Tag: Herman Melville
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Fool’s Gold (Notes on Lodge 49), pt 1
Last time, on Suspended Reason… Why is [Moby Dick] white? He is white, and very much blank, because he personifies […] the indefinable, “the universe” rather than the world of people, that which refuses to be nailed down to a particular meaning. […] Each character has a different response to the unknowable white whale, who…
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Primitive Peacemakers, pt 3: Water Metaphors
See Part 1 & Part 2. The mudded path we trust to lead us back, for the first time, to the source gets muddier as you trudge along, because the source, of course, is always water. Alan Watts This essay has regularly resorted to liquid metaphor, to contrasting the structural stability of framed perception with…
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Primitive Peacemakers, pt 2: Polytheism & an Ecology of Practice
Previously. Main takeaways: Negotiating with those who share your frame is straightforward. The potential for agreement—for reaching a new coordinative equilibrium—is built into the shared frame and in some sense pre-arranged. To agree to a frame, or definition of a situation, is to have already preemptively struck a deal. It is when frames are contested,…
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