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Member: Earl Gosnell
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Location: Eugene, OR
Member Since: Oct 15 '07
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BSEE, U. of Cincinnati. Ordained minister, United Congregation of Friends. Poet Laureate, Longfellow, Colorado.  more
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About topreviewerman
Engineers are sometimes misunderstood in social situations where people aren't used to the way they think. At work when, say, they complete a flow chart to coordinate the various tasks and timings and probabilities to complete a job most efficiently, they are just doing their job. But when I do a review by coordinating various aspects of it in order to complete the overall review most efficiently, some see it as "jumping around" and it throws them. Can't I just stick with one familiar straightforward plan for all my reviews?

It would be like reading a book where one would expect to see the bookmark moving slowly but surely to the conclusion but instead sees it lingering overly long at some spots, skipping others, and returning to prior sections along the way: reading the way an engineer completes tasks in his flow chart. Yes, that does sort of cry out for correction, but remember Simon and Garfunkel, Sounds of Silence, "You read your Emily Dickinson/ And I my Robert Frost/ And we mark our place with book markers/ That measure what we lost." These movies, some of them, are really great works of art touching on important topics that are all too easy to miss, especially if one adopts a single method of review.

"Like a poem poorly written,/ We are couplets out of rhythm,/ Verses out of rhyme,/ In syncopated time." But that's what John Whitehead was talking about in Grasping for the Wind, that in this chaotic age modern man's search for meaning uses movies the way paintings once were used, as a forum for discussing religion and God. I'm just trying to bring this discussion along as best I can.