vector

[jochen stremmel]

I don't see Desire as an object/target. (What would that make of
l'objet du désir, meaning the object where Desire is headed?)

I wrote: Cherrycoke is speaking of the "Object we wish to examine".
And DePugh, home from Cambridge, answers with the words Keith was
asking about "A Vector of Desire". And "of Desire", in that case, is a
genitivus subjectivus, in other words: the Vector.


2012/5/25 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> LED's then? Mason surely knew of them. Did Mason write MD?
>
> The basic difference between your interpretation and mine is that you
> see Desire as an object/target.  I see Desire as an acting, moving
> force.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:50 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Don't mention it, Keith. But reviewing my mail I see that I should've
>> written: l'objet du désir. Computer graphics obviously made no sense for Mason&Dixon and DePugh but "a quantity having direction as well as magnitude" did.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Jochen