the Timberlane Living Room in Del's easy chair.

Own Your Own

"I'm on my own

since I met you."
Yes, you're the one
I tell things to.
"I like the sound of that."
I'm on my own
since I met you.
"Yes, you're the one
I tell things to."
"Looks like we both
own our own."
‘Would you like to own your own
from now on?'

Own Your Own: Written on December 18, 1996 at 3:55 pm, at the Timberlane Bar.

Note: The theme of this peom is that being alone and being with someone is compatible. Alone in the sense of being all-one means being all at one, on your own, whether in the company of someone else or not. To "own your own" is to become content to be alone and all at one, whether someone else is present or not. So, from now on, own your own.

Note 2: [January 29, 1997 addition] This peom also refers to doing doyle tracing & erasing to remove any unwanted bad doyles. With Doyle Henderson's Panacea! one can truly own their own from now on.

From Now On, Own Your Own

"From now on, I will own my own."
Yes, the best way to be,

to own one's own.
"I'll be -- own my own --
from now, own my own,
from now, own my own,
from now, own my own.
I like the sound of that."
Yes, and even more.

From Now On, Own Your Own: Written on December 18, 1996 at 3:57 pm, at the Timberlane Bar.

Note: This poem begins at the end of the previous poem's first Note and extends the concept of doing things on one's own. Own your own way of doing things, and do them on your own from now on, it suggests.

Five Years Fore The Mast

"It was five years ‘fore dem ast

you to read your stuff out loud,
‘fore God and everybody."
Yes, for God and everybody, five years,
up until now,
up until now,
up until now,
I take it, you like the sound of that?
"Yes, and even more."

From Now On, Own Your Own: Written on December 18, 1996 at 3:57 pm, at the T-Bar. Le Petit Bar, the little bar, where the little work gets performed little enough. The title comes from the name of a book, Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Dana, Jr.

The author has noticed that it takes a little time, usually five years, before he feels like reading his poems aloud to others.

Little Work

"Is this a little work?"
Yes, and even more.

"Even more?"
Yes, it's a leader work.
"A liter work?"
Yes, not a half-pint.
"A half-pint can't be a liter."
Yes, and even more.
"Even more?"
Yes, a half-pint can be a leader
of the free world.
"Yes, and even more?"
Yes, a little work can be
the leader of the free world.

Little Work: Written on December 18, 1996 at 4:10 pm, at the T-Bar.

Note: The subject returns to operetta or "little work" with ambiguities with little, liter, and leader. It is left as an exercise to the reader to discover who is the "half-pint who can be the leader of the free world". The "little work" refers to Doyle P. Henderson's work on the founding of the science of "doyletics", which will lead people into their individual worlds of freedom from the throes of bad feelings of all kinds. He is no "half-pint", but a real leader in improving everyone's emotional ecology from now on.

Its'a No Work At All

"How much work

to turn this peom into
an operetta?"
It's a little work,
an opera-etta.
"How much work
to turn this peom into
an operaperta?"
Its'a no work at all.

Its'a No Work At All: Written on December 18, 1996 at 4:14 pm, at the T-Bar.

Note: The subject turns on operetta or "little work" again. The first question is answered by the definition of operetta as "a little work". The second question is answered as being superfluous, requiring no work at all, since the question is asked inside of the operaperta.

Note 2: [January 29, 1997 addition] Read the last line with an Italian accent and tempo to emphasize that operaperta is composed of two Italian words, opera and aperta, which mean work and open.

Retirement

"How are you enjoying your retirement?"
Its'a no work at all.
"Enjoying your retirement comes easy to you?"
Its'a no work at all,

I'ma too busy to even think about it.
"How do you keep busy?"
Its'a no work at all,
Alla my days are open,
Its'a no work at all,
Alla my days are open,
Its'a no work at all,
Alla my days are open.
"I like the sound of that."
Yes, and even more.
Its'a No Work At All.

Retirement: Written on December 18, 1996 at 4:17 pm, at the T-Bar.

