Adventures of William Thornley in Old Van Diemen's Land 1817-1820 Bushranger ( Read more... )

When shadowed eve creeps around the light
Stretching long, long in the daylight noon
Till night at last sets the sun to rest,
- and long her fingers reach for the moon

A gentle hush at last falls fast
In the deep, deep pale of her light
-and all the world is resting at last
In that hushed gentle, of the night.

I worked this out a little while ago, but I was playing with it on the train. It’s mainly just logical sequencing and a bit of a theory about familial structures that can develop up and out of them. I do have another theory about dominate families, or tribes, and degenerate ones, that feeds into this theory, but that's more of a theoretical ( Read more... )

I might save that from facebook oblivion ( Read more... )

“I have the enlightenment, quick everyone, follow me ( Read more... )

Ryle’s got this agitational calculus, that’s pretty cool. You can calculate approximations to levels of agitation, a bit the way you can work out units of pleasure in Bentham’s Hedonic gear. Must be like an English Grammar school thing. To be honest, I just don’t know what to do with it. I don’t want to refute it because it looks like a lot of fun ( Read more... )

Here, that’s the difference between a skills based education and a memory by rote episodic one - if anyone is looking for it in Ryle. He makes the distinction any number of other places, but the clearest cut is in the recollection, and the ways in which we use ‘to remember’, since most tests and exams rely on retaining what you’ve been exposed to, ( Read more... )

Here this bothers me ( Read more... )

What I can’t work out is whether to use a certain perspective in Ryle. - There’s this theory, buried in his work, that language is a sort of hyper-behavior. You need to grasp the idea that the mind and body are the same thing, in the sense that the body is the animated aspect of the mind, and the world is the continuation of the mind, where the ( Read more... )

There’s about 30 pages, smack bang in the middle of The Imaginary, 97 - 125, which I reckon you could develop into a theory of street art, or at least use to talk about some of the hypnotic imagery and kinesthetic movement, as well as the complex differences between symbolic, schematic and cryptic objects ( Read more... )