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Members of dedicated storage teams need to have as much political savvy as they do IT know-how.
If CIOs want to fulfill the potential for storage technology, Gartner Inc. said they will need an elite corps -- a "dedicated storage management team" -- that will combine storage expertise with a customer-first mentality and razor-sharp purchase and negotiating skills.
That advice is aimed mainly at companies with at least six to eight servers and, ideally, 16 to 20 servers. Gartner analysts Robert Passmore and April Adams have written a series of reports on the future of storage and how companies should prepare. The analysts predict that building storage teams that can maximize the potential for the evolving technology will be complicated. Political savvy, as well as IT know-how, is required, and that combination isn't easy to find.
First off, the leaders of IT teams dedicated to storage will require vision, energy, credibility and the requisite business smarts to deal with upper level management, Gartner said. "While the knowledge of storage and storage management issues is helpful, it is far more important for the leader to be able to establish successful relationships with peers, upper-level managers and other individuals inside and outside the IT organization," the report found.
It will be necessary to get system administrators and database administrators on board even though they are the groups most likely to be threatened by the new model, Gartner said. "They will often find their roles diminishing and may feel as if they are losing control of important elements in the environment."
"Q: Which team -- the networking team or the storage team -- should support the fabric of the storage area network? And for that matter, is it easier for network staff to make the transition to storage or vice versa?
"A: The management of a storage network … is tied very closely to what's happening with storage volumes, a concept that the IP networking people don't know anything about. Most companies that experimented with including the IP networking staff on the storage team report that their involvement was more a hindrance than a help."
Adding to the potential for political trouble, Gartner suggests raiding your systems administrator ranks for members of your new dedicated storage team.
The authors break out some dozen "critical skills sets," beginning with storage management -- "the most important and often the most difficult to acquire." Companies should be prepared for extensive training. Storage management skills are "often hidden within the system management ranks of today's organizations."
In addition to planning, monitoring, repairing and tending to all the day-to-day functions of running a storage network, the storage team will need to take a service approach, thinking of users as customers -- even when dealing with other IT personnel (such as system and database administrators) who used to be thought of as colleagues, Gartner said. The team will design and implement the future storage utility, so it will need architectural skills. A real-time storage model also requires strong project management skills.
Passmore and Adams pull no punches on two often-asked questions -- namely, how much should the networking group and the mainframe storage management teams be involved in this new breed of storage network. Neither is of much use, they contend. "[Mainframe storage teams] are rarely skilled and experienced in open systems operating systems and applications. We've also encountered situations where mainframe administrators assigned to the open system space are bewildered by the complexity and the lack of tools available." At most, one person from mainframe should be assigned to the systems team to "provide vision."
The IP networking people would also not be ideal dedicated storage team members.
"The networking team is focused exclusively on the IP stack and nothing outside the stack they don't even have to guarantee delivery of packets over the stack." As SANs grow, networking skills will become more important for the storage team, but as SANs bridge from site to site over wide area network technology, according to Gartner, that technology more likely will be delivered by the IP networking team to the storage team, as a service.
Not all CIOs are convinced that a dedicated storage team is a must. Melinda Kramer, is CTO at Grosvenor Capital Management LP, a Chicago-based asset management firm with $14.5 billion assets under management and 150 employees. Grosvenor is a Microsoft shop, with about 35 servers. But the storage size is not that large and the operations are handled by a handful of network engineers.
"I think we're looking more toward smarter, more capable tools to relieve the storage management process over time," Kramer said. "That would be my objective rather than beefing up a team for something that I just don't consider any type of business, strategic, competitive initiative."
The firm, for example, is just now embarking on an effort to develop storage architecture and storage strategies that would allow its trained network team to spend less time, not more on storage, she said. Grosvenor has recently done that with its e-mail archives, she said, using FrontBridge Technologies to allow employees to access their own e-mail archives. "We're looking more to a self-help process."

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members of dedicated storage teams need to have as much political savvy as they do it know-how.
if cios want to fulfill the potential for storage technology, gartner inc. said they will need an elite corps -- a "dedicated storage management team" -- that will combine storage expertise with a customer-first mentality and razor-sharp purchase and negotiating skills.
that advice is aimed mainly at companies with at least six to eight servers and, ideally, 16 to 20 servers. gartner analysts robert passmore and april adams have written a series of reports on the future of storage and how companies should prepare. the analysts predict that building storage teams that can maximize the potential for the evolving technology will be complicated. political savvy, as well as it know-how, is required, and that combination isn't easy to find.
first off, the leaders of it teams dedicated to storage will require vision, energy, credibility and the requisite business smarts to deal with upper level management, gartner said. "while the knowledge of storage and storage management issues is helpful, it is far more important for the leader to be able to establish successful relationships with peers, upper-level managers and other individuals inside and outside the it organization," the report found.
it will be necessary to get system administrators and database administrators on board even though they are the groups most likely to be threatened by the new model, gartner said. "they will often find their roles diminishing and may feel as if they are losing control of important elements in the environment."
"q: which team -- the networking team or the storage team -- should support the fabric of the storage area network? and for that matter, is it easier for network staff to make the transition to storage or vice versa?
"a: the management of a storage network … is tied very closely to what's happening with storage volumes, a concept that the ip networking people don't know anything about. most companies that experimented with including the ip networking staff on the storage team report that their involvement was more a hindrance than a help."
adding to the potential for political trouble, gartner suggests raiding your systems administrator ranks for members of your new dedicated storage team.
the authors break out some dozen "critical skills sets," beginning with storage management -- "the most important and often the most difficult to acquire." companies should be prepared for extensive training. storage management skills are "often hidden within the system management ranks of today's organizations."
in addition to planning, monitoring, repairing and tending to all the day-to-day functions of running a storage network, the storage team will need to take a service approach, thinking of users as customers -- even when dealing with other it personnel (such as system and database administrators) who used to be thought of as colleagues, gartner said. the team will design and implement the future storage utility, so it will need architectural skills. a real-time storage model also requires strong project management skills.
passmore and adams pull no punches on two often-asked questions -- namely, how much should the networking group and the mainframe storage management teams be involved in this new breed of storage network. neither is of much use, they contend. "[mainframe storage teams] are rarely skilled and experienced in open systems operating systems and applications. we've also encountered situations where mainframe administrators assigned to the open system space are bewildered by the complexity and the lack of tools available." at most, one person from mainframe should be assigned to the systems team to "provide vision."
the ip networking people would also not be ideal dedicated storage team members.
