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[David Morris]

I like to think it means Desire is a heat seeking missile.

On Saturday, May 26, 2012, Keith Davis wrote:

> 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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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 <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> '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 <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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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