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And the last perhaps will not return / and knows me not although I burn. / Ah the trees overhang glowingly / and I feel no one feeling me.

Link: lament - Definitions from Dictionary.com.

la·ment /ləˈmɛnt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[luh-ment] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –verb (used with object) 1. to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence. 2. to mourn for or over. –verb (used without object) 3. to feel, show, or express grief, sorrow, or regret. 4. to mourn deeply. –noun 5. an expression of grief or sorrow. 6. a formal expression of sorrow or mourning, esp. in verse or song; an elegy or dirge.

Quote: Rainer Maria Rilke

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished ... -Browning

Link: Memento mori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Memento mori

"Memento mori is a Latin phrase that may be freely translated as "Remember that you are mortal," "Remember you will die," or "Remember your death". It names a genre of artistic creations that vary widely from one another, but which all share the same purpose, which is to remind people of their own mortality ... The genre was little used in classical antiquity; there, the chief thrust of memento mori was the theme of carpe diem, or "seize the day." ... con't

The Visual Dictionary - a visual exploration of words in the real world.

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all about the visual dictionary The Visual Dictionary is a collaborative project to collect as many photographs of words as possible. We aim to do this by asking you, the user, to send us your images of words, whether they be signage, advertising, graffiti, packaging, menus, written in the sky, tatoos, or made of grass - if its a single word, we'll gladly accept it!

Homophily

Link: Homophily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Homophily (i.e., love of the same) is the tendency of individuals to associate and bond with similar others. The presence of homophily has been discovered in a vast array of network studies. Within their extensive review paper, McPherson, Smith-Lovin and Cook (2001) cite over one hundred studies that have observed homophily in some form or another. These include age, gender, class, organizational role, and so forth.

In their original formulation of homophily, Lazarsfeld and Merton (1954) distinguished between status homophily and value homophily. Status homophily means that individuals with similar social status characteristics are more likely to associate with each other than by chance. By contrast, value homophily refers to a tendency to associate with others who think in similar ways, regardless of differences in status.

This is often expressed in the adage:

    Birds of a feather flock together.

To test the relevance of homophily researchers have distinguished between baseline homophily and inbreeding homophily. The former is simply the amount of homophily that would be expected by chance and the second is the amount of homophily over and above this expected value.

Individuals in homophilic relationships share common characteristics (beliefs, values, education, etc.) that make communication and relationship formation easier. Homophily often leads to homogamy (marriage to people with similar characteristics).

Wabi-sabi

Link: Wabi-sabi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Wabi-sabi (in Kanji: 侘寂) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centred on the acceptance of transience. The phrase comes from the two words wabi and sabi. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete" (according to Leonard Koren in his book Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers). It is a concept derived from the Buddhist assertion of the first noble truth — Anicca, or in Japanese, 無常 (mujyou), impermanence.

Webster's Daily

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Webster's Daily

Found poetry from the first edition of Noah Webster's
American Dictionary of the English Language (1828).
A new definition every day.

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Blink, n.

Blink of ice, is the dazzling whiteness about the horizon, occasioned by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea.

: Situation

Jouissance

Link: Literary Encyclopedia: Jouissance.

"A French word which derives from the verb jouir meaning to have pleasure in, to enjoy, to appreciate, to savour; with a secondary meaning, as in English, of having rights and pleasures in the use of, as in the phrases “she enjoyed good health”, “she enjoyed a considerable fortune”, and “all citizens enjoy the right of freedom of expression”. The derived noun, jouissance, has three current meanings in French: it signifies an extreme or deep pleasure; it signifies sexual orgasm; and in law, it signifies having the right to use something, as in the phrase avoir la jouissance de quelquechose. The word becomes relevant to cultural and literary studies through its usage by the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to signify the condition or bliss, arrival, merging with the other, which can be associated with orgasm but also the obtention of any particularly desired object or condition - for the explorer, arriving at the North Pole perhaps. Jouissance, for Lacan, is not a purely pleasurable experience but arises through augmenting sensation to a point of discomfort (as in the sexual act, where the cry of passion is at times indistinguishable from the cry of pain), or as in running a marathon. Such experiences, as Freud recognised in his essay “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (1920), seem to come close to death, and in Freud’s theory imply an urge to regress to the inorganic state that preceded life. For Lacan, on the other hand, jouissance seems to imply a desire to abolish the condition of lack (la manque) to which we are condemned by our acceptance of the signs of the symbolic order in place of the Real."

