Thursday, April 18, 2024

Idiosyncrasy

It seems that each person adopts an angle on learning that meshes best with their own unique predilections. Currently an animistic perspective on language, associating them with agentic qualities in a sort of pictographic ecological system organized according to a sense of theos phobos might be the style appealing most to me right now. A sort of narrative structure complete with numerous evolving schisms and allegiances. Does this make any sense at all, and will it actually aid learning? I do not know, but I hope to find out... In Rome, a slave sitting right behind a powerful general would from time to time whisper in his ear 後ろを見て to remind him of his mortality, "look behind," with the implication "remember, you're gonna die" (memento mori), just as I will. Or the Buddhist sounding opening to the book of Ecclesiastes:  伝道者は言う、空の空、空の空、いっさいは空である。

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