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1789, in a lecture presented on his behalf by Dr. Black, wrote “I consider the Earth to be a super-organism and that its proper study should be by physiology.” This view that the Earth in some ways could be viewed as a superorganism was widely held in the early 19th century
Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine: James Lovelock: 9781856750400: Books – Amazon.ca
Source: Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine: James Lovelock: 9781856750400: Books – Amazon.ca
LXXXIII. To Sura. Pliny the Younger. 1909-14. Letters. The Harvard Classics.
Source: LXXXIII. To Sura. Pliny the Younger. 1909-14. Letters. The Harvard Classics.
Now I’m thinking I’ll have to bring in some tropes to do that, because I’m not good enough to be completely original on every level.
Source: Medium-scale storytelling – (via Ran Prieur)
I’ve toyed for a long time with this idea of a sequence of charged states, strung together. That drama–in the sense of an unfolding of tensions along a narrative timeline through the interactions of characters–is a kind of a passing of a charged moment through the mechanisms laid out on the string.
The King Wen sequence.
I still don’t know what that is supposed to mean. Terence McKenna, something something.
Commedia dell’arte.
You have each trigram as a complex/cluster/association of charged components (ingredients) in arrayed in such and such configuration. And that “state changes” occur, via time-based variations of the field and its components.
The manner and type of these state-values must be, probably, limited. The full set of trigrams. Trigrams which tend to cluster together into mini-sequences or common bits which for some reason form magnetic larger blocks (mega-components).
In fiction, the Determined Homesteader is determined to have a place that he owns in his own right, come hell or high water. And generally, every horrible thing that could happen to a piece of land will during the course of the story.
Source: Threshold Guardians – TV Tropes
Somebody has to set up the joke so the funny guy can deliver the punchline. That’s the Straight Man. He rarely gets the funny lines, but has to have impeccable timing and delivery so that the comic (the other half of a comedy duo) can hit it out of the park.
Source: Straight Man – TV Tropes
But even Dark Matter is good at something I can’t do at all. I can conceive big ideas and make the fine details sparkle, but I still haven’t learned how to do medium-scale storytelling, to keep a multi-thread narrative going page after page. Now I’m thinking I’ll have to bring in some tropes to do that, because I’m not good enough to be completely original on every level. Even my weirdest favorite song has verses and hooks.
Source: Ran Prieur