tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184479162011-11-14T18:01:23.694-06:00Encyclopedias . Language . Antipodes . Pattern Proliferation<br> & Sightings of the Mother of All MysteriesJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.comBlogger811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-4937000327288136142011-03-29T12:55:00.004-05:002011-06-08T21:50:47.799-05:00

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Of course a fool lives by aphorism alone. If this one was written by a true believer or the Fruit Grower's Association, I do not know, but Chiquita Banana has trademarked the line that bananas are quite possibly nature's perfect food. Houston mail carrier Jeff McKissack was motivated only on his faith in the orange. He built a monument to the fruit.  (

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Confucious had his Six Arts.  Roberta Smith identified six forms of contemporary installation art.  Krishna has them both beat, more than ten times over, with the Kalā, a Hindu catalog of the 64 arts.  As extensive as they come. The Goddess Meenakshi is the upasana murthi, or Hindu patron deity of the fine arts.  Her little parrot knows each of the 64 Kalā and can recite them for you. I have

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Three different words for three different kinds of gibberish, a simple path to primordial pasts, perhaps a link to the divine: lalation: "ga ga goo goo gaa ga" (babytalk) embolalia: "um...uh...um....errr..." (meaningless syllables) glossolalia: "ehbu ondu wan akka rar" (speaking in tongues, and similar phenomenon) "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in

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British administrative researcher and management theorist Meredith Belbin described nine archetypes for the roles played by members of project teams. Belbin's 1981 book, Management Teams, describes this model in depth, and later publications revised it. A good management team generally contains at least one person for each role; however, there are particular tasks for which other combinations

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Representative writings from three intentional, nearly-autonomous, common-creed communities of the 17th Century. DIGGER The Diggers were perhaps first and foremost a social justice movement in that their membership was comprised of landless common folk determined to work and farm common lands in the English countryside, claiming this was their God-given right, and their only escape from the

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The J. Craig Venter Institute this year managed to build a complete genome sequence--artificial DNA-- and install it into a bacterial cell. The strand took over operations of its host cell and began reproducing. Many have claimed that this event might be remembered as a major step toward artificial life. There is something sinister about the entire enterprise, to me at least, but there is one

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We've conducted a thorough survey, and, of the forty-three men who have served as President of the United States, only five wore beards. That's less that 12 percent. Abraham Lincoln was the first, and the other four were all amongst the seven office holders that consecutively followed him. Another three U.S. Presidents wore moustaches, all during those three decades that followed Lincoln.Only two

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The ego is ultimately derived from bodily sensations, chiefly those springing from the surface of the body. --Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1936. People's bodies were my biggest technical problem from the start. --Allan Kaprow, A happening conversation with AK DATA 16/17, 1975.

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Ancient Chinese science is abundant with five-point taxonomies, based upon an evaluation of and categorization based upon inherent essence, or Qi. In each case, disparate phenomenon are grouped together and considered interrelated because of their similar Qi-based traits, with certain qualities corresponding portably across systems. Zou Yan, a scholar from the 3rd Century BCE, is sometimes

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Sea level in not a place; it is an ideal that assumes still seas, unmoved by tides, enwrapping a perfectly spherical planet, damping the shores of immobile continents. Neither are the seas' distribution uniform nor our globe near regular. The ocean, you'll see on certain days, makes no distinction between itself and the atmosphere; the horizon is a haze; there is no surface. Our scrutiny is

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Each human culture develops its own set of categories and classifications for the natural world. Linnaeus classified the raccoon, for instance, as a bear, placing it in the genus Ursus. The raccoon was later moved to its own genus, Procyon, which means "dog-like" though many people think of them as rodents, more closely associated with a badger, opossom or weasel. Before European contact, some

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Timothy Leary theorized eight functionally distinct circuits in the nervous and neurological system. I interpret them through Robert Anton Wilson from a site sent by Magoo.Not surprisingly, Leary was quite specific regarding which drugs (and, to be fair, other mind-altering activities) one can take to achieve consciousness of these separate "mind-circuits." Safe bet he was under the influence

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Benjamin Franklin kept a notebook of charts throughout his life in which he recorded his daily transgressions of thirteen virtues. His discipline included the choice of one virtue each week, upon which to focus his energies during his daily business. The record shows that he had trouble when it came to Silence and Order. We know he failed Chastity later in life; and a reputation accompanied by