"the networking team is focused exclusively on the ip stack and nothing outside the stack they don't even have to guarantee delivery of packets over the stack." as sans grow, networking skills will become more important for the storage team, but as sans bridge from site to site over wide area network technology, according to gartner, that technology more likely will be delivered by the ip networking team to the storage team, as a service.
not all cios are convinced that a dedicated storage team is a must. melinda kramer, is cto at grosvenor capital management lp, a chicago-based asset management firm with $14.5 billion assets under management and 150 employees. grosvenor is a microsoft shop, with about 35 servers. but the storage size is not that large and the operations are handled by a handful of network engineers.
"i think we're looking more toward smarter, more capable tools to relieve the storage management process over time," kramer said. "that would be my objective rather than beefing up a team for something that i just don't consider any type of business, strategic, competitive initiative."
the firm, for example, is just now embarking on an effort to develop storage architecture and storage strategies that would allow its trained network team to spend less time, not more on storage, she said. grosvenor has recently done that with its e-mail archives, she said, using frontbridge technologies to allow employees to access their own e-mail archives. "we're looking more to a self-help process."


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I do not live in an oral culture. Not reading would not suddenly make me memorize huge chunks of poetry or the history of my people. My memory would not suddenly improve and I would not be challenged to make it improve. The effect of reading, from where I am standing, is quite different than the effects that Thamus feared for his people.
Yet I find the description of Thamus’ fears interesting. I’ve read similar descriptions other times, when I’ve been teaching my children about ancient Egypt. I’ve wondered whether I should be putting more effort into encouraging my children to memorize more, attempting to create an artificial sort of pre-literate appreciation of memorization at home but never being able to do so because even the act of trying to memorize something is for me, to read and re-read it. I’ve wondered occasionally about whether the children sitting at home reading story after story is really any different than watching television show after television show. Reading is mentally active, perhaps, while television is passive but surely both actions discourages healthy physical activity, doesn’t it? Does living adventures vicariously though storybooks really substitute for getting out in the world and exploring?
I remember reading somewhere that when books first became inexpensive enough that private individuals could read them for recreation the concern was expressed that books would promote unsocialness. A person reading is not available for conversation and those the ideas the person gets from the book is not the being experienced also by those around him or her. My oldest son is finally old enough to read chapter books by himself and I have a slight taste of that isolation. Suddenly he’s venturing into imaginary worlds that I have no knowledge of.
I’m not against reading. I love reading. I love that my children are reading. But loving something doesn’t mean I don’t wonder about something’s implications.
My oldest has been reading the Harry Potter series. He’s read to book four and agreed with us to put off reading the others till he’s a bit older. I remember when he came downstairs disturbed at reading that Peter Pettigrew’s finger was all that could be found of him and shipped to his mother. “That’s disgusting,” he said. I shrugged and pointed out that he was okay with Luke losing his hand in Star Wars. “Yes,” he answered, “but that was different. I could see the actor just had his arm pulled up his shirt. I didn’t have to see the finger lying there in the box.” I couldn’t help smiling, because of course the book he was reading didn’t have any picture of the finger lying there in its box. The picture was entirely in his head, and yet there it was so much more powerful to him than the visual effects of the Star Wars movie.
While our son is reading the Harry Potter books, my husband and I have been going back through and rewatching the Harry Potter movies, at night, when the children are in bed. With each movie we’ve sat stumped trying to figure out if we’ve ever watched it before. We were sure we had watched most of them before, but what do we remember? Very little, it turns out. Probably part of that is because we watched them during sleep-deprived stressed out times in our lives, but also because – and I think this is the more powerful reason – we each have such clear images in our mind of how the story goes, images developed from reading the book, that the movies never really stuck. There isn’t room for them. The part of our brains that pictures what the events look like is filled with images we developed from the book.
Reading is powerful but does reading convey wisdom or only the semblance of it? Reading about something can never convey as much as experiencing it oneself. An author can take an experience, transfer some information about it but never the whole of the experience. Yet is not any experience limited? Every person is apt to pick up only a little about what they are experiencing, and perhaps reading a description of something would point out what the individual would miss in their own experience. If an author gathers together evidence from many different people’s experiences of an event or a situation, would they not be able to patch together a more complete picture than the individuals experience themselves?
Reading can flavor our other books and stories. I remember one book on Waldorf education that argued that only one story should be read to a child at a sitting, so that the story’s energy could be experienced untainted by comparison with the other. For myself I do the opposite. I read things in sets and let them contrast with one another. Sometimes meaning appears only when things overlap.
Reading can flavor our own experience. A picture book turned my children into giants and broccoli into trees. Complaining and other dementer-like activities brings about the cry of “Expecto Patronum” and chains of actions each with predictable reactions can bring about joking about “If you give a mouse a cookie…”. Books can provide metaphors and ways of understanding our own lives. A child’s unmet need is like the dragon in There’s No Such Thing as a Dragon. Max from Where the Wild Things Are can help a child make sense of the love-frustration relationship children have with their adults.
Yet do books end up coloring our vision enough that we don’t notice the strangeness of it? Do they prevent us from experiencing a less mediated life? Of course there isn’t any such thing as an unmediated life. If we don’t get our meaning from our books, we’d get it from our friends, the stories our parents tell, television shows or computer games. Books at least can reflect the perceptions of people from a decent span of time, whereas computer games and television shows can only reflect the present or more recent past.
Thamus worried that reading and writing would convey only the semblance of wisdom. I think it might have changed the definition of wisdom. Knowing about something is no longer an impressive act of memory or experience. Now the question is what can you do with what you know. Can you create something of your own out of it? Can you reflect on what it means?
Hi, found you on Friday Follow.
This is quite a post, and I do not mean its length. Reading is a powerful thing that we need. Without reading our knowledge would be limited to our own personal worlds.
To make an intelligent comment to you I need to think about all that you wrote. It’s too much to process quickly. Or maybe, being my first visit, I need to be acquainted with how you think/write by reading other posts, new and old.
What I am trying to say, reading this made me feel like I was back in school. The post is thought provocative , timely, though-out, well-presented, and makes my head pop. That’s a good thing.
Let me just say I loved the post. It is different that most of the posts I read with its depth and double-side logic. I will be back to read future posts and hopefully can write a legible comment.
I am following you through my google account, but my site is on wordpress.
I hope you find my site as interesting as I find yours, and I hope I haven’t said anything that does not read as I meant to say.
I’m glad I came across this post Christy – very thought-provoking. I wanted to react to one thing you say above in particular.
