PASSING THE TIME

Not having a sock drawer, I decided to spend some of the endless free time that now stretches before me sorting through a number of piles of manila folders and loose papers stacked on the shelves of my study, materials that did not make it into file cabinets when Susie and I moved into Carolina Meadows three years ago.  My initial hope was that I would turn up two ancient documents that had gone missing: my doctoral diploma and my Honorable Discharge from the National Guard.  I have found the first thus far and not the second. But along the way I turned up a number of typescripts and manuscripts, things I wrote for my own edification thirty years ago and more and had long since forgotten.  One is a hand-written document roughly 5,000 words long bearing the imposing title “Preliminary Notes for a Critique of the Physical Quantities Model of Reproduction.”  I like to think of it as my own personal Economic-Philosophic Manuscript of 1988 (or thereabouts).  I am going to spend today entering it into my computer, after which I will post it on this blog.  I figure the real world will get along without me quite well until I am done.