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- 01 Jun 2016 19:29
- Forum: The Oracle
- Topic: Faulknerian Time
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Faulknerian Time
Is anyone familiar with the Faulknerian Chronotope? The space-time construct that William Faulkner uses in some of his most famous novels (The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!). "Time is the mausoleum of all hope and desire... The is not dead, it is not even past..." For William Faulkner all ...
- 01 Jun 2016 19:22
- Forum: The Oracle
- Topic: Doors
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- Views: 9631
Re: Doors
Interesting note: William Blake's The Lambeth Books (his long prophetic works) are heavily influenced by "Hindoo" Mythology. Blake was among the first Western poets and philosophers to incorporate Eastern myth into his work. The Proverbs of Hell, The Book of Thel, The of Urizen, Los, etc... all ...
- 01 Jun 2016 19:12
- Forum: The Oracle
- Topic: Cyclical patterns in Fibonacci numbers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7771
Re: Cyclical patterns in Fibonacci numbers
^These are not Fibonacci sequences. Can you perhaps clarify exactly what operation/function is performed upon the base? Fn for n = 0 or 1 or n-1 or n+1 id the base function of Fibonacci integer sequences.
What makes Fibonacci sequences interesting to me is not what numeric patterns emerge, but ...
What makes Fibonacci sequences interesting to me is not what numeric patterns emerge, but ...
- 01 Jun 2016 18:33
- Forum: The Oracle
- Topic: Language Games (Notes from a work in Progress)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4143
Language Games (Notes from a work in Progress)
All thought (that is to say linguistic thought) is shaped during our waking hours, our waking life, by languages of culture-society-existence. This is the litany of contemporary waking life. In a society where vast bodies of knowledge are readily available (at once one can consider side-by-side the ...
- 06 Apr 2016 23:29
- Forum: The Oracle
- Topic: The Human
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7064
Re: The Human
@Sintrasesity
The value of the nonlinear narrative is that it recovers for the reader a more egalitarian experience. The linear narrative is bound and fixed by an omnipotent author or set of fixed authors. Essentially it is a hierarchical relationship where the author is privileged over the reader ...
The value of the nonlinear narrative is that it recovers for the reader a more egalitarian experience. The linear narrative is bound and fixed by an omnipotent author or set of fixed authors. Essentially it is a hierarchical relationship where the author is privileged over the reader ...
- 05 Apr 2016 03:34
- Forum: The Oracle
- Topic: The Human
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7064
The Human
What if not this Grand Narrative?
- 05 Apr 2016 02:57
- Forum: The Oracle
- Topic: Help Me to Understand
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17066
Re: Help Me to Understand
Having just found this place, and having only made it through the first 30 or so advents... I can say that this place is a repository of many years of study of the mythologies and esoteric wisdoms of human history. From the Upanishads to the great Hermes, from Simon Peter to the one who stole fire ...
- 05 Apr 2016 02:51
- Forum: The Oracle
- Topic: Who and Why?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8461
Re: Who and Why?
I suppose the universe unfolds as it should. I am absolutely stunned by this environment. Helena Blavatsky would have marveled at this...