This is an interesting thought regarding how stories can interact to have an impact on your experience as a reader. As I’ve been reading so much more as a result of our blog as well as starting a book club, and just having more time to read in general, I’m seeing trends in my reading. Specifically, I’m realizing that my enjoyment and even arguably, my understanding of a book is affected by what I read previously. And further, my general like or dislike can be molded based on discussions with others about a book. I had just finished reading Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (which, thematically, is a very, very heavy book) and then I read A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan expecting to LOVE it based on a few factors. Well, I didn’t like it at all and I think it’s because Fall on Your Knees had left such a foul taste in my mouth (so to speak). Reading (at least fiction) has become an activity so far from Thamus’ original intent. Reading to me is a unique experience, and not even always for enjoyment (sometimes I’m left feeling bad, for example). And interestingly, there is a bias in our household, at least, to read fiction. It’s a totally different experience to read non-fiction to the kids as well as reading non-fiction titles as an adult.

lowercased:
i do not live in an oral culture. not reading would not suddenly make me memorize huge chunks of poetry or the history of my people. my memory would not suddenly improve and i would not be challenged to make it improve. the effect of reading, from where i am standing, is quite different than the effects that thamus feared for his people.
yet i find the description of thamus’ fears interesting. i’ve read similar descriptions other times, when i’ve been teaching my children about ancient egypt. i’ve wondered whether i should be putting more effort into encouraging my children to memorize more, attempting to create an artificial sort of pre-literate appreciation of memorization at home but never being able to do so because even the act of trying to memorize something is for me, to read and re-read it. i’ve wondered occasionally about whether the children sitting at home reading story after story is really any different than watching television show after television show. reading is mentally active, perhaps, while television is passive but surely both actions discourages healthy physical activity, doesn’t it? does living adventures vicariously though storybooks really substitute for getting out in the world and exploring?
i remember reading somewhere that when books first became inexpensive enough that private individuals could read them for recreation the concern was expressed that books would promote unsocialness. a person reading is not available for conversation and those the ideas the person gets from the book is not the being experienced also by those around him or her. my oldest son is finally old enough to read chapter books by himself and i have a slight taste of that isolation. suddenly he’s venturing into imaginary worlds that i have no knowledge of.
i’m not against reading. i love reading. i love that my children are reading. but loving something doesn’t mean i don’t wonder about something’s implications.
my oldest has been reading the harry potter series. he’s read to book four and agreed with us to put off reading the others till he’s a bit older. i remember when he came downstairs disturbed at reading that peter pettigrew’s finger was all that could be found of him and shipped to his mother. “that’s disgusting,” he said. i shrugged and pointed out that he was okay with luke losing his hand in star wars. “yes,” he answered, “but that was different. i could see the actor just had his arm pulled up his shirt. i didn’t have to see the finger lying there in the box.” i couldn’t help smiling, because of course the book he was reading didn’t have any picture of the finger lying there in its box. the picture was entirely in his head, and yet there it was so much more powerful to him than the visual effects of the star wars movie.
while our son is reading the harry potter books, my husband and i have been going back through and rewatching the harry potter movies, at night, when the children are in bed. with each movie we’ve sat stumped trying to figure out if we’ve ever watched it before. we were sure we had watched most of them before, but what do we remember? very little, it turns out. probably part of that is because we watched them during sleep-deprived stressed out times in our lives, but also because – and i think this is the more powerful reason – we each have such clear images in our mind of how the story goes, images developed from reading the book, that the movies never really stuck. there isn’t room for them. the part of our brains that pictures what the events look like is filled with images we developed from the book.
reading is powerful but does reading convey wisdom or only the semblance of it? reading about something can never convey as much as experiencing it oneself. an author can take an experience, transfer some information about it but never the whole of the experience. yet is not any experience limited? every person is apt to pick up only a little about what they are experiencing, and perhaps reading a description of something would point out what the individual would miss in their own experience. if an author gathers together evidence from many different people’s experiences of an event or a situation, would they not be able to patch together a more complete picture than the individuals experience themselves?
reading can flavor our other books and stories. i remember one book on waldorf education that argued that only one story should be read to a child at a sitting, so that the story’s energy could be experienced untainted by comparison with the other. for myself i do the opposite. i read things in sets and let them contrast with one another. sometimes meaning appears only when things overlap.
reading can flavor our own experience. a picture book turned my children into giants and broccoli into trees. complaining and other dementer-like activities brings about the cry of “expecto patronum” and chains of actions each with predictable reactions can bring about joking about “if you give a mouse a cookie…”. books can provide metaphors and ways of understanding our own lives. a child’s unmet need is like the dragon in there’s no such thing as a dragon. max from where the wild things are can help a child make sense of the love-frustration relationship children have with their adults.
yet do books end up coloring our vision enough that we don’t notice the strangeness of it? do they prevent us from experiencing a less mediated life? of course there isn’t any such thing as an unmediated life. if we don’t get our meaning from our books, we’d get it from our friends, the stories our parents tell, television shows or computer games. books at least can reflect the perceptions of people from a decent span of time, whereas computer games and television shows can only reflect the present or more recent past.
thamus worried that reading and writing would convey only the semblance of wisdom. i think it might have changed the definition of wisdom. knowing about something is no longer an impressive act of memory or experience. now the question is what can you do with what you know. can you create something of your own out of it? can you reflect on what it means?
hi, found you on friday follow.
this is quite a post, and i do not mean its length. reading is a powerful thing that we need. without reading our knowledge would be limited to our own personal worlds.
to make an intelligent comment to you i need to think about all that you wrote. it’s too much to process quickly. or maybe, being my first visit, i need to be acquainted with how you think/write by reading other posts, new and old.
what i am trying to say, reading this made me feel like i was back in school. the post is thought provocative , timely, though-out, well-presented, and makes my head pop. that’s a good thing.
let me just say i loved the post. it is different that most of the posts i read with its depth and double-side logic. i will be back to read future posts and hopefully can write a legible comment.
i am following you through my google account, but my site is on wordpress.
i hope you find my site as interesting as i find yours, and i hope i haven’t said anything that does not read as i meant to say.
i’m glad i came across this post christy – very thought-provoking. i wanted to react to one thing you say above in particular.
this is an interesting thought regarding how stories can interact to have an impact on your experience as a reader. as i’ve been reading so much more as a result of our blog as well as starting a book club, and just having more time to read in general, i’m seeing trends in my reading. specifically, i’m realizing that my enjoyment and even arguably, my understanding of a book is affected by what i read previously. and further, my general like or dislike can be molded based on discussions with others about a book. i had just finished reading fall on your knees by ann-marie macdonald (which, thematically, is a very, very heavy book) and then i read a visit from the goon squad by jennifer egan expecting to love it based on a few factors. well, i didn’t like it at all and i think it’s because fall on your knees had left such a foul taste in my mouth (so to speak). reading (at least fiction) has become an activity so far from thamus’ original intent. reading to me is a unique experience, and not even always for enjoyment (sometimes i’m left feeling bad, for example). and interestingly, there is a bias in our household, at least, to read fiction. it’s a totally different experience to read non-fiction to the kids as well as reading non-fiction titles as an adult.


