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October 16: A thought that has me excited is that my menteformal appreciatory matching mechanism may be my ticket to commercial success. Ridiculous, yes, but I believe it as I write this--just as I believed many of my past ideas seemed tickets to commercial success. This kind of thing keeps me going.
I think few of my past false tickets had anything wrong with them, except perhaps lack of an energetic marketeer behind them, and complexity & originality--and the opposition of the gods. This one has a new advantage: it's much simpler than anything else I've come up with, but also applicable to all kinds of things besides poetry. In actuality, it accounts for our liking and not liking everything. My hope is that I can describe it clearly just for poetry, then show how it works for all art, then all everything. If my energy holds up, and I have had an okay level of that lately (for a change), I think I can get my description clear, in which case it will also be simple, because the principal is so simple it will be rejected on that account much more than it is rejected on any other account.
Conclusion: expect more about menteforms, for a while. Starting tomorrow. Or the next day. . . . Or sometime soon! (Hey, I'm working frantically at the rate of six paragraphs a day or more to make a final draft of my sci fi novel, another of my one-time tickets to commercial success, so I have a good excuse for not blasting away toward a decent expression of my appreciatory mechanism right away.)
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