PAST RECALCITRANT

father thomas says first act second act ... we say potential actual ... faculty operation ... noun verb ... subject predicate ... this is me as I am this is me doing ... so I wonder if to fit our vocabulary of dispute we haven't been sent this one too ... matter and mind ... wouldn't father thomas agree ... it's the particular form that gives a possibility its act ... matter could be here or there now or later ... that's why we ask what's the matter ... we're really asking can you pin it down ... give it a particular form so I know it's real ... at the bottom of the form you can read a little tag ... almost all of them say passed ... some say a long time ago ... you'd think they'd still be restless and try to get away or at least they'd fade a little ... you couldn't hold them in their present mode ... now they don't seem to want to budge ... but if you turn round and look forward even so often their reflection will not serve ... nonetheless they've got you in their picture frame grip ... you forget what was it you meant to do