baseball, control

[Gillies, Lindsay]

Thanks...fabulous characterisation.   I'm responding, of course, to the 
point that the mound couldn't *possibly* be about the ancient fertility 
goddesses (per Bonnie) because it has to be a mound because otherwise the 
ball would drop too far (except Nolan Ryan's).  My thought about the pitcher 
was not really that he (?she?) *controlled* the game as that (more in 
keeping with fertility mounds) he initiated a phase.  The pitch, to drop out 
of archetypal *and* computer architecture terms and into the infinite 
poverty of economics, is the intial exogenous variable in the system.

I'd like to pose a larger question.  Clearly TRP is fascinated by and 
knowledgeable about systems, mathematics, thermodynamic, etc.  But isn't he 
using systems as an expository device?  If so, what is he getting at---I'm 
proposing that its not systems per se.  This is crudely obvious, but systems 
themselves get so fascinating that we forget what they're for, both vis a 
vis "users" and perhaps among ourselves "readers".

just a pebble in the pool,
lcg