Circle Drawers
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Astros and Angels...bottom of first...Fletcher made out...Simmons up....Astros 3-0...Astros' pitching ace Cole on the mound...ground out...Ohtani up...went to the game last night...Angels won 7-2...Angels jumped ahead in the first inning 6-0...Trout still sidelined...W...Upton up...when a team has a couple good pitchers, like Cole and Verlander, it helps a lot...no losing streak lasts long...Angels have won their last five or six in a row...can't remember if they swept Seattle for four games, or three...three....streak is five...tonight's game a real test if it continues...Angels make out...to top of second...the Astros' hitters didn't look that tough...or their defense...but after that first inning last night, their pitching settled down...Pena on mound tonight for Angels...Astros with two runners...Altuve up...hit into the corner...dbl...Astros 5-0...this game upside down from last night!...hmmph...Altuve steals third...grounder to Fletcher at third...out at first, runner held...that happened a lot last night...Astros had like fifteen lob...left on base...due to good fielding by Angels...K...to bottom of second...Calhoun with lead off hit...Goodwin K...Rengifo up...
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By 2800 BCE the writing system started to exhibit use of phonetic elements. As the Sumerian language had a high number of monosyllabic words, there was a high degree of homophony, meaning that there is a large number of words that sound alike or identical. This presented the possibility of rebus writing, where sign for one word is used to represent another word that has a similar or identical sound. One example is ti "arrow", which is similar to til "life". So, to write "life", the ancient Sumerians wrote the sign for "arrow". Eventually, the logogram for "arrow" became a syllabogram to represent the sound /ti/. Similarly, other logograms also became syllabograms.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/sumerian.html
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Astros' Cole leading majors in strike outs...fc...runner out at second...Thais up...a thought is that the first 'written' language was simple side by sides...a paw print was seen in the dirt behind a walking lion...so each critter would have been inventoried by hunter gatherers...a lion paw print in the dirt seen without a lion around would still have said 'lion'...so, match cuts were the beginning...side by sides...stories with just pictures...and then stories with words that were a kind of reverse rebus for pictures...does rebus have an antonym?...Angels made out...to top of third...oh, a lead off hustle double...oh, plenty of synonyms, nothing much for antonyms...problem is the word 'rebus' is nebulous!...there's this thing that happens: the word bee evokes an image of a bee, and so visa versa...that's an exact alike if the word bee and the pic bee are side by side...there are a bunch of different 'alikes'...look alike, be alike, maybe alike, sometimes alike, not alike...passed ball and runner scores...so, so, down to double words:...touch touch, big big, deer deer. dear dear, dear deer, dear deer...bee bee, be bee, be be, bee be...Astros make out...Astros 6-0...to bottom of third...sound alikes with different meanings....Nature is very specific...a lion's footprint is always a lion's footprint; each bird's feather colors are specific to one species...the welter of things in Nature is confusing, but the specificity makes it a language that can be read...Nature isn't capricious...nothing nebulous, or even enigmatic...Fletcher robbed of a hit, sinking line drive caught...Simmons with two out hit...Ohtani up...another diving catch takes hit away from Ohtani...double words are match cuts, side by sides...oh, take any sentence in random, and split it up into pairs...."another diving....catch takes...hit away...from Ohtani"...to top of fourth...lead off hit...and that...seems to ...be how...things work...writing is a bunch of side by sides, match cuts, glued together by a kind of congruent context...'dog', just the word, by itself, is kind of baffling...'dog bone' has some traction...even 'dog dog' has some traction because of our expectation that two words together are a side by side, a match cut...one word is always the 'lion', the other the 'paw'...123 after the hit...runner left at third...to bottom of fourth...Upton with lead off hit...Calhoun up...iconography, the enigmatic motifs of the ancients, has to have the same underpinning...the images aren't meant to be portraits, or artistic...they are just what they are, like a lion's paw print is a paw print, a lion a lion...the motifs are words...two motifs side by side, match cut, make a meaning...and this is where I suspect the ancients had a mastery of communication that has been lost...no one today can really read the ancient motifs...there are guesses, reasonable observations...the Great Pyramid is baffling because there doesn't seem to be any thing to set it beside...it's like a one word poem, or some such...modern artists have distilled things to this, offering up blank canvases that are blank!...Angels made out...so, there's the three Giza Pyramids beside the Sphinx, the Sphinx with a lion's body and a Pharaoh's head...as a scene, a vignette, a side by side by side, it kind of makes, not sense, but a very human kind of enigma!...I dunno...lost is what the 'rebus' was...the key, the match cut...who or what was Pharoah?, the Lion?, the Pyramid?...read said the Pyramids are further back in time from Cleopatra, than Cleopatra is from our time, though if you put Cleopatra beside a Pyramid, one would think she made it...oh, another run for Astros...Astros 7-0...and another double...Astros 8-0...mercifully, Angels pitcher Pena relieved...but relief allowed all of Pena's runners to come in...one doesn't need a giant pyramid to be befuddled by human enigmas...consider, or maybe not, the Zen circle drawers...and a home run by Springer, 'circling the bases'...Astros 11-0...Bart pitching for Angels in relief...Altuve grounds out...games like this boil down to individual performance...a good at bat, a good defensive play, the only thing left to pursue...one more run ahead in softball would bring on the mercy rule...game over...
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The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe, and mu (the void). It is characterised by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D
to bottom of fifth...Guerno gets his fist major league home run...Astros 11-1...oh, but Cole with such a lead will just serve up balls over the plate...not...0-2 count on Fletcher!...lol...K...batter before Guerno K too...commercial buried!...Zen is an activity, so the circle without the making of the circle, is kind of the lion without its paw...Simmons with hit...Simmons limping...but stays in game...Ohtani up...maybe a connoisseur of calligraphy can get by with just seeing an enso...I dunno...base hit...poke to the uncovered by shift left field...Ohtani picking up Pujol's skills...Simmons thrown out at home...a challenge on the play...no luck...to top of sixth...
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The circle may be open or closed. In the former case, the circle is incomplete, allowing for movement and development as well as the perfection of all things. Zen practitioners relate the idea to wabi-sabi, the beauty of imperfection. When the circle is closed, it represents perfection, akin to Plato's perfect form (Plato), the reason why the circle was used for centuries in the construction of cosmological models, see Ptolemy.
same wiki
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I refuse, anymore, to offer opinions, captions, for minimalist art!...one of the old masters, or maybe a modern one, demonstrated their skills, somewhat like figure skaters used to do, by scribing a perfect circle...I challenged an artist friend once to do just this, and they did...and, I was flummoxed...lol...
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The most famous is his big O.
Pope Boniface VIII wanted to commission some paintings for St. Peter’s and so he sent a courtier around to find the best painter in Italy. The courtier asked all the artists to give him a sample of their work to send to the Pope. He came to Giotto’s workshop, explained his mission, and asked him for a drawing which would give the Pope some idea of his competence and style. “Sure,” said Giotto; and he laid down a sheet of paper, reached for a brush dipped in red paint, closed his arm to his side to make a sort of compass of it, and in one even sweep scribed a perfect circle. “There you are,” he told the courtier, handing it to him with a smile.
https://100swallows.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/giottos-o/
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about here I drift off to look at Giotto's paintings-a favorite!...Astros 123...to bottom of sixth...time for a snack...feed Maya my dog...Angels made out...to top of seventh...bk...final score, Astros 12-1, I think...lol...
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