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The beetle, Abax ater, secretes monomeric methyl methacrylate. This material instantly polymerizes, immobilizing the beetle's enemies by encasing them in what is essentially chemically identical to plexiglass.The first plastic invented by humans was cellulose nitrate, the formulation of which was discovered by accident in a chemist's kitchen. The ivory market was one of the first to be

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Oscar Ichazo, Claudio Naranjo, his student, Robert Ochs, and G. I. Gurdjieff separately offered developments to this model for the nine archetypical forms of human personality. The Enneagram, below, maps these personalities according to their relationships to each other.1. Reformers, Judges, Perfectionists2. Helpers, Givers, Caretakers3. Achievers, Performers, Status Seekers4. Romantics,

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According to education researcher Howard Gardener and those who have followed his lead, each of us is a collection of eight independent intelligences. Linguistic : sensitivity to the spoken word Logical-mathematical : capacity to analyze and determine patterns Musical : performance, composition and appreciation Bodily-kinesthetic : problem-solving with the body Spatial : recognition of patterns

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A remake side-by-side with the original (Man With a Movie Camera), by Vertov.Dziga Vertov translates to English, "The Humming Top," a nom de guerre chosen by the filmmaker following his early experiments in recording and editing rhythmic sound collages he called the 'Laboratory of Hearing.'

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from Outer Atmosphere to Ocean DeepMagnetosphere -- wisps of magnetic pullExosphere -- the air is evanscent, atoms of it almost never bumpThermosphere -- radiation, ionization, electrification, and a constant hummingMesosphere -- atmospheric tides and gravity surfStratosphere -- calm and coolTroposphere -- all the winds in all the leaves of all the trees and grasses+++ Planetary Boundary +++

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Here, quoted, Roberta Smith:...Mr. Hirst’s latest controversial artwork, the diamond-encrusted platinum skull shown in London this summer. It seems like the perfect summation of our wasteful, high-priced, oblivious moment, an implicitly regal 21st-century equivalent of Cellini’s gold saltcellar.Here, now, Kandinsky:Art is not a vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be

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From the opening of section 4.3 of Hardt and Negri's Empire, 2000.(Downloadable 1.3M version: http://www.infoshop.org/texts/empire.pdf)The great masses need a material religion of the senses [eine sinnliche Religion]. Not only the great masses but also the philosopher needs it. Monotheism of reason and the heart, polytheism of the imagination and art, this is what we need . . . [W]e must have a

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A friend submitted this list of cognitive biases. Following the list is my imperfect retelling of a favorite Chuang Tzu tale. 1. Bandwagon effect - the tendency to do (or believe) thingsbecause many other people do (or believe) the same. Relatedto groupthink, herd behaviour, and manias. Carl Jung pioneeredthe idea of the collective unconscious which is considered byJungian psychologists to be

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We lost Grandmother and old dog Hambone last week.

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These two things share particular mathematical qualities.

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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

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Today we know the heavens are not fixed, but in a state of ongoing motion. Physicists today talk of an infinite, gradient web of vectors, matter under the influence of four or five distinct tendencies, at the entire range of scales. As evidence, our age-old quest to measure and predict the precise movement of our planet, to know the length of a day, is continually confounded by variations in

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Two examples of Post-Modernism from very Pre-Modern times: The Voynich Manuscript Nobody has ever decyphered the glyphs that fill the pages of the undateable Voynich Manuscript, leading some scholars to conclude its hundreds of pages are just dense gibberish. It could be an encyclopedia from an alternate Earth, with fantastic botanical and astronomical studies and revelations.  The colorful

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The Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity, written by a mysterious band of philosophers in 10th Century Basra in what is now Iraq. It is generally considered the original encyclopedia."...to shun no science, scorn any book, or to cling fanatically to no single creed. For [their] own creed encompasses all the others and comprehends all the sciences generally. This creed is the consideration of

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It is important to keep the distinctions between complexity and chaos clear.Chaos is the path followed by a rubber ball thrown into a grove of trees.A simple act yields crazily random results.Complexity is the state of contemporary fashionbeing the grand sum of everybody buying clothing.

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The geosphere includes all the lifeless things of the universe. The dust, rocks, fireballs, and icycles.The biosphere refers to those things in the cosmos that are living. It is said that the geosphere gives rise to the biosphere.The noosphere is the realm of the human mind. It suggests a topography of human reason and belief, complete with the graceful beaches and rocky coastlines in between.