Link: UP TO YOU.When the designer's friend got his poems published in a literary magazine, she  surprised him with a piece of "dictionary jewelry". He loved it so much that she decided to expand the idea into a new series.  Each Definition Pendant hangs from a lightweight 16" silver chain.  The definitions come in the following words: spirit, character and happiness.    

ruca

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The one girl, that you would choose over every other

Your true love is your ruca

He who tastes, knows: he who tastes not, knows not. -Ancient Sufi Parable

qua·le (kwä'lē) pronunciation n., pl. -li·a (-lē-ə). A property, such as whiteness, considered independently from things having the property.

Qualia (from the Latin, meaning "what sort" or "what kind"; Latin and English singular "quale" (IPA: [ˈkwɑːle])) are most simply defined as qualities or feelings, like redness, as considered independently of their effects on behavior. In more philosophical terms, qualia are properties of sensory experiences by virtue of which there is something it is like to have them. Whether qualia actually exist is a hotly debated topic in contemporary philosophy of mind. The importance of qualia in contemporary philosophy of mind comes largely from the fact that they are often seen as being an obvious refutation of physicalism. Much of the debate over their existence, however, hinges on the debate over the precise definition of the term, as various philosophers emphasize or deny the existence of certain properties.

Definitions of qualia There are a number of different definitions for qualia. The definitions in use have changed over time. One of the simpler, broader, definitions is "The 'what it's like' character of mental states. The way it feels to have mental states such as pain, seeing red, smelling a rose, etc'" [1]. C. I. Lewis, in his book Mind and the World Order published in 1929, was the first to use the term "qualia" in its generally agreed modern sense. (His original definition was that qualia are the "recognizable qualitative characters of the given.") Frank Jackson later defined qualia as: "...certain features of the bodily sensations especially, but also of certain perceptual experiences, which no amount of purely physical information includes" (1982 p.273). Under definitions like these, which are quite broad, there can be little doubt that qualia exist [2]. However, definitions this broad make it difficult to discuss the precise nature of qualia, and their interaction with the mind and the environment. Some philosophers have made attempts at more precise, and possibly narrower, definitions of qualia, describing things whose existence is more controversial. Daniel Dennett identifies four properties which are commonly ascribed to qualia. According to these, qualia are:
. ineffable; that is, they cannot be communicated, or apprehended by any other means than direct experience.    
2. intrinsic; that is, they are non-relational properties, which do not change depending on the experience's relation to other things.    
3. private; that is, all interpersonal comparisons of qualia are systematically impossible.    4. directly or immediately apprehensible in consciousness; that is, to experience a quale is to know one experiences a quale, and to know all there is to know about that quale. If qualia of this sort exist, then a normally-sighted person who sees red would be unable to describe the experience of this perception in such a way that a listener who has never experienced color will be able to know everything there is to know about that experience. Though it is possible to make an analogy, such as "red looks hot", or to provide a description of the conditions under which the experience occurs, such as "it's the color you see when light of 700 nm wavelength is directed at you," supporters of this kind of qualia contend that such a description is incapable of providing a complete description of the experience. Another way of defining qualia is as "raw feels". A raw feel is a perception in and of itself, considered entirely in isolation from any effect it might have on behavior and behavioral disposition. In contrast, a "cooked feel" is that perception seen as existing in terms of its effects. One key consequence of the claim that such things as raw feels can be meaningfully discussed — that qualia exist — is that it leads to the logical possibility of two entities exhibiting identical behavior in all ways despite one of them entirely lacking qualia. While very few ever claim that such an entity, called a philosophical zombie, actually exists, the mere possibility is sufficient to refute physicalism. Those who dispute the existence of qualia therefore necessarily dispute the existence of philosophical zombies.

Folly

Folly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

n architecture, a folly is an extravagant, useless, or fanciful building, or a building that appears to be something other than what it is.

The term comes from the fact that such structures have often been dubbed "[name of architect or builder]'s Folly", in the sense of foolishness or madness.

Follies are usually found in parks or large grounds of houses and stately homes; they may sometimes have been deliberately built to look partially in ruins. They were especially popular from the end of the 16th century to the 18th century.

The Parc de la Villette in Paris has a number of modern follies by different architects.

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance. -G. Vanderbilt

join-the-dots � Blog Archive � blogging as commonplacing.

Lucia Knoles defines commonplacing as “the act of selecting important phrases, lines, and/or passages from texts and writing them down” and the commonplace book as a “notebook in which a reader has collected quotations from works s/he has read.” She continues: “Commonplace books can also include comments and notes from the reader; they are frequently indexed so that the reader can classify important themes and locate quotations related to particular topics or authors.”

Similarly, Robert Darnton explains: “Time was when readers kept commonplace books. Whenever they came across a pithy passage, they copied it into a notebook under an appropriate heading, adding observations made in the course of daily life. Erasmus instructed them how to do it….

