coffee-42

I suppose I could attribute a lack of a post yesterday to a lack of coffee, but instead it is a matter of just being too drained to write any of the many things that came to mind.
It is inexplicable, but  perhaps it can be attributed to the fact that when large shifts in things occur, the mere transition takes your breath away.  There are many places where this happened over the last few day, the only one I will mention has to do with the presentation.
Today or tomorrow I will post one of the two versions of the presentation yesteday as promised.  The version I want to present is in power point, may have to wait as I attempt to figure out how it should be done.  It is the more "scholarly" work consistent with the audience and, somewhat cleaverly I hope, presented the ideas not for themselves, but with examples of how great writers (In this case Stowe, Lincoln, Harrison, Jefferson, Tsu and one or two others) changed or attempted to change their worlds.
The only transition I will speak to, but hardly the only important one, addresses the question of finishing the draft of what, in deference to the presentation, I will call the "manifesto" and getting it published in time.  It is rhetoric, and I thank Christine, the editor, for giving it this name and helping to clear up some issues in the presentation by this designation which made the presentation much better.  The transition was also the first presentation, I hope not the last, of the concepts embodied in the book and in the presentation.
It is Monday, the 3rd of December.  I haven't had anything (knowingly at least, I think in New Orleans they pump coffee into the air like oxygen in a casino) with caffene in it for 18 days, not even 3 weeks, but that is the subject of these entries and it makes some sense to maintain that thread just as it would lose continuity if I posted poems in posts on the hologram universe, which, of course, I have already done.