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Hoorah for Roberta Smith, Arts columnist for the NYTimes, for finally redefining and rearranging the boxes into which we divide this culture's post-postmodern, post-medium art! She did so in today's review of goings-on in Chelsea.I paraphrase:Messy : food and drink and maybe spray paint allowedClean : no food and drink allowedFull : art comprised of lots of thingsFuller : work that

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Add to these definitions of the word "gallery" the model name of our Frigidaire front-loading washing machine.1 . spectators in a tennis match2 . a long porch or veranda3 . rooms for art exhibition4 . covered corridor or hallway5 . nearly horizontal passageway in a mine6 . decorative upright molding on the edge of a table or tray7 . narrow outdoor balcony8 . passageway over the aisle of a

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Both of these quotations are from today's New York Times Opinion pages."Not since the Roaring Twenties have the rich been so much richer than everyone else. In 2005, the latest year for which figures are available, the top 1 percent of Americans — whose average income was $1.1 million a year — received 21.8 percent of the nation’s income, their largest share since 1929. Over all, the top 10

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EMET is the Hebrew word for TRUTH.The utterance activates the Golem..................................................................ting-yinin which the pulse of the bloodstream in the fingers of the guqin instrumentalist alters the timbre of the note

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Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher, mathematician, scientist, author of such works as "How to Make Your Thoughts Clear," formulator of the Maxim of Pragmaticism, and a lifelong friend of William James, in 1867 presented a paper entitled "On a New List of Categories" to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, published the following year, in which he laid the groundwork for a Theory

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RITUAL MUSIC ARCHERY CHARIOTEERING CALLIGRAPHY ARITHMETIC

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The notion of five senses is both overly simple and untrue.  The human body actually possesses the ability to sense at least twenty-two distinct impressions.  We can categorize these into five groups according to the nature of that which is being sensed. electromagentic waves COLOR BRIGHTNESS HEAT or infrared waves POSITION within electrical/magnetic fields, as birds use for migration, and

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The Multitudinous Self: There is an individual, here, a kaleidoscope of personality & identity.Relativism, Right On: Like little bumper cars, we are.We Serve Each Other: Who I am to you, I pledge, is first a source for Love. I am your neighbor and I want to help alleviate your sadness the way that you alleviate mine.A Distrust of History, both Past and Future & That Judgement, especially, is

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Future Worker Girl and I detected these three abberations at the Dan Flavin building during a recent visit to the Menil Collection:Fire extinguisher on the floor, large rust-pattern on auxillary door, & a chink in the sheetrock exposing the head of a drywall screw near one of the sculptures.

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1. Decide you must2. Develop deep respect for feather bone and claw3. Place your trembling thumb where the heart will be:for one hundred hours watch so you will know where to put the first feather.4. Stay awake forever,When the bird takes shapegently pry open its beakand whisper into it: "mouse"5. Let it go -- Kathleen Lynch

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Somebody estimated that 90 percent of the Earth's biomass lives underground, in the form of bacteria. Pound for pound, nine times more life lives in the dirt than up here where we typically think of life as living. Bacteria have been found in oil resevoirs four miles below the Earth's surface. You pick the most inhospitable places you can imagine--the 650 degree waters boiling out of vents at

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There is one simple Divinity found in all things, everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.Giordano Bruno, from The Expulsion of the Triumphant BeastHerein, perhaps, lies the secret: to bring into

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Solar cells shaped like blades of grassinstead of sheets of ice.Because the shape of grass is a Nature-perfected topography for gathering sunlight. Ice couldn't be more opposite. Yet solar panels look like big sheets of black ice.

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hecho poético "poetic fact"sentipensante "thinking with the heart"While thinking with the mind will lead one to Understanding, thinking with the heart leads one to Fearlessness.

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ArtInfo interview, 17 February 2006João Ribas: You’ve been very critical of that line of British art, particularly its overemphasis on very sophisticated or conceptual things. Billy Childish: Well, I don’t think it is sophisticated at all. The problem is it’s pseudo-sophisticated and it’s actually even pseudo-conceptual. There isn’t any concept other than calling something that isn’t art, art.

