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Yesterday's posting was incomplete. I had asked S-B. Bootle about "language", if these complex implications concerning "multiplication" might indicate a vision of the universe ( and isn't it ours now a "multiverse" and the "atoms" of yore ever divisible?), the Greek mathematical one, as closed or as originating from reality "One".
He answered: Contrary to Sapir-Whorf, all Natural Languages have spatial and temporal markers.
Here is a VN quote, for the manifold worlds arising from a sheet of paper, from PF and its "plexed artistry", since it seems to relate to a sentence from RLSK:" ... And not only himself, everything would be unravelled -- everything that he might imagine in our childish terms of space and time, both being riddles invented by man as riddles, and thus coming back to us: the boomerangs of nonsense ..."
Here it is:
Just this: not text, but texture; not the dream
But topsy-turvical coincidence,
810 Not flimsy nonsense, but a web of sense.
Yes! It sufficed that I in life could find
Some kind of link-and-bobolink, some kind
Of correlated pattern in the game,
Plexed artistry, and something of the same
Pleasure in it as they who played it found.
BTW: the paper-cutting, with butterfly and predator, belongs to a collection of works entered into a contest, but I have not the name of the museum, nor its author's at hand right now: perhaps Hirshfeld?
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Yesterday's posting was incomplete. I had asked S-B. Bootle about "language", if these complex implications concerning "multiplication" might indicate a vision of the universe ( and isn't it ours now a "multiverse" and the "atoms" of yore ever divisible?), the Greek mathematical one, as closed or as originating from reality "One".
He answered: Contrary to Sapir-Whorf, all Natural Languages have spatial and temporal markers.
Here is a VN quote, for the manifold worlds arising from a sheet of paper, from PF and its "plexed artistry", since it seems to relate to a sentence from RLSK:" ... And not only himself, everything would be unravelled -- everything that he might imagine in our childish terms of space and time, both being riddles invented by man as riddles, and thus coming back to us: the boomerangs of nonsense ..."
Here it is:
Just this: not text, but texture; not the dream
But topsy-turvical coincidence,
810 Not flimsy nonsense, but a web of sense.
Yes! It sufficed that I in life could find
Some kind of link-and-bobolink, some kind
Of correlated pattern in the game,
Plexed artistry, and something of the same
Pleasure in it as they who played it found.
BTW: the paper-cutting, with butterfly and predator, belongs to a collection of works entered into a contest, but I have not the name of the museum, nor its author's at hand right now: perhaps Hirshfeld?
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