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While all the tremulous in England trembled.
What was the fate of those unwieldy craft?
Handy to strike and shun the counterstroke.
The Great Invasion ended in defeat.
And down it went to Davy Jones’s locker.
From aeroplanes that sting and dart away.
Would circumvent an aerial attack.
It’s up to us to see they don’t go back!

lowercased:
while all the tremulous in england trembled.
what was the fate of those unwieldy craft?
handy to strike and shun the counterstroke.
the great invasion ended in defeat.
and down it went to davy jones’s locker.
from aeroplanes that sting and dart away.
would circumvent an aerial attack.
it’s up to us to see they don’t go back!


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In many sports shops, supermarkets and pharmacies you can find standard anatomical insoles for your feet, advertising benefits such as pain-relief and cushioning. What is the difference between this type of insole and those made by a podiatrist?
There are clear differences between the insoles that a podiatrist can perform prior to a biomechanical study of the footprint and its physical examination of the foot. The custom-made insoles are unique and personalised to the individual patient’s foot anatomy. It is important to remember that all feet are different from others’. On the other hand, the insoles in sports shops or supermarkets have standard sizes, depending on the size and model, and are designed to be applied to everyone without any consideration to anatomical alterations or asymmetries you may have.
These standard insoles are not intended to correct, relieve or compensate for foot conditions. Those personalized by podiatrists, in addition to offloading and relieving the foot, our custom orthotics allow a redistribution of weightbearing loads as well as correcting biomechanical alterations and other foot problems.
The price is a difference to be highlighted. While supermarkets can be found from 6 euros, those made to measure have a higher cost. This cost is justified by the fact that it is custom-made, prior to a foot examination and an examination by a foot care professional or podiatrist.
For example, when a person has a vision problem, he or she has two options: to purchase inexpensive eyeglasses at the pharmacy or to visit an ophthalmologist for a complete eye examination, explaining the problem and the prescription needed. Based on this information, the optician can order glasses with the precise prescription, which logically has a much higher cost compared to pharmacy glasses. This is a similar case with bespoke insoles.
The materials used to make prefabricated insoles (or supermarket insoles) are different from those used by podiatrists. The custom-made ones are usually made of high quality thermoformable materials with specific properties for each case, for example, in diabetic patients.
In general, it can be said that some patients respond very well with supermarket inserts, especially if they only require a little more comfort when fitting. Normally, these patients have a normal foot anatomy, without asymmetries or biomechanical problems.
On the other hand, patients with different foot anatomy or asymmetries will need custom-made orthotics. The use of custom insoles is especially important when the patient has a biomechanical problem, imbalances or simply require a specific correction, for example, to correct the foot from an excessive pronation (low arch).
The invested time and cost of custom-made insoles is often quickly recovered, with long-term improvement, improved well-being and fewer visits to the specialist.

lowercased:
in many sports shops, supermarkets and pharmacies you can find standard anatomical insoles for your feet, advertising benefits such as pain-relief and cushioning. what is the difference between this type of insole and those made by a podiatrist?
there are clear differences between the insoles that a podiatrist can perform prior to a biomechanical study of the footprint and its physical examination of the foot. the custom-made insoles are unique and personalised to the individual patient’s foot anatomy. it is important to remember that all feet are different from others’. on the other hand, the insoles in sports shops or supermarkets have standard sizes, depending on the size and model, and are designed to be applied to everyone without any consideration to anatomical alterations or asymmetries you may have.
these standard insoles are not intended to correct, relieve or compensate for foot conditions. those personalized by podiatrists, in addition to offloading and relieving the foot, our custom orthotics allow a redistribution of weightbearing loads as well as correcting biomechanical alterations and other foot problems.
the price is a difference to be highlighted. while supermarkets can be found from 6 euros, those made to measure have a higher cost. this cost is justified by the fact that it is custom-made, prior to a foot examination and an examination by a foot care professional or podiatrist.
for example, when a person has a vision problem, he or she has two options: to purchase inexpensive eyeglasses at the pharmacy or to visit an ophthalmologist for a complete eye examination, explaining the problem and the prescription needed. based on this information, the optician can order glasses with the precise prescription, which logically has a much higher cost compared to pharmacy glasses. this is a similar case with bespoke insoles.
the materials used to make prefabricated insoles (or supermarket insoles) are different from those used by podiatrists. the custom-made ones are usually made of high quality thermoformable materials with specific properties for each case, for example, in diabetic patients.
in general, it can be said that some patients respond very well with supermarket inserts, especially if they only require a little more comfort when fitting. normally, these patients have a normal foot anatomy, without asymmetries or biomechanical problems.
on the other hand, patients with different foot anatomy or asymmetries will need custom-made orthotics. the use of custom insoles is especially important when the patient has a biomechanical problem, imbalances or simply require a specific correction, for example, to correct the foot from an excessive pronation (low arch).
the invested time and cost of custom-made insoles is often quickly recovered, with long-term improvement, improved well-being and fewer visits to the specialist.


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Hello, how can i make beagle search through .doc and .docx file. I have searched google for answers, but have only come up with Ubuntu / Kubuntu solutions which do not work and been stuck on this issue 2-3 weeks now.
OS: SLED 11 updated online and then by updated repositories.
I have tried to install another desktop search application, but in the end I noticed that everything uses beagle.
I have tried to configure beagle, but with no results.
Since the official site http://www.beagle-project.org/ is not useful and I cant seem to be making progress on this issue, I have no choice, but to cry for help.
There is a command line tool beagle-doc-extractor I'm not sure there is a backend for doc/docx.
I need an application with an interface, as the ppl who are going to work with the computer aren't that technical.
Is there any application that can search in a folder (with files and subfolders) and index the doc and docx files, the file data base is more then 4GB of doc-docx files. If beagle can't do it (with the interface, no command line) I would be grateful if anyone can point me to any solution.
