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From the interview with Monkey Bread, in the Daughters of Nzingha newsletter in the novel Mosquito by Gayl Jones. Remember that listeners have got imaginations and sometimes their imaginations are richer than anything they can hear. Tell your stories right … Continue reading
Just a Job
A brief passage from Pat Cadigan Tea from an Empty Cup (1998) offers a view of game environments and their attractions. The guitar-player smiled. “What you want is simple. All you had to do was state it in the proper … Continue reading
Dipping into Perspective
I take it from the framing of the following case that the authors of The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning, Albert R. Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin, are not vegetarian or Christian vegetarians. Other cases may appear to … Continue reading
To make, to hold.
Observation from The Wabi-sabi House: the Japanese art of imperfect beauty They provide a tactile meditation almost impossible to find anywhere else. “They” are “[t]he arts of spinning wool, making pottery, and weaving baskets”. They are “more than just wabi-sabi … Continue reading
Ambiguities
Artist Alastair MacLennan: Art is the demonstrated wish and will to resolve conflict through action, be it spiritual, religious, political, personal, social or cultural. I read and reread the sentence and if I am correct all those adjectives are modifying … Continue reading
Anti-Theft
Augustine’s Rule Chap 8.5 Should anyone conceal a gift bestowed upon him he shall be judged guilty of theft. Begs for an ontology of gifts. They are concealable. Not necessarily so. Gifts unbestowed are not yet open to concealment. There … Continue reading
Yes to “No” when there is no “Yes”
In Frogs into Princes: neurolinguistic programming TM Richard Bandler and John Grinder suggest that in certain practices a minimum of three options are necessary to operate out of choice. It is suggested that operating with only one way is robot … Continue reading
Cleverness
Jane Jacobs’s characterization of the doubleness of cheats in Dark Age Ahead hints at a connection between lying and the unbridled wish for more of the same: Greed becomes culturally admired as competence, and false or unrealistic promises as cleverness. … Continue reading
Cannibalize
Lowell Gallagher concludes the introduction to the Medusa’s Gaze thus The shape of that [casuistry’s] career, I believe, effectively rewrites the premises governing the eventual manifestations of the discourse of conscience in the literary culture of the eighteenth century, at … Continue reading