Milton's Satan boldly announced that "the mind is its own place, and in itself/ Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n." post below, quoted in Washington Post review of A Voyage Around My Room.

Richard II: I will people the cell with my thoughts...

Hamlet: [to Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, when they disagree with him re Denmark) Then for you 'tis not a prison. Tis nothing good nor _ but thinking makes it so. I could be trapped in a nutshell and count myself the king of infinite spaces, were it not that I have bad dreams.

Archimedes: Give me where to stand and I shall move the...


also been thinking to transcribe some papers, incl mine re above - specifically re Richard II, Henry IV, Henry "Hal" V. with reference to Hamlet, whom Richard II is like, in that nothing is good nor bad for him but thinking makes it so. not that you choose what you think, you are subject to that as much at to any event. Henry IV is not like Hamlet, feels the world to be sunny because the sun is shining not bcs he thinks he is. ~ that's how I recall it

and maybe I like transcribing.
enjoyed typing out pages from Machine re the Eohippus.
was int to type while looking at the source, *not* at the screen (or keyboard) - int bcs I can do it but I falter. and as typing can think about the faltering, is it when I try to think of pressing the correct key? is it certain movements with the shift key for example that I do not really have learned?and I can wonder at the working, as much as it does, of motor memory.
I am doing something without thinking it! I'm glad I learned to type. that is something I learned, and not on my own, right? typing class at Frankfurt Middle School, 8th grade I think.