Sudoblog? Why I call it that

My original impulse to call this a “Sudoblog” was to alert the reader that, since my objective was to showcase and offer selected samples of my literary work, the material in this blog would not appear in anything approaching a chronological order. My next reflection was on the fact that in the terminology of Linux programming, “sudo” implies a sort of meta-programming, through which the normal configuration of the system is being altered.
This brought me to reflecting on the very significant difference between “time” and “progress.” In 1936, Aldus Huxley published a novel, Eyeless in Gaza, in a style which was then considered highly experimental, because the chapters were non-sequential. Subsequently, psychiatric observation of the “flashbacks” of PTSD are beginning to provide us with a particular insight into the relativity of Time. Something there is in the psyche which transcends Time as we know it, and certain kinds of healing can only be accomplished after the therapeutic process has gotten in touch with that part of the psyche which transcends time.
The dimension in which the mind transcends time (and therefore space-time) is part of our experience, but we have difficulty trying to comprehend it because our cultures (at least the ones comprising the “Western” universe of discourse) have not yet developed the necessary conceptual tools.
It is my feeling that we can gain some appreciation of this “dimension of meaning” which transcends space & time by studying the varieties of Time that we find in literature.

1. The time when the work was written. Allowing for the fact that some of us cling to the past and some of us are inwardly bent on trying to anticipate the future, every work has a relation to the passions, prejudices, and world views of the time and the place in which it has been authored.
2. The time in which the narrative is set. In ordinary blogs and journals, this is pretty much the same as Time1. Often, however, literary writers attempt to gain depth of perspective by projecting the light of imagination on the past or, as in science-fiction, on some anticipated “future.”
3. The time when interest in the work creates an audience and a dialogue, and
4. The actual time in which a particular reader interacts with the document. This presents the clearest evidence of a dimension transcending time. To the best of our knowledge, of all creatures here on the earth, only humans actualize this dimension. Through literature, a reader (Time4 = 2010) can engage in s sort of dialogue with an Elizabethan author (Time1 = 1598) who in turn is attempting to recreate the experience of an inhabitant of Classical Rome (Time2 = 44 BC.)

It is my feeling that, just as our ancestors learned how to conceptualize Time through cave-paintings, tallying moon-cycles, and other attempts at predictive prophesy, our experience of literary and psychological flashbacks and “flash-forwards” will eventually culminate in the development of linguistic and logical tools which are capable of conceptualizing “the dimension of meaning.”