David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :
'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)
(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia. (2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.
Stephanie : Know what your problem is, Shapiro? It's that you just have this really shitty way of looking at things, ya know? I don't have that problem. I just look at the dopeness. But you, it's like you just look at the wackness, ya know?
Luke Shapiro : I do?
Stephanie : All you have to do is look at me. And kiss me.
The term subitism points to sudden awakening, the idea that insight into Buddha-nature, or the nature of mind,[1] is "sudden,"[2] c.q. "in one glance," "uncovered all together," or "together, completely, simultaneously," in contrast to "successively or being uncovered one after the other."[3] It may be posited as opposite to gradualism, the original Buddhist approach which says that following the dharma can be achieved only step by step, through an arduous practice. Wikipedia
"One of each, thanks." - Anon.
[19] And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
[20] Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
[21] And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. - God "Everything is everything" Now hear this mixture, where Hip Hop meets scripture - Lauryn Hill
Teaching aids 2 (July), Colin McCahon,1975 coll. AGNSW
detail coll. FIAPCE A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/ someone looks at something...
LOGOS/HA HA
Iroha pangram plus numerals 1234, Ryokan (1758–1831)
A pangram (Greek: παν γράμμα, pan gramma, "every letter") or holoalphabetic sentence is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once.
In Japanese, although typical orthography uses kanji (logograms), pangrams can be made using every kana, or syllabic character. The Iroha is a classic example of a perfect pangram in non-Latin script.
We've been musing on the Iroha pangram plus numerals 1234 by the Japanese Zen monk, poet and respected calligrapher Ryokan (1758–1831) and on Colin McCahon's Teaching Aids series as a way of further considering the TAR pangram,
sentence - Wiktionary
1. In grammar, a sentence is a group of words that follow normal grammar rules, and that, in writing, begins with a capital letter and ends with a period '.', question mark '?', or exclamation mark '!'. Usually a sentence has a subject, verb, and object.
2. In law, a sentence is the punishment that a judge gives to a criminal.
3. In art and in TAR, a sentence might be (say) a composition of signs of elements regarded as crucial.
etymology
Borrowing from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”); see sentient, sentience, sense, scent.
which we base draw many times each day.
Noteworthy, we reckon, is the chasmic worldview difference between practising (1) the traditional Japanese Iroha panagram and (2) the best known English language pangram :
1.
Although its scent still lingers on the form of a flower has scattered away For whom will the glory of this world remain unchanged? Arriving today at the yonder side of the deep mountains of evanescent existence We shall never allow ourselves to drift away intoxicated, in the world of shallow dreams.
- English translation by Professor Ryuichi Abe
2. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Some more from wikipedia :
The Iroha (いろは) is a Japanese poem. Authorship is traditionally ascribed to the Heian era Japanese Buddhist priest and scholar Kūkai (空海) (774–835). However, this is unlikely as it is believed that in his time there were separate e sounds in the a and ya columns of the kana table. The え (e) above would have been pronounced ye, making the pangram incomplete.[4]
It is said [by whom?] that the Iroha is a transformation of these verses in the Nirvana Sutra:
諸行無常 是生滅法 生滅滅已 寂滅為楽
which translates into
All acts are impermanent That's the law of creation and destruction. When all creation and destruction are extinguished That ultimate stillness (nirvana) is true bliss.
Pete: [strums guitar] You ready for this, J-dog? Jam out, drink some brews, talk about everything and nothing.
Jack: After today, that is exactly what I am ready for. [claps hands] Beer me.
Pete: [hands Jack a beer]
Jack: [cracks beer and sighs] Sitting around, drinking beer while a guy in a poncho plays guitar... this is what I always pictured college being like.
Pete: I wouldn't really know. I only had about two weeks of real college before Paula got pregnant. Twice. She had overlapping pregnancies five months apart.
Pete: [laughs and starts playing guitar] Baw baw baw baw baw.
Jack: [sings] Sitting on a park bench. I don't know the words except park bench.
Jack: Hey, Pete. How do I know that the colors you see are the same as the colors that I see? Maybe what I see as red you perceive as green.
Pete: We should be writing this stuff down.
- 30 Rock [ season 5 episode 8 )
Although Daishu apparently never formally studied Zen as did the other two Shu, he once had a run-in with a Zen priest who gave him a valuable hint. Deishu was visiting a temple in Ueno on family business and happened to boast to the priest there how skillful he was with a spear.
"Is that so?' remarked the priest. "How about a demonstration? Do you think you can touch me with your weapon?"
Angered by the priest's cavalier disregard of his reputation, Deishu grabbed a laundry pole, prepared to make short work of the monk. To his consternation, Deishu got nowhere near the priest who deftly avoided every thrust. Deishu was forced to concede defeat and beseeched the the priest, "What school do you profess? Please teach me the principles of your Ryu."
"I belong to the 'Mountains are high, rivers are long' Ryu. It is also know as the 'Eyes horizontal, nose vertical' or the Willows are green, flowers are red' School."
'What do you mean?" a confused Deishu asked
"Figure it out for yourself," the Zen priest told him.
- John Stevens, The Sword of No-Sword: Life of the Master Warrior Tesshu
COVID-19 as cause : as, one by one, Australia's museums re-open...
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
Re-open to Normal, or New Normal?
The English museum comes from the Latin word, and is pluralized as "museums" (or rarely, "musea"). It is originally from the Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseion), which denotes a place or temple dedicated to the Muses (the patron divinities in Greek mythology of the arts), and hence a building set apart for study and the arts,[3] especially the Musaeum (institute) for philosophy and research at Alexandria by Ptolemy I Soter about 280 BC.[4] - Wikipedia
Seat of the Muses? (Museum) Amuse-ment Arcade? TAR set of Mu? (Mu-seum)
The Japanese and Korean term mu (Japanese: 無; Korean: 무) or Chinese wu (traditional Chinese: 無; simplified Chinese: 无), meaning "not have; without", is a key word in Buddhism, especially Zen traditions. - wikipedia
Penelope Mason writes of Hakuin's mu :
When carefully executed, this kanji has three parallel horizontal lines, four verticals, and four marks below the grid. The configuration of strokes suggests a means of counting and after four items have been marked off, they are cancelled out by the three horizontal lines. In contrast, Hakuin's muis a jumble of strokes expressing vitality rather than negation, energy rather than meticulous accounting...
We were delighted to receive this communique of meta-regard from the Ian Potter Museum of Art :
Dr Kyla McFarlane contemplates the act of staring at the work The Coat, taking time with it rather than just glancing at it; allowing oneself to get lost in the detail, experiencing each element of the composition as well as the impact of the work in its entirety.
The human brain is divided into two hemispheres – left and right. Scientists continue to explore how some cognitive functions tend to be dominated by one side or the other; that is, how they are lateralised. - Wikipedia
TARists of binary matters and matrix studies continue to observe Re. subject matter regarding object matter
"Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead...
Some days after jotting down the drawing below, Dr King's final speech returns to the fore
"Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live – a long life; longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. - Wikipedia
