Malvika's Ramblings

And then light shone upon me…

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Freezing Minds

Some interesting stuff I came across in a book --

Paralysis of will.

Conversational Analysis

And Analysis paralysis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis

Maybe it applies to Dev D when the character couldn't analyse if he was doing right or wrong.. Couldn't be bothered. This can be seen as a handicap or maybe as honest living when you don't use the usual tools of 'shoulds' to analyse situations.

These topics deal with intellectualism and frustration and feeling overwhelmed and experiencing guilt at being unable to make decisions. Paralysis of will is like "I cant be bothered to vote because the entire system has to change from scratch anyway. I just don't have the will.... Why pretend to like my job? Why pretend to enjoy a conversation when I just don't have the will to tolerate it."

Ha ha! And this blog-post is still.. just another analysis.

In the name of science

Extract from an official report on laboratory experiments by Hoffman:

“Last Friday, April 16, 1943, I was forced to stop my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and to go home, as I was seized by a peculiar restlessness associated with a sensation of mild dizziness. On arriving home, I lay down and sank into a kind of drunkenness which was not unpleasant and which was characterized by extreme activity of imagination. As I lay in a dazed condition with my eyes closed (I experienced daylight as disagreeably bright) there surged upon me an uninterrupted stream of fantastic images of extraordinary plasticity and vividness and accompanied by an intense, kaleidoscope-like play of colors. This condition gradually passed off after about two hours.The nature and the course of this extraordinary disturbance raised my suspicions that some exogenic intoxication may have been involved and that the Iysergic acid diethylamide with which I had been working that afternoon could have been responsible. I had separated the two isomeric forms that are formed by this synthesis, namely Iysergic diethylamide and isolysergic acid diethylamide and prepared the crystalline water soluble salt of Iysergic acid diethylamide with tartaric acid. However, I could not imagine how this compound could have accidentally found its way into my body in a sufficient quantity to produce such phenomena. Moreover, the nature of the symptoms did not tally with those previously associated with ergot poisoning. In order to get to the root of the matter, I decided to conduct some experiments on myself with the substance in question. I started with the lowest dose that might be expected to have any effect, i.e., 0.25 mg LSD. The notes in my laboratory journal read as follows:
April 19, 1943: Preparation of an 0.5% aqueous solution of d-lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate.
4:20 P.M.: 0.5 cc (0.25 mg LSD) ingested orally. The solution is tasteless.
4:50 P.M.: no trace of any effect.
5:00 P.M.: slight dizziness, unrest, difficulty in concentration, visual disturbances, marked desire to laugh...”More here.