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Gilbert Sorrentino listed his "artistic necessities" in his 1983 writing "Genetic Coding":an obsessive concern with formal structurea dislike of the replication of experiencea love of digression and embroiderya great pleasure in false or ambiguous informationa desire to invent problems that only the invention of new forms can solvea joy in making mountains out of molehills

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Plato felt the best harmony was one that "imitates the utterances and accents of a brave man engaged in warfare."In "The Politics," Aristotle wrote: "Any musical innovation is full of danger to the whole state, and ought to be prohibited . . . when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them."In 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini instituted Iran's first ban against

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Dave-E says the Military Industrial Complex and the Meritocracy of Ideas do not have to form a dichotomy, implying that both concepts can co-exist, and contradicting his position from the evening before. I don't know what these big ideas mean, so I've looked them up.Former Vice-President Al Gore used the phrase, "Meritocracy of Ideas," in a media conference address in 2005. http://

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Stenochlaena: Climbing Fern65 million years ago, a meteor named Chicxulub struck Mesoamerica, wiping out 95 percent of the living things in North America. The first species to propogate the sterile clay was an ancestor of the Malaysian Climbing Fern that now covers entire islands in the South Pacific.North America was almost entirely covered in climbing fern for tens of thousands of years.

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An Origin of Life assumes that at some deep, ancient time, Life did not exist.That Life struggled forth from a miraculous -- or non-miraculous -- alignment of ecological variables, Then Life must one day twinkle and fade, stars in the dawn of the day that one of those variables wavers or zips away!But, does not our very existence prove the inevitable potential of Life; Life as Eternal as

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Natura Naturans! Natura Naturans!Natura Naturans! Natura Naturans!Rejoice, fellow creature!All is ours!Rejoice, fellow creature!All is ours!I want no part of any other End of the World!Natura Naturans! Natura Naturans!Natura Naturans! Natura Naturans!Rejoice, fellow creature!All is ours!Rejoice, fellow creature!All is ours!I want no part of any other End of the World![origin forgotten]

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...to their computer overlords:********************Fresh AirClean WaterSelf RelianceSelf Expression********************

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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love,I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal!1 Corinthians 13 verse 1

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In architecture, an OVOLO is a round, convex moulding. In Roman work it is usually a quarter circle in section; in Greek work it is flatter, and is equivalent to the echinus; that is, it has in section the elastic curve of the shell of the sea urchin. In mediaeval architecture it is not distinguishable from the multitude of convex mouldings, of all sections, which are used.In building, a QUIRK is

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Nature asks 5 Custom says 7 Lazy takes 9 The wicked, 11.

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A thin veneer of immediate reality is spread over natural and artificial matter, and whoever wishes to remain in the now, with the now, on the now, should please not break its tension film. Otherwise the inexperienced miracle worker will find themselves no longer walking on water but descending upright among staring fish.-Vladimir Nabakov

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All things in constant motion.Position is a relationship between two things, never a value independent.Because nothing stands still,A fixed point can only be the Eye of God.

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1848: "Year of Revolutions." Starting in France, European countries are swept up in revolution, none of which succeed, most of which end bloodily. The anti-slavery Free Soil Party divides the Democratic Party and slave-holding career soldier Zachary Taylor is elected president of the U.S..1876: Western Union has a profound influence on the election of Rutherford Hayes as U.S. President, who

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Torniamo all antico,e sar a un progresso.We go back to the ancient,and that will be a step forward.

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So the task is to produce "dissensus," for transforming ourselves not into self-acclaimed walking corpses, but into sacrificial victims for a ritual devoted to the reestablishment of contradictory experiences, which is what culture should be about.~ Francesco Bonami Parkett No.69Which is what Francesco Bonami thinks culture should be about. I'm happy to join in if it looks like fun.

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Equal temperament reminds one of the truth; just intonation is the truth.----------- LaMonte YoungSound can do a lot of things--sound can wash clothes.-----------Sun Ra

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SENTIPENSANTEthinking with the heartFeelings and thoughts operating in perfect concert.The word was first used by Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan author, quoting some fishermen on the South American coast.AEVITERNITYa state of temporal presence that lies outside of time...and therefore outside of the changing universe.The concept comes from Christian mythology, as the celestial home of angels.

