I love these analogies. The idea of a network that we weave. And how things accumulate layer by layer.
Recently I was writing about the word “explain” and how it comes from “plain”, or making something flat. I was originally thinking that to “form meaning” is the opposite, to make not a plain but a mountain, layer by layer.
When I read your quote about dropping something, I wondered what does it imply for my metaphor. Can we remove layers and start over? Is that maybe a hidden meaning to explain? To reduce, not to the essence, but to nothing?
I think of meanings as something like the possibilities for interaction. Depending on the structure of the cultural web you catch the world into different meaning will arise. A meaning of a cup could be a warm drink, a holy communion or a trash to sort out.
Absolutely beautiful line, that really hits home for me.
bzzzzzz!!
fly sounds!
flies are quite lateral, so now I'm thinking about the symbolic meaning of my flypaper.
wide, regular, sticky, german, eco-friendly and totally avoided by flies.
but wait, one has managed to accept the offering. and the vibrations were actually strong.
BZZZT! then, silence.
I love these analogies. The idea of a network that we weave. And how things accumulate layer by layer.
Recently I was writing about the word “explain” and how it comes from “plain”, or making something flat. I was originally thinking that to “form meaning” is the opposite, to make not a plain but a mountain, layer by layer.
When I read your quote about dropping something, I wondered what does it imply for my metaphor. Can we remove layers and start over? Is that maybe a hidden meaning to explain? To reduce, not to the essence, but to nothing?
I think of meanings as something like the possibilities for interaction. Depending on the structure of the cultural web you catch the world into different meaning will arise. A meaning of a cup could be a warm drink, a holy communion or a trash to sort out.
Phenomena are like specks of dust carried by the wind, and the mind experiences the world as the vibration of strands.