"Right through hell there is a path . . . ." — Malcolm Lowry
This quotation is from a Log24 search for "1966."
That search was suggested by the now-streaming film
"MaXXXine" and by . . .
* Title of a book by Nanavira Thera.
Saturday, August 3, 2024
Seeking the Path*
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Monday, October 10, 2022
Seeking the Path
See also a Log24 search for "The Path."
Related material from a similar search
for "Nanavira Thera" —
"I am glad you have discovered that the situation is comical:
ever since studying Kummer I have been, with some difficulty,
refraining from making that remark."
— Nanavira Thera, Seeking the Path [Early Letters, 17 July 1958].
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Saturday, November 6, 2021
Saturday, September 18, 2021
Seeking the Path: The Way Up and the Way Down
From the Aug. 30 post "A Brief Introduction to Ideas,"
an epigraph from Four Quartets —
Another view of the way up and the way down:
"Of course, presentation of the effect in the cause
is exactly what blending the Buddhist Monk's
two journeys provides. The cause is the dynamics
of the two input journeys; the effect is the existence
of a location on the path they occupy at the same time
of day. In the blend, the location and the encounter are
presented directly as part of the causal dynamics of motion."
— Page 78 in The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending ,
by Fauconnier and Turner, Basic Books, 2002.
The Source —
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Saturday, June 23, 2018
Plan 9 from Inner Space
From Nanavira Thera, "Early Letters," in Seeking the Path —
"nine possibilities arising quite naturally" —
Compare and contrast with Hudson's parametrization of the
4×4 square by means of 0 and the 15 2-subsets of a 6-set —
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Monday, February 8, 2016
A Game with Four Letters
Related material — Posts tagged Dirac and Geometry.
For an example of what Eddington calls "an open mind,"
see the 1958 letters of Nanavira Thera.
(Among the "Early Letters" in Seeking the Path ).
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