The subject is retirement and again the author doesn't answer the question as to how he is spending his time during retirement, but instead says that enjoying retirement is no work at all. Of course, the ambiguity of retirement as being a period of "no work at all" is present and utilized for effect. The author was heard to say that, "You know you're retired when you lose track of your watch once a month."

Then we discover that he's too busy to even think about enjoying retirement, and that all his days are open. This is a teaser to read the next peom, apparently.

All My Days Are Open

"Do you have an open day?"
All my days are open.
"I have an opening on Thursday."
I have an opening every day.
"See you on Thursday?"
No, see, I have an open day

scheduled for Thursday.
"How about Friday?"
Same thing.
"How about Saturday?"
Sam'T'ing.

All My Days Are Open: Written on December 18, 1996 at 4:23 pm, at the T-Bar.

Note: The subject is open days. The questioner is a business person trying to make an appointment with the author and wants to know what day would be "open" or available to meet. The author is talking about the quality of his days, ones that are open to every new experience, which requires him to be alone, that is, "all-one". Thus his open days are NOT available for meeting with other people.

When the author gets to Saturday, he changes from "same thing" to "Sam'T'ing" which hints at a name for Saturday in German and French as "Sam's Day". In German, it's Samstag and in French it's Samedi. So Saturday is the day for Sam's Thing, whatever that is.

Sam's Day

"Sam T'ing. What's that?"

Sam' T'ing.
"Yes, Sam' T'ing. Who's that?"
Sam's Thing is to have an open day
every day.
"Open day, every day?"
Yes, and even more.
"Even more?"
Yes, and he likes to have it
on his own.
"And what about me?"
Yes, he would like you to have it
on your own.
"And what about everyone else?"
Yes, he would like everyone else to have it
on one's own,
to own one's own from now on,
to own one's own from now on,
to own one's own from now on,
I like the sound of that.
"Yes, all of us own one's own,
all of us own one's own,
all of us own one's own,
I like the sound of that."
‘Yes, we all own our own together
from now on.'

All My Days Are Open: Written on December 18, 1996 at 4:23 pm, at the T-Bar.

Note: The subject has returned to "owning one's own" and doing it with everyone at the same time, the same thing (Sam' T'ing).

We're All in this Thing Together

We're All in this Thing Together
"What thing?"

Same thing, day after day, same thing,
we're all in this thing together.
"Guess that makes us kin?"
Guess you're right.
"Thanks."
No thanks necessary,
you're the one that's doing it right.
"I'm doing it right?"
Yes, if you guess, you're right.
"Guess you're right!"
I like the sound of that!

We're All in this Thing Together: Written on December 18, 1996 at 4:35 pm, at the T-Bar.

Note: The subject is monotony (same thing, day after day) and guessing. The author tells the story that about a year ago, three months after he had retired, on a Thursday afternoon about 3 pm he became bored. About an hour later it went away and never returned. We all have the same number of hours and one of the secrets to enjoying any kind of life is to enjoy every minute of what you're doing.

Note 2: On guessing: when we guess, we give our intuition rein to return an answer to us that we would not be able to come up with consciously. More often than not, if you use your first guess, it will be right. If you consciously override your first guess (wrongly called "second-guessing one's self"), you will choose the input from your conscious mind and it will likely be wrong. Rightly understood, guessing is a spiritual act of freedom, and give us access to the center of our being.

Shall We Gather At The Center?

"Where did you just come from?"
The Center, I guess.
"Where are you going?"
The Center, I guess.
"Can I come along to the Center?"
Yes, and even more
. "Even more?"
Yes, I guess you can go to your Center.
"Did you forget something in your Center?"
Yes, my problem, I guess.
"Can you help me find my problem?"
I guess, when did you last encounter your problem?
"Oh, about five years ago."
And before that?
"Oh, about eight years ago."
And before that . . . and before that?
"Oh, about five years old."
And also at four years old?
"Yes, and even more."
And at three years old?
"Yes, and even more."
And at two years old?
"Uh-huh."
And at one year old?
"Yes."
And at birth?
"Surely you're joking, Mr. Matherne!"
By the very word Doyle,
I assure you I'm joking
all the way down.
"Oops, it went away when I laughed."
That's no joke.
"I think I left my problem at the Center."
Good place for it.

