I’m watching water boil. As usual, of course, that’s not true; I’m writing about watching water boil and pretending that’s what I’m actually doing, all part of the pretense and artifice which is to be found here. (Not for much longer.) to be specific, I have started a flame under a pot of water, and I am expecting it to start to boil before long, and occasionally I am getting up from the keyboard and going to the kitchen and looking at it. So, is there action here, or inaction? I have started the flame: Action there. But my action has ceased; I no longer intervene but observe, and wait. The flame is active, in a way; though I set it hopping, it hops for me, and passively, as it were, exerts itself and transfers some of its energy to the water. Which is surely passive, or perhaps not; soon it, too, will be set to hopping, and it is certainly potentially active, if, for instance, the cat (of which I have none) overturns the vessel and the water exchanges its passive identity as a still pond for its active one, as a rushing torrent. And hot, too — won’t the cat (of which I have none) be sorry! and I took a break and saw the water boiling; so the time has come for all of us, man, flame, water and cat (of which I have none) to unite in harmonious action. Goodbye!
I can see my kitchen from my computer, so theoretically, I could do both at the same time. Assuming I can type without looking without my words hwrrubf II NUJ=XWS YP,