AtD translation: masses

[Mark Kohut]

The paragraphs around it, esp the paragraph before it, reinforces this
perspective when it is written
that seeing the Balkans as separate is enough to drive one to screaming, I
believe the the text says,
only as One can one see them.....(paraphrased)

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 11:54 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Of course you have found one meaning that was surely intended, but remember
> the word “relevant” is the modifier.  When one looks at a work of art, a
> painting, the connoisseur advises one to step backwards, just like this,
> until the details blurr a bit.  You are even told to squint your eyes, so
> that you intentionally lose focus, in order to “see” an abstracted
> version.  A Gestalt understanding of what you are looking at.
>
> “Gestalt psychology, gestaltism or configurationism is a school of
> psychology that emerged in the early twentieth century in Austria and
> Germany as a theory of perception that was a rejection of basic principles
> of Wilhelm Wundt's and Edward Titchener's elementalist and structuralist
> psychology.”
>
> Gestalt psychologists emphasized that organisms perceive entire patterns or
> configurations, not merely individual components. The view is sometimes
> summarized using the adage, "the whole is more than the sum of its parts."
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 1:33 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > P689.29-35   "The railroads seem to be the key. If one keeps looking at
> the
> > map while walking slowly backward across the room, at a certain precise
> > distance the structural principle leaps into visibility—how the different
> > lines connect, how they do not, where varying interests may want them to
> > connect, all of this defining patterns of flow, not only actual but also
> > invisible, potential, and such rates of change as how quickly one’s
> > relevant masses can be moved to a given frontier . . .
> >
> > Is this what the word "masses" mean here:
> >
> > *b.* *Military*. A close formation of troops, *esp.* one in which the
> > battalions, etc., are arranged one behind another.
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