The practice spread everywhere in early modern England, among ordinary readers as well as famous writers like Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, John Milton, and John Locke. It involved a special way of taking in the printed word. Unlike modern readers, who follow the flow of a narrative from beginning to end, early modern Englishmen read in fits and starts and jumped from book to book. They broke texts into fragments and assembled them into new patterns by transcribing them in different sections of their notebooks. Then they reread the copies and rearranged the patterns while adding more excerpts. Reading and writing were therefore inseparable activities. They belonged to a continuous effort to make sense of things, for the world was full of signs: you could read your way through it; and by keeping an account of your readings, you made a book of your own, one stamped with your personality….

The era of the commonplace book reached its peak in the late Renaissance, although commonplacing as a practice probably began in the twelfth century and remained widespread among the Victorians. It disappeared long before the advent of the sound bite.”...

Concept - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A concept is an abstract, universal idea, notion, or entity that serves to designate a category or class of entities, events, or relations. Concepts are abstract in that they omit the differences of the things in their extension, treating them as if they were identical. They are universal in that they apply equally to every thing in their extension. Concepts are also the basic elements of propositions, much the same way a word is the basic semantic element of a sentence.

Concepts are bearers of meaning, as opposed to agents of meaning. A single concept can be expressed by any number of languages. The concept of dog can be expressed as Hund in German, as chien in French, and perro in Spanish. The fact that concepts are in some sense independent of language makes translation possible - words in various languages have identical meaning, because they express one and the same concept.

Link: Commonplace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Commonplace books (or commonplaces) emerged in the 15th century with the availability of cheap paper for writing, mainly in England. They were a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and humanists as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests.

"Commonplace" is a translation of the Latin term locus communis which means "a theme or argument of general application", such as a statement of proverbial wisdom. In this original sense, commonplace books were collections of such sayings, such as Milton's commonplace book. Scholars have expanded this usage to include any manuscript that collects material along a common theme by an individual.

Critically, many of these works are not seen to have literary value to modern editors. However, the value of such collections is the insights they offer into the tastes, interests, personalities and concerns of their individual compilers.

Producing a commonplace is known as commonplacing.

Dictionary.com/commonplace book.

commonplace book n.

    A personal journal in which quotable passages, literary excerpts, and comments are written.

Eudaimonia "human flourishing"

Link: Eudaimonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Eudaimonia (Greek: εὐδαιμονία) is a classical Greek word commonly translated as 'happiness'. Etymologically, it consists of the word "eu" ("good" or "well being") and "daimōn" ("spirit" or "minor deity", used by extension to mean one's lot or fortune). Although popular usage of the term happiness refers to a state of mind, related to joy or pleasure, eudaimonia rarely describes a state of mind, and the less subjective "human flourishing" is therefore often preferred as a translation.

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Duende - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Duende - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Duende From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The duende is a rarely explained concept in Spanish art, particularly flamenco, having to do with emotion, expression and authenticity.

"So, then, the duende is a force not a labour, a struggle not a thought. I heard an old maestro of the guitar say: ‘The duende is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet.’ Meaning, it’s not a question of skill, but of a style that’s truly alive: meaning, it’s in the veins: meaning, it’s of the most ancient culture of immediate creation.

"This ‘mysterious force that everyone feels and no philosopher has explained’ is, in sum, the spirit of the earth, the same duende that scorched Nietzche’s heart as he searched for its outer form on the Rialto Bridge and in Bizet’s music, without finding it---"

"The arrival of the duende presupposes a radical change to all the old kinds of form, brings totally unknown and fresh sensations, with the qualities of a newly created rose, miraculous, generating an almost religious enthusiasm."

"All the arts are capable of duende, but where it naturally creates most space, as in music, dance and spoken poetry, the living flesh is needed to interpret them, since they have forms that are born and die, perpetually, and raise their contours above the precise present." [1] (http://www.tonykline.co.uk/Browsepages/Spanish/LorcaDuende.htm)

-- Garcia Lorca, Theory and Play of the Duende

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. -Steven Wright

Dictionary.com/deconstructive

de·con·struc·tion    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (dkn-strkshn) n. A philosophical movement and theory of literary criticism that questions traditional assumptions about certainty, identity, and truth; asserts that words can only refer to other words; and attempts to demonstrate how statements about any text subvert their own meanings: “In deconstruction, the critic claims there is no meaning to be found in the actual text, but only in the various, often mutually irreconcilable, ‘virtual texts’ constructed by readers in their search for meaning” (Rebecca Goldstein).