[MD] now it comes

[MarshaV]

On Aug 12, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Krimel wrote:

> [Marsha]
> I visualize a pattern of value like a galaxy, where the most commonly 
> shared aspect of a pattern are clustered more densely in the middle, 
> while the less commonly held aspects of the pattern, for whatever 
> reason, are on the peripheral.  
> 
> [Krimel]
> Sort of, although I would phrase it differently. I recently claimed, with
> this sort of thing in mind, that a "better" set of metaphysical "levels"
> would be trunk, limb, branch, leaf. That is how patterns form in the "real"
> world and in our conceptions of it. That in fact is how all of our thoughts
> and feelings are encoded in the fractal structure of our nervous systems. It
> is all areas of dense flow surrounded by fractual streams and branches.

Marsha:
I was considering mostly individually named patterns, not 
the levels which do no interest me as much.


> Case once put it this way:
> 
> Strokes of lightning slash the skies
> In their flash the darkness dies
> The fractured lines of time and fate
> Inscribe the shape of love and hate.
> 
> A coin in spin...
> Head chasing tails
> To see that other side...
> It fails.
> 
> When things don't cleave, they shatter
> All the pieces scatter
> Distinctions that should matter
> Blend in gray
> 
> Facets twitch and twinkle
> Perspective shifts in every wrinkle
> Edges that define dissolve upon a touch.
> In or out's the question.
> Does it matter much?
> 
> Each tick
> Each tock
> All rhythms
> Mock
> 
> Such things don't cleave, they shatter
> All the pieces scatter.
> Distinctions that should matter turn to gray.
> 
> And yet, in every spot of gray
> We see that white and black still play.



Marsha:
I'd raise my hand for Case as an unrecognized poetic genius, and dmb 
as the delusional hack, or at least a generally mean person.
 
 
 
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