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A MONK is a dark area on a printed page, caused by uneven inking of a plate or type. The term derives from the pre-printing press days of Europe, when publishing consisted of monks, hand-copying texts, and the occasional splotches of ink were inevitable.HOLIDAYS are light spots in a coat of paint. As it was explained to me, it comes from the good-humored sentiment, "The painter must have been

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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

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RITUALMUSICARCHERYCHARIOTEERINGCALLIGRAPHYARITHMETIC

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CALLIOPE epic song, wax tablet & pencilCLIO history, scrollEUTERPE lyric song, double fluteTHALIA comedy & bucolic poetry, mask & ivy & staffMELPOMENE tragedy, mask & ivyTERPISCHORE dance, lyreERATO erotic poetry, small lyrePOLYMNIA sacred song, veilURANIA astronomy, celestial globe

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EMET is the Hebrew word for TRUTH.The utterance activates the Golem..................................................................ting-yinin which the pulse of the blodstream in the fingers of the instrumentalist alters the timbre of the note

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

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Spend all time in wandering stateunintentionally in-incomprehensiblemaze corridor.A node is found.Convincing as center. From here, the spokes.The Illusion of the Central Node is reborn.This one reads:"To maintain production level is equal to spiritual attainment."By what shades & tempers shall we know you?Are you Destined or are you Developing a Purpose?No conscious worries. Surrender

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The Buddhist Incalculable:1 followed by 352 septillions of kilometers of zerosallowing that one zero occupies a length of one-thousandth of a meterand being the length of one life of the universe----------------------------------Planck's Constant:6.6260693 x 10-34 Joule seconds(very small)This number is used in calculations derived from the observation of subatomic physics. If a different number

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Tao Te Ching Chapter 16Attain utmost emptiness.Abide by sincere tranquility.The 10000 things circulate.I contemplate only the Return.For, flourishing as they do,each thing returns to its source.Returning to the source is called tranquility.This is what is meant by “returning to Nature.”Returning to nature is acceptance of constancy.Accepting constancy is enlightenment.Not accepting constancy

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1. Bangs, thunderclaps, explosions, etc.2. Whistles, hisses, snorts.3. Whispers, murmurs, rustling, gurgling.4. Screams, shrieks, buzzing, crackling, sounds produced by friction.5. Sounds produced by striking metal, wood, stone, china, etc.6. Animal & human cries -- roars, howls, laughter, sobs, sighs, etc.~Luigi Russolo

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electromagentic wavesCOLORBRIGHTNESSHEAT or infrared wavesPOSITION within electrical/magnetic fields, as birds use for migration, and platypus and cows sense proximity of electric linesmolecular vibrationsSOUND through ears and through bodyRAYLEIGH WAVES seismic waves through Pancinian corpusclechemicalsSMELLPHEROMONES chemicals emitted by an organism that indicate levels of agressiveness,

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If the whole world was covered with asphalt, a crack would form, and in that crack, grass would grow.--Ilya Ehrenberg

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I have only one path to teach and the path is love.I use love as a razor to scrape away the scarsleftover from the ego's wars with the heart--KALIA keloid is a fiborous proliferation of scar tissue following trauma or surgical incision. From the French, kéloïde, from the Greek, khl, meaning claw, plus the Greek -oeids, from eidos, meaning shape or form.

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Robert Symmer proposed the terms RESINOUS and VITREOUS for the two states of electrical energy, designated NEGATIVE and POSITIVE, respectively, by Benjamin Franklin.Franklin is widely accepted as having gotten it backwards. The (-) side of a battery actually has excess charge and the (+) side of the battery is vacant.But Ben not only got it wrong, condemning us users of electricity for centuries

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example:the corn bunting v. the pileated tinamou

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adapted from Columbia Encyclopedia:circa 1768–1854, American cabinetmaker, born in Scotland.He emigrated to America c.1783, settling at Albany, N.Y., where he was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker. In the early 1790s he established a shop in New York City for the production of furniture; after several moves he finally settled in Partition St. (later changed to Fulton St.), employing over a hundred

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Scottish family recipe.half cup + 2 tablespoons of flourhalf teaspoon salt2 eggs1 cup milkMIX ... POUR into well-oiled pan (hint: use meat grease!) ... let SIT for half an hour ... BAKE at 450 ºF until BROWN

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from Wu Ch’eng-en, ca. 1500 - ca. 1582, based on ancient Chinese folklore, and translated by Arthur WaleyKing of the Mountain of Flowers & Fruit, Disciple Aware of Vacuity, Great Sage, Equal to Heaven; having been made King of the Monkeys for his brave curiosity; having been taught the way of immortality and flight, as well as the trick of the Earthly Conclusion, which involves seventy-two kinds

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On Sound Recorded to Magnetic TapeFLUTTER: short speed variation creates garbled soundWOW: low frequency speed variation creates wavering pitch, especially in sustained tones

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Base Resonance of the Earth

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