Shall We Gather At The Center?: Written on December 18, 1996 at 4:37 pm, at the T-Bar.

Note: Title comes from old spiritual, Shall We Gather at the River? The line "Surely you're joking, Mr. Matherne" comes from the title of a book by Richard Feynman: "Surely you're Joking, Mr. Feynman".

[found scribbled in margin of froem - a froem is the original of a poem saved to be framed later, an idea the author got at the Center] "Hey T-Bob! I'll have a G. J. over. That's Gentleman Jack for you." That G. J.'s a Good Joe. "Good for me and good for you."

The subject of this peom is tracing and erasing of doyles, those primitive body states that comprise what people know as emotions. Named after Doyle P. Henderson, the creator of the theory and founder of the field of doyletics. Doyletics is the science of the inheritance and transmission of doyles between parents and children, and all the members of a culture.

In doyletics we learn that doyles are created and stored in the body until the memory transition occurs about the age five. After that time the brain becomes capable of storing memories in conceptual form, and it soon stops storing memories as primitive body states. After the transition, memories are stored as a combination of conceptual memories and links to stored doyles.

Emotions occur when some event in the internal or external world of a person triggers a dolyic memory. The doyle is called up and fills the body with the remembered primitive body states exactly as they were stored before the memory transition.

What Henderson did with his theory was to create a software program, PANACEA!, which allows a person to trace an unpleasant doyle to its origin and erase its effect forever. This peom takes the reader to the Center (a relaxed state) and permits them, at their own pace, to recover memories while holding onto their problem (unpleasant primitive body state). If the reader does this process with a sense of acceptance and searching, a willingness to allow whatever comes up to do so while remaining relaxed, the reader will soon reach a year before 5 or so where the problem will dissolve naturally.

You may or may not notice anything else happening, but you will be aware that the state, the one that you had been holding or that had been holding you, has disappeared.

When you reach that point, you will have done a complete trace and erase of an unwanted doyle.

This is a very simplified outline of Henderson's theory and his software, done with his permission. To learn how to accomplish what is hinted at in this peom, one must study Henderson's book and work with his software on a computer.

To receive the complete book and software on PANACEA!, write to Scientific Specialists, P. O. 385, Fawnskin, California, 92333-9989.

[July 23, 2000 Addition]: the science of doyletics now has a website and a simplified trace process that the author found at the Center.

Note 2 [January 29, 1997 Addition]:

"Now you're putting commercials inside of Notes!"
Yes, and Even More is a commercial endeavor.
"My head is spinning."
Have you tried tracing that doyle?
[End of Note 2]

The Big Question

"What was the question?"
You asked me if I could help you

find your problem.
"And you helped me to find
my problem was in my center."
Yes, and even more.
"Even more?"
Yes, I think you've helped me
to find my center.
"Yes, and even more."
Even more?
"Yes, you've helped every one
to find one's center."
Yes, every one can leave one's
problems in the center from now on.

The Big Question: Written on December 18, 1996 at 4:40 pm, at the T-Bar.

Which Way Is The Beach?

"Can you tell me the way to the beach?"
I can tell you it's not in the center.
"The way to the beach

is not the way to the center?"
Yes, and even more.
"Even more?"
Yes, you can find the center
on the way to the beach.
"I thought you said the way to the beach
is not the way to the center."
Sam' T'ing.
"That's really something,
that sam' t'ing.
Yes, S'am T'ing from now on.

Which Way Is The Beach?: Written on December 18, 1996 at 4:45 pm, at the T-Bar.

Note: The title comes from Tim Boehm who liked to take a Charles Atlas muscleman pose and say, "Which way is the beach?"

Note2: [January 29, 1997 addition] Beaches, coastal ones, are always on the outside edges of the land mass, whether a continent or an island, never in the center. This peom works on that ambiguity. The center also refers to the inside of you, where bad doyles are stored. When you're on the way to the beach, thus traveling away from the center of the land mass you're on, you can do a trace of a doyle, which trace will take you to the center of yourself.

