"Time for you to see the field." — Bagger Vance
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
In Memoriam: Jan Saxl, Mathematician
For the conference, see
https://www.birs.ca/events/2009/5-day-workshops/09w5030 .
For the Church of Synchronology:
“Time for you to see the field.” (Posts now tagged “For Banff 2009”)
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
Simple
From "110 in the Shade" —
A quote from "Marshall, Meet Bagger," July 29, 2011:
"Time for you to see the field."
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From a Log24 search for "To See the Field" —
For further details, see the 1985 note
"Generating the Octad Generator."
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Thursday, August 24, 2017
Maori Chess, Vol. 2
This just in …
"Genesis Potini died of a heart attack aged 46
on the 15th August 2011."
The 15th of August in New Zealand overlapped
the 14th of August in the U.S.A.
From a Log24 post, "Sunday Review," on August 14, 2011 —
Part II (from "Marshall, Meet Bagger," July 29):
"Time for you to see the field."
For further details, see the 1985 note
"Generating the Octad Generator."
McLuhan was a Toronto Catholic philosopher.
For related views of a Montreal Catholic philosopher,
see the Saturday evening post.
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Monday, May 26, 2014
Springtime for Vishnu
… Continues.
A post by Margaret Soltan this morning:
Links (in blue) from the above post:
Cane and Mondo Cane.
Bagger Vance — “Time for you to see the field.”
From Pictures for Kurosawa (Sept. 6, 2003) —
“As these flowing rivers that go towards the ocean,
when they have reached the ocean, sink into it,
their name and form are broken, and people speak of
the ocean only, exactly thus these sixteen parts
of the spectator that go towards the person (purusha),
when they have reached the person, sink into him,
their name and form are broken, and people speak of
the person only, and he becomes without parts and
immortal. On this there is this verse:
‘That person who is to be known, he in whom these parts
rest, like spokes in the nave of a wheel, you know him,
lest death should hurt you.’ “
— Prasna Upanishad
Related material — Heaven’s Gate images from Xmas 2012:
“This could be heaven or this could be hell.” — Hotel California
Those who prefer mathematics to narrative may consult Root Circle.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Putting the X in…
See For David Lavery and the prequel Art Isn't Easy.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Meet Max Black (continued)
Background— August 30, 2006—
In the 2006 post, the above seventh symbol 110000 was
interpreted as the I Ching hexagram with topmost and
next-to-top lines solid, not broken— Hexagram 20, View .
In a different interpretation, 110000 is the binary for the decimal
number 48— representing the I Ching's Hexagram 48, The Well .
“… Max Black, the Cornell philosopher, and
others have pointed out how ‘perhaps every science
must start with metaphor and end with algebra, and
perhaps without the metaphor there would never
have been any algebra’ ….”
– Max Black, Models and Metaphors,
Cornell U. Press, 1962, page 242, as quoted
in Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors,
by Victor Witter Turner, Cornell U. Press,
paperback, 1975, page 25
The algebra is certainly clearer than either I Ching
metaphor, but is in some respects less interesting.
For a post that combines both the above I Ching
metaphors, View and Well , see Dec. 14, 2007.
In memory of scholar Elinor Ostrom,
who died today—
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
The Field
"Time for you to see the field." —Bagger Vance
This post was suggested by a link from a post
in this journal seven years ago yesterday—
“Is the language of thought
any more than a dream?“
— Rimbaud
Yes.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Entertainment*
From a film released Friday, April 13th, 2012—
"Time for you to see the field." — Bagger Vance, as quoted here yesterday.
* Title courtesy of David Foster Wallace.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Field
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Language Game
Related material—
Yesterday, 3:33 PM, in this journal— "Time for you to see the field"— and…
Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury , opening paragraph of part two, "June Second, 1910"—
"When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight oclock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly, and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
See also Willard Van Orman Quine in this journal on August 15, 2009—
"A tale told by an idiot"— and such a tale—
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Sunday, August 14, 2011
Sunday Review
The Sunday New York Times today—
This suggests…
The Elusive Small Idea—
Part I:
McLuhan and the Seven Snow Whites
Part II (from "Marshall, Meet Bagger," July 29):
"Time for you to see the field."
For further details, see the 1985 note
"Generating the Octad Generator."
McLuhan was a Toronto Catholic philosopher.
For related views of a Montreal Catholic philosopher,
see the Saturday evening post.
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Marshall, Meet Bagger
Marshall McLuhan writing to Ezra Pound on Dec. 21, 1948—
"The American mind is not even close to being amenable to the ideogram principle as yet. The reason is simply this. America is 100% 18th Century. The 18th century had chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy— the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD. It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still verboten. This amounts to deep occultation of nearly all human thought for the U.S.A.
I am trying to devise a way of stating this difficulty as it exists. Until stated and publicly recognized for what it is, poetry and the arts can’t exist in America."
"Time for you to see the field." —Bagger Vance
The field — See June 2010.
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