Hobbes as Heraclitus Equals Borges And What Does This Mean For The American Colossus?

Well, before the Vodka Gazpacho recipe let's drink some coffee (Sumatra Blue Batak--ah the deliciousness of dirt and flowers) and savor a bit of Hobbes:
"For the continuall change of mans body, destroyes in time the parts which in sense were moved: So that distance of time, and of place, hath one and the same effect in us. For as at a great distance of place, that which wee look at, appears dimme, and without distincution of the smaller parts; and as Voyces grow weak, and inarticulate: so also after great distance of time, our imagination of the Past is weak; and wee lose (for example) of Cities wee have seen, many particular streets; and of Actions, many particular Circumstances. This decyaing sense, when wee would express the thing it self, (I mean fancy it selfe,) wee call Imagination, as I said before: But when we would express the decay, and signifie that the Sense is fading, old, and past, it is called Memory. So that Imagination and Memory, are but one thing, which for divers considerations hath divers names."

And a taste of Heraclitus: "A man in the night kindles a light for himself when his vision is extinguished; living he is in contact with the dead, when asleep, and with the sleeper, when awake."

And in my recipe when you combine Hobbes' imagination with Heraclitus' sleeper, well you arrive at Jorge Luis Borges' "The Circular Ruins." Somebody check my math, it may be the brown sugar notes in the Blue Batrak talking, or . . . in order for The American Colossus to protect the city, he must work on the quality of his dreams.

Footnote: One may contend that Heraclitian dreamin' is found in this bit from Hobbes: "The imagination of them that sleep, are those we call Dreams. And these also (as all other Imaginations) have been before, wither totally, or by parcells in the Sense."

What are you dreams for the city? Mine? That's right. The Furies.

Tomorrow: How My Syllabus for ENGL 2328 (American Literature II) Will Improve the Dreams of the American Colossus.