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Hiatus
I am going on hiatus from writing here for a little while. I don’t feel like writing and I don’t know what I want to do with the Fish in the Afternoon material yet. I’ll return. Just need to be with my thoughts. Continue reading
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Wildflower
How to keep—is there any any, is there none such, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, lace, latch or catch or key to keep / Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty, … from vanishing away?Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Leaden Echo & the Golden Echo” Ask yourself when time repents precious… Continue reading
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Theophany
This interconnection or accommodation of all created things to each other, and each to all the others, brings it about that each simple substance has relations that express all the others, and consequently, that each simple substance is a perpetual, living mirror of the universe. Gottfried Leibniz, Monadology The basic unit of reality is personhood:… Continue reading
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On Idolatry
Do not make an idol for yourself – no form whatsoever – of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. Do not bow down to them or worship them… Exodus 20.4-5 (CEB) First, we act. Grasp, walk, touch, taste. Then, we sign. “Grasp, walk, touch,… Continue reading
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{∅,{∅}}
The above proposition is occasionally useful. Bertrand Russell & Alfred North Whitehead, Principia Mathematica (below the proof of ‘1 + 1 = 2’) Tentative. Always tentative. Structural and intentional features are conflated to some degree here to reveal their connections and to show how distinct structures generate distinct intentional features. However, more work is needed… Continue reading
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