AtD translation: masses

[Mike Jing]

Thanks all for responding.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 11:59 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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