@Lookout @Lookout

exploring the concept of programmed minds' ability
to develop ideas which are truly individually based.

As an aside, if my memory serves, was it Steven D
that was involved in prison literary work?

thanks for the Robbie Burns passage!

Chris Hedges teaches in a prison. His students wrote a play, Caged.

He tells a bit about it in this article.

Steph wrote a scene about being locked in Ad Seg — administrative segregation — in Trenton. He was sent to Ad Seg for 365 days in 2009 after being found in possession of a contraband cell phone he had bought from a guard for $200 while he was in Newark's Northern State Prison. There are guards willing to sell prisoners contraband items from cell phones to drugs, including heroin.

Nearly every student in the class had spent some time in solitary confinement — what are known euphemistically as control units. Those accused of committing an infraction are first sent to "the hole," a prehearing control unit, until they are found guilty or innocent, which is almost always determined by the statements submitted by the corrections officers. Prisoners in the hole are not permitted to have any personal property or phone privileges. They are held there for between five and thirty days before being returned to the general population, or, if found guilty, transferred to Ad Seg. Prisoners can remain there for many years.

Man's Inhumanity to Man
by Robert Burns
Many and sharp the numerous ills
Inwoven with our frame;
More pointed still, we make ourselves
Regret, remorse and shame;
And man, whose heaven-erected face
The smiles of love adorn,
Man's inhumanity to man,
Makes countless thousands mourn.

Hoping for some rain today. Only 0.1" is predicted...hardly a drought buster. Mostly house chores to do today. Don't be imprisoned by your own thoughts...be a free thinker.

Take care and have a good day!

@on the cusp

to be packing-up for another great adventure!

Writers today have societal constraints and censorship that would make it doubly difficult to express themselves.
I applaud anyone who nevertheless tries.
I have some odds and ends to finish up before I take off for the getaway.
Hope we will have a lively discussion and some tunes drop into the thread.

@enhydra lutris

as the old saying goes, can't ketch y'all
meaning when the aft mast is astern of the wheel
when it falls, you can't catch it

snag; Yawl. You might find this interesting. Among the entries it eventually dropped me into pictures and after a few yawls, sort of coughed up large numbers of sailboats and motor-sailers, including some obvious schooners, sloops and cutters and some that were very probably ketches. Trick question, I know, but ...

be well and have a good one