Seriousness

Berkeley, Tuesday, December 16, 2025 8:04 PM

Ok. I am going against intuition to write here, instead to finish chapter 4, which then is against me.

So then, why to just discharge something here.

Sometimes, that have been the purpose of my blog. I know the first sentence I could delete, but I do not even do that.

It is a late warm up, to keep writing.

Projects, life, everything that I do, happens with the idealistic one page per day.

Might be warming up the brain and the hands could be on the same topic.

Of course, if there is not enough sleep is not that easy to keep producing. But Saint Pedro de Alcantara, one of the mentors of Saint Teresa de Avila, used to slept 1.5 hours. Is that possible?

Current science says that no.

Other folk, I do not have his name at hand, did a master plan for the city of Boston around the 1600s. His plan contained plenty of restoring areas, and parks, connecting to Charles River. He was a patient in the recently designed lunatic or asylum hospital on the north side of the Charles River in front of the main center of Boston. I would need to be careful with my references or names. My apologies for those writing liberties I getting my brain into this, in a world with a few distractions. But please read the book Inventing the Charles River, around one of the first three or four chapter to get the idea of this “patient”. I mentioned him, because according to citations in that book, I recall he said he had not slept for two months. Of course, he would be in asylum then. I am yet still surprise if there is evidence of the lack of sleep from the prominent Dominican priest, San Pedro de Alcantara, Spaniard, probably from nearby Badajoz or Extremadura (not sure about that), Patron Saint of Brazil. Good to fact check those things.

Moving again to the library soon.

Peer pressure, and peer reading is good.