a certain Chinese encyclopedia

animals are divided into:
(a) belonging to the Emporer
(b) embalmed
(c) tame
(d) sucking pigs
(e) sirens
(f) fabulous
(g) stray dogs
(h) included in the present classification
(i) frenzied
(j) innumerable
(k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush
(l) et cetera
(m) having just broken the water pitcher
(n) that from a long way off look like flies.

~ Borges

Six Arts acoording to Kung Tzu

RITUAL

MUSIC

ARCHERY

CHARIOTEERING

CALLIGRAPHY

ARITHMETIC

Nine Muses according to Hesiod

CALLIOPE epic song, wax tablet & pencil

CLIO history, scroll

EUTERPE lyric song, double flute

THALIA comedy & bucolic poetry, mask & ivy & staff

MELPOMENE tragedy, mask & ivy

TERPISCHORE dance, lyre

ERATO erotic poetry, small lyre

POLYMNIA sacred song, veil

URANIA astronomy, celestial globe

EMET! & ting-yin

EMET is the Hebrew word for TRUTH.

The utterance activates the Golem.

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ting-yin

in which the pulse of the blodstream in the fingers of the instrumentalist alters the timbre of the note

on human-o-centrism

If a triangle could speak, it would say that God is eminently triangular.

--Gilles Deleuze