The issue here is that I can't find "antiword" for SLED.
antiword works on a few doc files I tried it against. Unsurprisingly, given it was written in 2005, antiword doesn't work on docx files.
I'm not aware of anything that will allow beagle to index docx files and can't just now locate anything that does.
I'll give it a try, thank you for the info. Yet I need both doc and docx. What about Google Desktop Search, is there a version fot SLED, does it use beagle too (as I noticed recoll used beagle)?
What about Google Desktop Search, is there a version fot SLED, does it use beagle too (as I noticed recoll used beagle)?
Beagle seems to be discontinued too. Last version was released over four years ago. The website is gone, thought the domain exists and serves up some sort of, well I don't know quite what it's supposed to be.
me@mine:~/Desktop> unzip -c blah.docx | grep -c "blah blah blah"
me@mine:~/Desktop> unzip -c blah.docx | grep -c "Sequenced By"
It seems like it might be possible to make a filter for beagle using that, but I don't have time to get in to trying right now.
I don't have any recommendation from experiences as I've never bothered with beagle, tracker or any equivalent. I deliberately exclude beagle from my SLED installs because I use SLED in an environment where the home directories are mounted from a server. I exclude tracker from my openSUSE installs because I've never felt I needed it.
me@mine:~/Desktop> unzip -c blah.docx word/document.xml | grep -c "blah blah blah"
me@mine:~/Desktop> unzip -c blah.docx word/document.xml | grep -c "Sequenced By"
Thank you for your replys, I'll try to configure beagle with both antiword and unzip and I hope it works. It's a bit strange to me that an Enterprise OS like SLED doesn't offer any ready to use solution, yes it has beagle, but .doc and .docx are used a lot in most work places and not having them index is ... well an issue. If I can't make this works I'll try to contact support for this, if even they can't help me I think my boss will be sad for buying 3 laptops with SLED.
It occurred to me that someone's probably written something to convert docx files to plain text. Several people have. I picked http://docx2txt.sourceforge.net/ because it was the most recently updated of what I found.
I copied the same blah.docx file I was using earlier in to my home directory, logged out and in again to restart the beagle services, then told Desktop Search to search 'My Files' for a string I know is in blah.docx. blah.docx came up in the search results. So, success. At least in that instance. I don't have any other docx files to hand to do more rigorous testing.
When I selected blah.docx in the search results the snippet of found text didn't show up in the bottom panel like it does for some other file types. I've no idea why. I don't know if not having LibreOffice on this machine is an issue. For reasons far too tedious to go in to I'm currently unable to install LibreOffice on it.
This is all very ad-hoc and rough of course with potentially as yet unknown kinks or quirks or limitations. Manually setting this up on multiple machines is lousy for on going maintenance and consistency. Ideally it all needs to be put together in to an rpm which can then be installed on each machine and subsequently easily updated.
Out of curiosity, why did your boss buy laptops with SLED on them? Also, exactly what version of SLED 11 do you have? I ask because I just noticed your original post says 'OS: SLED 11 ' and also there was a post recently by someone saying they'd just bought a laptop with SLED 11 pre-loaded and it turned out to be a version of SLED 11 that's already End Of Life. The file cat /etc/SuSE-release should contain relevant info. Current version is SLED 11 SP2. SP3 is imminent.
Thank you, I'll be sure to try that. I'm not very good with Linux Systems, but I'll manage with that info.
Out of curiosity, why did your boss buy laptops with SLED on them?
- SLED is something new to our knowledge, he's aways like this, trying something new out.
- Hopes that it's better than the free solution (Ubuntu, Kubuntu), which it is if I can manage to fix this one issue.
- It came with a promotion to the laptops.
Also, exactly what version of SLED 11 do you have? I ask because I just noticed your original post says 'OS: SLED 11 ' and also there was a post recently by someone saying they'd just bought a laptop with SLED 11 pre-loaded and it turned out to be a version of SLED 11 that's already End Of Life. The file cat /etc/SuSE-release should contain relevant info. Current version is SLED 11 SP2. SP3 is imminent.
hello, I wannted to thank everyone for helping, especially mikewillis, as his suggestions and code helped me to overcome this issue. I'm surprised that searching doc and docx is not set to default as that's mainly what people what to search in most cases. Anway the sollution works good enough for me and the firm, so thank you.
hello, I wannted to thank everyone for helping, especially mikewillis, as his suggestions and code helped me to overcome this issue.
Glad to hear you got this working to your satisfaction. Did you have to do anything beyond what's mentioned in this thread?
This seems like something that might be worth writing up for SUSE Conversations (https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/) or perhaps promoting to an article, though I'm not actually sure how the latter works.
I'm surprised that searching doc and docx is not set to default as that's mainly what people what to search in most cases.
I don't think .doc and .docx being what people search for in most cases is true in the context of people who use Linux. A lot of Linux users will avoid them where ever possible. Users of an Enterprise orientated Linux distro are arguably more likely to have to deal with these formats though.

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hello, how can i make beagle search through .doc and .docx file. i have searched google for answers, but have only come up with ubuntu / kubuntu solutions which do not work and been stuck on this issue 2-3 weeks now.
os: sled 11 updated online and then by updated repositories.
i have tried to install another desktop search application, but in the end i noticed that everything uses beagle.
i have tried to configure beagle, but with no results.
since the official site http://www.beagle-project.org/ is not useful and i cant seem to be making progress on this issue, i have no choice, but to cry for help.
there is a command line tool beagle-doc-extractor i'm not sure there is a backend for doc/docx.
i need an application with an interface, as the ppl who are going to work with the computer aren't that technical.
is there any application that can search in a folder (with files and subfolders) and index the doc and docx files, the file data base is more then 4gb of doc-docx files. if beagle can't do it (with the interface, no command line) i would be grateful if anyone can point me to any solution.
the issue here is that i can't find "antiword" for sled.
antiword works on a few doc files i tried it against. unsurprisingly, given it was written in 2005, antiword doesn't work on docx files.
i'm not aware of anything that will allow beagle to index docx files and can't just now locate anything that does.
i'll give it a try, thank you for the info. yet i need both doc and docx. what about google desktop search, is there a version fot sled, does it use beagle too (as i noticed recoll used beagle)?
what about google desktop search, is there a version fot sled, does it use beagle too (as i noticed recoll used beagle)?
beagle seems to be discontinued too. last version was released over four years ago. the website is gone, thought the domain exists and serves up some sort of, well i don't know quite what it's supposed to be.
me@mine:~/desktop> unzip -c blah.docx | grep -c "blah blah blah"
me@mine:~/desktop> unzip -c blah.docx | grep -c "sequenced by"
it seems like it might be possible to make a filter for beagle using that, but i don't have time to get in to trying right now.
