bears have evil eyes and can see through the distortions of gravity.
I think this is a reference to the common-knowledge qualities of animals per a typical medieval western European bestiary. Likewise, lynxes were supposed to have keen eyesight (there's a chapter in my large book on heraldry by Peter Gywnn-Jones about the qualities of medieval bestiary animals, which might be useful to you at this juncture). Also, would you be interested in a paper that went into greater detail about the qualities of common medieval animals-as-symbols in Chaucer's work as metaphor for a socially-mandated male-gendered sexual and social gentling?
"Do not imitate a dog, but make your organism enter into composition with something else in such a way that the particles emitted from the aggregate thus composed will be canine as a function of the relation of movement and rest, or of molecular proximity, into which they enter.
This...emitting a molecular "thing" is how I think of chi, and prayer, and intention, and music performance in the space between when you hear the note and hit the key, and how I...draw my wings and tail and ears in my mind around me with the space in the air.
or something that does not even have a localizable relation to the animal in question."
This is why I don't worry too much if those wings and tail and ears are real, or if dragons are real.
forming passages or perceptible landmarks for the imperceptible processes."
If you think of this in terms of that "music sends out molecules that transform people into the other" stuff, you can think of sheet music as a physical landscape flattened, and unflatten it in your mind--hills and valleys of arpeggios; repeat bars as gilman-esque standing stones that cause us to go back and repeat themes again when we touch them.
Is it worrying that I find this stuff...almost easy to understand? Nah--I don't think I should find it worrying! I find it amusing, like somebody told a joke!
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Date: 2010-09-29 02:50 am (UTC)Tummy Sez iz breakfast tiem
bears have evil eyes and can see through the distortions of gravity.
I think this is a reference to the common-knowledge qualities of animals per a typical medieval western European bestiary. Likewise, lynxes were supposed to have keen eyesight (there's a chapter in my large book on heraldry by Peter Gywnn-Jones about the qualities of medieval bestiary animals, which might be useful to you at this juncture). Also, would you be interested in a paper that went into greater detail about the qualities of common medieval animals-as-symbols in Chaucer's work as metaphor for a socially-mandated male-gendered sexual and social gentling?
"Do not imitate a dog, but make your organism enter into composition with something else in such a way that the particles emitted from the aggregate thus composed will be canine as a function of the relation of movement and rest, or of molecular proximity, into which they enter.
This...emitting a molecular "thing" is how I think of chi, and prayer, and intention, and music performance in the space between when you hear the note and hit the key, and how I...draw my wings and tail and ears in my mind around me with the space in the air.
or something that does not even have a localizable relation to the animal in question."
This is why I don't worry too much if those wings and tail and ears are real, or if dragons are real.
forming passages or perceptible landmarks for the imperceptible processes."
If you think of this in terms of that "music sends out molecules that transform people into the other" stuff, you can think of sheet music as a physical landscape flattened, and unflatten it in your mind--hills and valleys of arpeggios; repeat bars as gilman-esque standing stones that cause us to go back and repeat themes again when we touch them.
Is it worrying that I find this stuff...almost easy to understand? Nah--I don't think I should find it worrying! I find it amusing, like somebody told a joke!