Meta-Log V

"You're now writing approaches

to improving emotional ecology
in poems."
Improving emotional ecology in poems,
Improving emotional ecology in poems,
Improving emotional ecology in poems,
I like the sound of that.
"Yes, and even more."
Even more?
"Yes, Doyle Knows you can
use some improvement."
Yes, Doyle Knows.

Meta-Log V: Written on December 18, 1996 at 4:55 pm, at the T-Bar.

Note [January 29, 1997 addition]: Doyle refers to the inventor of the Panacea! process -- the person who has used it for the longest time of anyone else in the world. He knows more about removing doyles than anyone else because he's removed more than anyone else. If anyone knows if I have a doyle to remove, Doyle knows. I'd sure like to know first hand from now on.

Doyle Knows

I can sure use some improvement.
"Doyle Knows!"
I mean, I can use some

improvement, right now!
"Yes, Doyle Knows you can use
some improvement right now."
I mean, I haven't seen any
improvement at all!
"Up until now?"
Yes, I haven't seen any improvement, up until now.
"Doyle Knows."
Thanks for the good doyles. I needed them.
"Yes, and even more."
Yes, even more.

Doyle Knows: Written on December 18, 1996 at 4:59 pm, at the T-Bar. Note [January 29, 1997 addition]: Good doyles refers to the good feeling that can come when one states a limitation (bad doyle) and adds ", up until now" to the very end of the sentence. Beginners in the ,uun process, the author notes, usually place other words past the ,uun phrase, so as to maintain the bad doyle feeling state they expect to experience at the end of stating a limitation, up until now.

Or worse, they put ,uun at the beginning of the sentence, like so: "Up until now I've felt hopeless." They are left with the bad doyles of hopelessness at the end of the sentence every time they say it that way.

Try out how it sounds if you do it the proper way (be sure to take a distinct breath at the comma before uun): "I've felt hopeless, up until now." The good doyle will bring hope that things will be better, and you will feel better right away. With the reduction of stress that attends switching from a bad doyle to a good doyle, you will be more likely to come up with creative solutions from now on.

Doyle Henderson's theory of doyletics has given me new ways of understanding the importance of the ,uun process from now on. Doyle knows, I needed them.

Know It All

"Do You Think Doyle Knows Everything?"
Yes, and even more.
"Nobody likes a Know It All."
Yes, nobody likes a Know It All, up until now.
"I'd like to be a Know It All."
Yes, and even more.
"Yes, I couldn't do it on my own."
Yes, it helps to have a Know It All

on hand at all times.

Know It All: Written on December 18, 1996 at 5:05 pm, at the T-Bar.

Note [January 29, 1997 addition]: Panacea! is a handy Know It All because it will help you to know all about your past, especially about the bad doyles that were stored in your past, and have been coming up seemingly unbidden, up until now.

With Panacea! you can do it on your own. No drugs, no therapists, no complicated schemes for deciding which technique to use, like so many of the new Pop therapies, just you and your Panacea! disk in the PC. Heck, after awhile you can teach yourself to do it without the Panacea! disk and PC. When you finally throw away the crutch, you will be truly on your own.

At All Times

"I could have a Know It All on hand at all times?"
Yes, and even more.
"That sounds expensive to me."
Yes, and even more.

"Even more?"
Yes, and extensive.
"Extensive and expensive?"
Yes, and even more.
"Even more?"
Yes, it takes some gold,
golden moments,
your precious time.
"All my time's been precious to me
since I learned to enjoy being
a Know It All."
And before you became a Know It All?
"My time just dragged on -- it wasn't so precious."
Yes, so you invested some of your gold,
some of your precious time, and you will
enjoy precious moments from now on.
enjoy precious moments from now on.
enjoy precious moments from now on.
"I like the sound of that!"

At All Times: Written on December 18, 1996 at 5:10 pm, at the T-Bar.

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