i don't have any recommendation from experiences as i've never bothered with beagle, tracker or any equivalent. i deliberately exclude beagle from my sled installs because i use sled in an environment where the home directories are mounted from a server. i exclude tracker from my opensuse installs because i've never felt i needed it.
me@mine:~/desktop> unzip -c blah.docx word/document.xml | grep -c "blah blah blah"
me@mine:~/desktop> unzip -c blah.docx word/document.xml | grep -c "sequenced by"
thank you for your replys, i'll try to configure beagle with both antiword and unzip and i hope it works. it's a bit strange to me that an enterprise os like sled doesn't offer any ready to use solution, yes it has beagle, but .doc and .docx are used a lot in most work places and not having them index is ... well an issue. if i can't make this works i'll try to contact support for this, if even they can't help me i think my boss will be sad for buying 3 laptops with sled.
it occurred to me that someone's probably written something to convert docx files to plain text. several people have. i picked http://docx2txt.sourceforge.net/ because it was the most recently updated of what i found.
i copied the same blah.docx file i was using earlier in to my home directory, logged out and in again to restart the beagle services, then told desktop search to search 'my files' for a string i know is in blah.docx. blah.docx came up in the search results. so, success. at least in that instance. i don't have any other docx files to hand to do more rigorous testing.
when i selected blah.docx in the search results the snippet of found text didn't show up in the bottom panel like it does for some other file types. i've no idea why. i don't know if not having libreoffice on this machine is an issue. for reasons far too tedious to go in to i'm currently unable to install libreoffice on it.
this is all very ad-hoc and rough of course with potentially as yet unknown kinks or quirks or limitations. manually setting this up on multiple machines is lousy for on going maintenance and consistency. ideally it all needs to be put together in to an rpm which can then be installed on each machine and subsequently easily updated.
out of curiosity, why did your boss buy laptops with sled on them? also, exactly what version of sled 11 do you have? i ask because i just noticed your original post says 'os: sled 11 ' and also there was a post recently by someone saying they'd just bought a laptop with sled 11 pre-loaded and it turned out to be a version of sled 11 that's already end of life. the file cat /etc/suse-release should contain relevant info. current version is sled 11 sp2. sp3 is imminent.
thank you, i'll be sure to try that. i'm not very good with linux systems, but i'll manage with that info.
out of curiosity, why did your boss buy laptops with sled on them?
- sled is something new to our knowledge, he's aways like this, trying something new out.
- hopes that it's better than the free solution (ubuntu, kubuntu), which it is if i can manage to fix this one issue.
- it came with a promotion to the laptops.
also, exactly what version of sled 11 do you have? i ask because i just noticed your original post says 'os: sled 11 ' and also there was a post recently by someone saying they'd just bought a laptop with sled 11 pre-loaded and it turned out to be a version of sled 11 that's already end of life. the file cat /etc/suse-release should contain relevant info. current version is sled 11 sp2. sp3 is imminent.
hello, i wannted to thank everyone for helping, especially mikewillis, as his suggestions and code helped me to overcome this issue. i'm surprised that searching doc and docx is not set to default as that's mainly what people what to search in most cases. anway the sollution works good enough for me and the firm, so thank you.
hello, i wannted to thank everyone for helping, especially mikewillis, as his suggestions and code helped me to overcome this issue.
glad to hear you got this working to your satisfaction. did you have to do anything beyond what's mentioned in this thread?
this seems like something that might be worth writing up for suse conversations (https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/) or perhaps promoting to an article, though i'm not actually sure how the latter works.
i'm surprised that searching doc and docx is not set to default as that's mainly what people what to search in most cases.
i don't think .doc and .docx being what people search for in most cases is true in the context of people who use linux. a lot of linux users will avoid them where ever possible. users of an enterprise orientated linux distro are arguably more likely to have to deal with these formats though.


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Please save your game often.
Feel free to use cheat codes. Almost nothing is going to happen if you use them, only that you will not get through the game how it’s supposed to do.
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for decades, the roman empire has been separated into two minor empires, making the decline a lot more easier. they have been falling both military and politically; military by the appearance of hunnic tribes knowing nothing more than to kill and destroy; and politically by the struggle of emperors for power. there is one man, who by the guidance of the gods, will try to unite the two empires into one, giving the romans their last grasp of air.
you will fight as constantine the great, fight against hunnic tribes, fight for power with constantine’s co-emperor licinius. witness constantine’s conversion to christianity, making him the first roman emperor to be converted. and last take part in the byzantines birth by completing the construction of constantinople.
- take control of heroes and several roman units.
settings i tested the game with: difficulty level: moderate or tougher. speed: normal or faster.
it is imperative that you know what the hell is happening. so please read the instructions, history, and hints page for information.
please save your game often.
feel free to use cheat codes. almost nothing is going to happen if you use them, only that you will not get through the game how it’s supposed to do.
brilliant games, probably the best i've played. many thanks.


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how can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past? that’s the role of theory, to look into the future.
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Yes, there is a Sisyphean task here; the labors are joint–crucially, involving both a man and a woman–but seemingly infinite and never-ending anyway. The mystery over why Niki is treated as he is by the villagers is never given a satisfactory solution, and indeed, as in the case of those who counterproductively continue digging in holes, efforts to solve this conundrum only heighten its inexplicability. Bafflement, bewilderment, anger, frustration are Niki’s primary responses, and they are all equally efficacious–that is, they are not in the least.
A perplexed protagonist, a brutal, unrewarding task, an unsolved mystery, the realization that deliverance is not forthcoming; yes, this is an existentialist novel.
There are two interesting embroiderings of these basic existentialist themes in Abe’s novel. First, the novel is set ten years after the end of the Second World War, ten years after hell was dragged up from its depths and deposited on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and thus, on the Japanese nation. This is a world in which the firmness of an older universe has been replaced by the shifting and transient sand of a new relationship with the world; sand, as Abe reminds us, is ‘fragmented rock,’ once solid and imposing, now beaten down. The Japanese, of whom Niki and the woman are as good representatives as any other, might yet be buried by this relentless invader of their older world. Second, Niki is not just any man, any Japanese. He is a schoolteacher, and moreover, he is a man of science. He is an entomologist; he studies sand as well, and is fascinated by its physical properties.
