vector

[Keith Davis]

So, after all this, it seems like a pretty densely packed little phrase. It
seems to designate the object of desire, as well as the intensity of the
desire, and the path that leads to the fulfillment of the desire, all at
once. How does that sound?

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> So following Virgil's value-added vacation through the veil to visionary
> worlds of vice and victory, the exact velocity of the vector of the viral
> vaginal variations of vibration becomes an important measure of meander
> with bigger bugs to bitem and so ad infinitum. This is the very
> morelessness that sum were tingly thinkling. And me2 along withem.
> On May 26, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Joseph Tracy wrote:
>
> > vector |ˈvektər|
> > noun
> > 1 Mathematics & Physics a quantity having direction as well as
> magnitude, esp. as determining the position of one point in space relative
> to another.
> > vector 1
> > Compare with scalar.
> > • Mathematics a matrix with one row or one column.
> > • a course to be taken by an aircraft.
> > • [as adj. ] Computing denoting a type of graphical representation using
> straight lines to construct the outlines of objects.
> > 2 an organism, typically a biting insect or tick, that transmits a
> disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another.
> > • Genetics a bacteriophage or plasmid that transfers genetic material
> into a cell, or from one bacterium to another.
> > verb [ trans. ] (often be vectored)
> > direct (an aircraft in flight) to a desired point.
> >
> > Essentially it can be a direction from a given point alone or can mean
> both direction and object/point of transmission or contact or termination.
> My understanding is that the magnitude can be a distance or a speed of
> travel.
> >
> > On May 25, 2012, at 7:11 PM, Keith Davis wrote:
> >
> >> Only one of many recurring fallacies here in the Deep South.
> >>
> >> On May 25, 2012 7:01 PM, "Alex Colter" <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Ah, good point Jochen, I rush'd to explain the definitions without
> first consulting the Context... terrible fallacy, ever recurring here in
> the American South
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:01 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> 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
> >>
>
>


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