Episode 30

Sort of Sorting

THE THREE-HEADED MAN are prompted by Jimmy to have a conversation about a phrase: "Sort of Sorting". The heads explore its obvious and subtle implications. Jimmy begins the exploration by wondering about certainty and messiness.

Phreddie replies by saying "sort of sorting" implies a process. We gather data and sort it. Jazzy reminds the other heads that we have begun investing and creating NFTs. We knew nothing a few weeks ago, but we have been working through a process of learning cryptocurrency and sorting it out.

From there, THE THREE-HEADED MAN investigates nature's process of sorting things out and the human desire for categories -- categories to help sort out information.

They conclude by recognizing that categories can lead to dogma and that the Work they do is a "moving target", which disallows easy categorization and promotes alertness and awareness as we constantly resort the data we gather.

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Fred M Schill

I like to do. I like to make things. And, I like telling stories. I tell stories to myself and to others.

First, a short biography, which is, of course, is a story. I was born in Cleveland, played sports, and attended university. Later, after a few years in the radio business, I returned to university to study education and literature.

With a teaching certificate in my file folder, I began working in high schools, first as a strike-breaking scab substitute teacher in Cleveland's far suburbs, and then in Chicago, mostly in private high schools.

Cleveland and Chicago. My two main towns, and I escaped them both. Presently, I live in a tiny, isolated, mountain village in Spain. I am reluctant to write the name of the town because I don't like tourists. When the tourists arrive, they look at me as if I am an animal in a zoo.