As a man of science, Niki expects his situations in this world to be infected by the same reason he sees underwriting the cosmos. He is, precisely because of this intellectual orientation, unprepared for the villagers’ mysterious, criminal behavior: Why have they kidnapped him? Do they really think they can get away with this absurd plot? The villagers do not care; they are absorbed in their task. The woman does not know and she does not too, seem to care too much. If there is a concern for consequences, it is a narrowly circumscribed one: what will happen if the sand is not kept at bay? This encounter, this futile dashing of the hopes of the man of science that a reasonable explanation will be found for all that afflicts us, that the methods which have made so much of the world comprehensible will make the villagers and their task less mysterious, gives Abe’s novel its most acute sense of desperation and despair.
Much of the fascination of the Inferno revolves around Dante’s probing of the covert psychic recesses of his characters’ inner will. The sinners’ great soliloquies are self-serving and fraught with irony. One cannot take them at their word. One must bring to bear on their speeches a “hermeneutics of suspicion” that is alert to the discrepancy between what they tell us and what they show us. Oftentimes the characters themselves are unaware of the way they are masking their true motivations, which makes it all the more imperative that the reader adopt an analytic distance from their self-presentations. In sum, the Inferno educates the reader in the ways of deception and self-deception, and in that respect remains one of the great archives of human psychology. (‘Dante: The Most Vivid Version‘ New York Review of Books, 24 October 2013).
In my post on the ‘Sisyphus of sorts’ a couple of days ago, I had sought to provide an unmasking of projects of self-improvement, which all too many of us find ourselves engaged in with little hope–based on their persistent failure–of bringing them to completion. (I hesitate to say ‘similar unmasking’ for fear of being viewed as comparing my attempt to Dante’s!) That post–hopefully!–speaks for itself, but let me, at the risk of sounding excessively pompous, just embellish its claims just a bit.
Repeated, and failed, attempts at self-improvement and self-help display a familiar pattern: the old behavior is discarded in a burst of moralistic enthusiasm, the old lifestyle is deprecated and disdained, and enthusiastic reports are provided on the glories and attractions of the new path chosen. There is relief at a millstone discarded and this palpable emotion is loudly and visibly noted.
Yet, through all this, all too often, the attractions of the older way of being, which indeed, had made it such a persistently adopted mode of behavior, are not paid their due. We fail to recognize that that path had its own role to play in the forms of life we lived; we fail to note the deep habits it formed; no clean surgical excision of it from our selves has been effected. And then, there is the simple matter of the ‘sophomore effect’; the rapid gains visible in the early days of our new-found virtuous life are quickly replaced by the far more mundane, glacial increments of the life that comes about when such novel behavior has become commonplace.
We remain impatient; we miss the easy pleasures of the older way of being, which suddenly, now seems more attractive than ever. So we lapse. But now we encounter again its pathologies. And so we resolve to change again.
The self-deception here is that we do not seek the publicly avowed goal of self-improvement, but merely the movement away from a kind of stagnation, a state of wallowing. When we encounter yet another one, as is inevitable, for life cannot give us endless novelty, we seek out our ‘fall’ again, so that we may ‘climb’ again. In doing all this, we are reminded again, of Goethe, Burke and Freud’s claims that happiness, for most, is characterized by novelty and rapid transition, not by persistent, quiescent states.
Here is a familiar enough occurrence: you set off on a journey toward a desired destination, perhaps a state of mind, perhaps a bodily accomplishment, a state of excellence in some manner, shape, form or fashion; you make good time, you travel many miles; you amaze yourself with your speed and the distance covered; you are exhilarated by the heights you now experience; you are no longer bound to the earth, the air is cleaner, more invigorating; you congratulate yourself on your journey thus far; you look back on how far you’ve come, on all those you left behind; the solitude of this seldom traveled road strikes you as splendid; you dare to dream of the now-visible goal.
And then, the upward gradient ceases; the plateau begins; the steps grow more measured, more tedious; the miles covered shrink slowly to yards and inches; the feet drag; the euphoria is gone, replaced by ennui; the formerly clean air is still so, but it has a staleness all its own; the novelty, the thrill, is gone. The goal is still visible, but now obscured by the dust kicked up by your dragging feet; the certainty about its attainment is now replaced by a nagging, persistent, doubt over the wisdom of ever having started this journey. The virtuousness that was once the consequence of declining indulgences now strikes you as a foolishness all of its own; what price this sustained flagellation, this persistent self-denial?
And so, you weaken, you hesitate, you seek diversion, an easier slope. The most facile of those is the path downward, the amble downhill. On it, the pace is greater; the wind presses hard against you, refreshing you once again. Soon enough, you are back in the lowlands. You refuse, guiltily, to look up at the tops again; you declined them once, why remind yourself of that turning away?
But soon, you find the air stifling; the oppression that animated you once returns; all is cumbersome. Whence the lightness, the fleet-footedness you had felt in the highlands? You remember the ascent, the coolness, the euphoria, the shedding of all that was heavy and bore you down. You remember the weightlessness, the sense of endless possibility. You regret the escape, the diversion, the flinching and turning away. You resolve to make the journey again.
And so you set off, rolling your rock back up the hill. Those familiar feelings return; you remember why you thought this was a good idea. You remind yourself the plateau awaits; you await its appearance warily; you stiffen your spine in anticipation. But when it does appear, a familiar feeling, a familiar dismay asserts itself. Soon enough, an old path downward is traversed.
Later, after the disgust of the defeat and the claustrophobia of the lower reaches have sent you back, yet again, on your old ascent, as you head upward, you realize that this is what you really wanted, the exultation of the pulling away, the steepness of the first few steps, the first movements upward. That elusive goal, its shape and location often obscured, only served to motivate the first journey. From then on, what you truly craved was the initial ascension, which had the most acute slopes of all, where you made the most accelerated, tangible progress. Not for you the long plodding, slow, grind to the end; you always only sought only the path that made you feel the most fleet-footed.
You don’t really mind being a Sisyphus of sorts.

