a Plist thematic trope....

[Danny Weltman]

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“What’s this?” Cyprian said.

“Map of Austria-Hungary.”

“Oh. Do I get a magnifying lens with it?”
“What’s the scale here?” muttered Bevis.

Theign squinted at the legend. “Seems to be one to fifty million, if I’ve
counted the naughts correctly.”

“A bit too naughty for me,” Cyprian muttered.

“Not at all, perfect for the traveler, last thing one would want I’d
imagine, to be out in the open somewhere struggling in a fierce mountain
wind with some gigantic volume of mile-to-the-inch sheets.”

“But this thing is too small to be of use to anyone. It’s a toy.”

“Well. I mean it’s good enough for the F.O., isn’t it. This happens to be
the very map they use. Decisions of the utmost gravity, fates of empires
including our own, all on the basis of this edition before you, Major B.F.
Vumb, Royal Engineers, 1901.”

“It would certainly explain a good deal about the F.O.,” Cyprian staring at
the map bleakly. “Look at Vienna and Sarajevo, they’re not even half an
inch apart, there isn’t even room here to spell out their names, all it
says is ‘V’ and ‘S.’”
“Exactly. Puts the whole thing literally in a different perspective,
doesn’t it… almost godlike as you’d say.”

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 8:07 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> A common Eastern way to measure/perceive/describe Reality is to use double
> naught adjectives.  The "Naught/notNaught" adjective is the most slippery
> kind. It isn't this thing/concept, but it isn't not that thing/concept.
> "Is-ness" is only understood as a paradox, and only experienced by
> spiritual (real) channels. Every Eastern description is first negated, but
> that negation is also negated.  The goal of that spiritual path is to
> always question ones's perception of Reality as an invitation for a higher
> inherent reality to emerge, almost a paradox -embracing madness, Ultimate
> Reality.  A challenging path, to say the least.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Thursday, August 6, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote
>>
>> _________________________________________________________________________
>>
>> Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski ([kɔˈʐɨpski]; July 3, 1879 – March 1,
>> 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar
>
>
>
>> He thought that certain uses of the verb "to be", called the "is
>> of identity" and the "is of predication", were faulty in structure, e.g., a
>> statement such as, "Elizabeth is a fool" (said of a person
>> named "Elizabeth" who has done something that we regard as foolish).
>> In Korzybski's system, one's assessment of Elizabeth belongs to a
>> higher order of abstraction than Elizabeth herself. Korzybski's remedy was
>> to deny identity; in this example, to be aware continually that "Elizabeth"
>> is not what we call her. We find Elizabeth not in the verbal domain, the
>> world of words, but the nonverbal domain (the two, he said, amount to
>> different orders of abstraction). This was expressed by Korzybski's most
>> famous premise, "the map is not the territory". Note that this premise uses
>> the phrase "is not", a form of "to be"; this and many other examples show
>> that he did not intend to
>> abandon "to be" as such. In fact, he said explicitly[citation
>> needed] that there were no structural problems with the verb "to be" when
>> used as an auxiliary verb or when used to state existence or location.
>> It was even acceptable at times to use the faulty forms of the verb
>> "to be," as long as one was aware of their structural limitations.
>>
>
>
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