Homer Jean Moore Jr, 1951-2008

[Bruce I. Kodish]

A dear friend, Homer Jean Moore died on Wednesday, October 22. Homer Jean qualified as one of the most significant GS student-practitioners (a term he favored) in the last thirty years. He contributed to the Institute of General Semantics as a writer, editor, teacher (at both beginner and advanced seminars), member of the Board of Trustees, webmaster, donor, etc.

More on Homer Jean at http://korzybskifiles.blogspot.com/2008/10/homer-j-moore-jr-korzybs...

[David Linwood]

Dear Bruce,

Thank you for your description of our friend Homer Jean Moore -- and amazing life!

I am inundated with teaching math (130 students), and have not been active lately in communicating with my friends and colleagues. I shall have a breather during the holidays between semesters at Univ of TN, Knoxville.

Where are you now in your monumental history of AK?

Love to you and Susan,

David Linwood
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[Bruce I. Kodish]

Hi David,
I've been kind of busy myself. Besides the Korzybski bio, I'm going to NYC tomorrow to participate in the AKML (Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture) dinner and the weekend symposium afterwards. I was invited to give a presentation on the bio which I'm doing Sat. Check the latest post on korzybskifiles.blogspot.com for more info on that.

I'm finishing up wih the book now. Am working on a chapter now covering the years 1938 to 1941, the first few years of the Institute of General Semantics. I have 4 more chapters planned after that and I'll be done. We're anticipating that the book will be out sometime next year. Still, though we've got a lot of work to do on it, I've written the 'lions share' of the book. I think you'll be pleased when you see it.

Best Regards,
Bruce

[David Linwood]

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for the update on your recent activity. I have been active only in researching the background for my second volume of the Hannah and Miriam trilogy (Miriam and Joshua). In addition I am doing research at the Univ here in Knoxville on "Pushing Gravity", extending Fatio Duillard's and Georges LeSage 17th Century version of Newton's Laws of Gravitation, transforming it into a "pushing" force using streams of random "gravitons". There is small but vital group of scientists investigating "gravitons" at the quark or sub-quark level, and they seem fascinated with my formulations which reproduce gravity as a pushing force. Gravitons apparently move at about twenty-billion times the speed of light -- which opens up a whole new world of "real time" communication and control of space vehicles in deep space (intergalactic).

I am looking forward to reading your monumental history of AK -- one of the shining lights of the 20th Century.
I find that my habits of "thought" and analysis have been permanently altered from those of my scientific companions because of my many years of contact with GS and Korzybski, and others. They seem to find me as a "strange bird", but in a good way -- they remain curious at what and how I produce "science".

In a few months, I hope to celebrate my 80th birthday, still very active in teaching and research, but as a lecturer -- so as to remain unfettered by the need to support someone else's idea of "science". Getting money from NSF is a sheer waste of time -- at least for me it is. If you take the "Queen's Dollar" in science you do the "Queen's work" -- and not your own. They have plenty of scientists doing that stuff.

Best regards and love to you and Susan,

David
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