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yes, there is a sisyphean task here; the labors are joint–crucially, involving both a man and a woman–but seemingly infinite and never-ending anyway. the mystery over why niki is treated as he is by the villagers is never given a satisfactory solution, and indeed, as in the case of those who counterproductively continue digging in holes, efforts to solve this conundrum only heighten its inexplicability. bafflement, bewilderment, anger, frustration are niki’s primary responses, and they are all equally efficacious–that is, they are not in the least.
a perplexed protagonist, a brutal, unrewarding task, an unsolved mystery, the realization that deliverance is not forthcoming; yes, this is an existentialist novel.
there are two interesting embroiderings of these basic existentialist themes in abe’s novel. first, the novel is set ten years after the end of the second world war, ten years after hell was dragged up from its depths and deposited on hiroshima and nagasaki, and thus, on the japanese nation. this is a world in which the firmness of an older universe has been replaced by the shifting and transient sand of a new relationship with the world; sand, as abe reminds us, is ‘fragmented rock,’ once solid and imposing, now beaten down. the japanese, of whom niki and the woman are as good representatives as any other, might yet be buried by this relentless invader of their older world. second, niki is not just any man, any japanese. he is a schoolteacher, and moreover, he is a man of science. he is an entomologist; he studies sand as well, and is fascinated by its physical properties.
as a man of science, niki expects his situations in this world to be infected by the same reason he sees underwriting the cosmos. he is, precisely because of this intellectual orientation, unprepared for the villagers’ mysterious, criminal behavior: why have they kidnapped him? do they really think they can get away with this absurd plot? the villagers do not care; they are absorbed in their task. the woman does not know and she does not too, seem to care too much. if there is a concern for consequences, it is a narrowly circumscribed one: what will happen if the sand is not kept at bay? this encounter, this futile dashing of the hopes of the man of science that a reasonable explanation will be found for all that afflicts us, that the methods which have made so much of the world comprehensible will make the villagers and their task less mysterious, gives abe’s novel its most acute sense of desperation and despair.
much of the fascination of the inferno revolves around dante’s probing of the covert psychic recesses of his characters’ inner will. the sinners’ great soliloquies are self-serving and fraught with irony. one cannot take them at their word. one must bring to bear on their speeches a “hermeneutics of suspicion” that is alert to the discrepancy between what they tell us and what they show us. oftentimes the characters themselves are unaware of the way they are masking their true motivations, which makes it all the more imperative that the reader adopt an analytic distance from their self-presentations. in sum, the inferno educates the reader in the ways of deception and self-deception, and in that respect remains one of the great archives of human psychology. (‘dante: the most vivid version‘ new york review of books, 24 october 2013).
in my post on the ‘sisyphus of sorts’ a couple of days ago, i had sought to provide an unmasking of projects of self-improvement, which all too many of us find ourselves engaged in with little hope–based on their persistent failure–of bringing them to completion. (i hesitate to say ‘similar unmasking’ for fear of being viewed as comparing my attempt to dante’s!) that post–hopefully!–speaks for itself, but let me, at the risk of sounding excessively pompous, just embellish its claims just a bit.
repeated, and failed, attempts at self-improvement and self-help display a familiar pattern: the old behavior is discarded in a burst of moralistic enthusiasm, the old lifestyle is deprecated and disdained, and enthusiastic reports are provided on the glories and attractions of the new path chosen. there is relief at a millstone discarded and this palpable emotion is loudly and visibly noted.
yet, through all this, all too often, the attractions of the older way of being, which indeed, had made it such a persistently adopted mode of behavior, are not paid their due. we fail to recognize that that path had its own role to play in the forms of life we lived; we fail to note the deep habits it formed; no clean surgical excision of it from our selves has been effected. and then, there is the simple matter of the ‘sophomore effect’; the rapid gains visible in the early days of our new-found virtuous life are quickly replaced by the far more mundane, glacial increments of the life that comes about when such novel behavior has become commonplace.
we remain impatient; we miss the easy pleasures of the older way of being, which suddenly, now seems more attractive than ever. so we lapse. but now we encounter again its pathologies. and so we resolve to change again.
the self-deception here is that we do not seek the publicly avowed goal of self-improvement, but merely the movement away from a kind of stagnation, a state of wallowing. when we encounter yet another one, as is inevitable, for life cannot give us endless novelty, we seek out our ‘fall’ again, so that we may ‘climb’ again. in doing all this, we are reminded again, of goethe, burke and freud’s claims that happiness, for most, is characterized by novelty and rapid transition, not by persistent, quiescent states.
here is a familiar enough occurrence: you set off on a journey toward a desired destination, perhaps a state of mind, perhaps a bodily accomplishment, a state of excellence in some manner, shape, form or fashion; you make good time, you travel many miles; you amaze yourself with your speed and the distance covered; you are exhilarated by the heights you now experience; you are no longer bound to the earth, the air is cleaner, more invigorating; you congratulate yourself on your journey thus far; you look back on how far you’ve come, on all those you left behind; the solitude of this seldom traveled road strikes you as splendid; you dare to dream of the now-visible goal.
and then, the upward gradient ceases; the plateau begins; the steps grow more measured, more tedious; the miles covered shrink slowly to yards and inches; the feet drag; the euphoria is gone, replaced by ennui; the formerly clean air is still so, but it has a staleness all its own; the novelty, the thrill, is gone. the goal is still visible, but now obscured by the dust kicked up by your dragging feet; the certainty about its attainment is now replaced by a nagging, persistent, doubt over the wisdom of ever having started this journey. the virtuousness that was once the consequence of declining indulgences now strikes you as a foolishness all of its own; what price this sustained flagellation, this persistent self-denial?
and so, you weaken, you hesitate, you seek diversion, an easier slope. the most facile of those is the path downward, the amble downhill. on it, the pace is greater; the wind presses hard against you, refreshing you once again. soon enough, you are back in the lowlands. you refuse, guiltily, to look up at the tops again; you declined them once, why remind yourself of that turning away?
but soon, you find the air stifling; the oppression that animated you once returns; all is cumbersome. whence the lightness, the fleet-footedness you had felt in the highlands? you remember the ascent, the coolness, the euphoria, the shedding of all that was heavy and bore you down. you remember the weightlessness, the sense of endless possibility. you regret the escape, the diversion, the flinching and turning away. you resolve to make the journey again.
and so you set off, rolling your rock back up the hill. those familiar feelings return; you remember why you thought this was a good idea. you remind yourself the plateau awaits; you await its appearance warily; you stiffen your spine in anticipation. but when it does appear, a familiar feeling, a familiar dismay asserts itself. soon enough, an old path downward is traversed.
later, after the disgust of the defeat and the claustrophobia of the lower reaches have sent you back, yet again, on your old ascent, as you head upward, you realize that this is what you really wanted, the exultation of the pulling away, the steepness of the first few steps, the first movements upward. that elusive goal, its shape and location often obscured, only served to motivate the first journey. from then on, what you truly craved was the initial ascension, which had the most acute slopes of all, where you made the most accelerated, tangible progress. not for you the long plodding, slow, grind to the end; you always only sought only the path that made you feel the most fleet-footed.
you don’t really mind being a sisyphus of sorts.


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