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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Budd <rmb29@cornell.edu>
To: moq_discuss@moq.org <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 7:33 PM
Subject: MD Leopards in the Temple
hi, richard:
you said:
>Franz Kafka's parable on Static and Dynamic Quality---
>
>"Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the
>sacrificial pitchers. This is repeated over and over again; finally it can
>be calculated in advance and becomes a part of the ceremony."
>
>This metaphorical language is one in which we can more accessibly begin to
understand the process of Dynamic Quality. I see DQ as being just beyond
our reach...or more precisely just beyond the reach of language.
let me expound on this further: DQ is out there between, around , under
the static levels (*see note) and as such it cannot be pinned down by
language since the act of putting it into words by creating an orderly and
rational process destroys the very dynamism which categorizes it.
* note: much as magma moves the continental plates around and then these
very plates are submerged by pressures created in the movement itself and
are recycled into the very magma that destroyed them. for me, this analogy
to the theory of continental drift comes very close to a way of visualizing
the mechanism at work in MOQ. the continental plates are the static levels.
the heated magma is dynamic quality. both are needed for the mechanism to
work. the magma has to be heated and under pressure to the point where it
will move the static plates around. at the same time the movement of the
plates guarantee more magma will be around since it is the submersion of the
plates which is its source.
therefore, DQ can be best understood as a dynamic process rather than an
entity...and metaphorical language the closest more precise way to edge
towards an attempt towards visualizing it more clearly. much like dreams
use what seem to be disorderly symbols which later on can be interpreted by
the dreamer and made some kind of sense of.
im trying real hard to put into words something which i sense to be true.
is anyone understanding me out there?
Lithien
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