Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.11.1509222334190.26385@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Arche,qin
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 23:36:15 -0400 (EDT)
Arche,qin http://www.alansondheim.org/johnstown025.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/archeqin1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/archeqin2.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/archeqin3.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/archeqin4.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/johnstown115.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/johnstown024.jpg He was the first philosopher to employ, in a philosophical context, the term arche, which until then had meant beginning or origin. For him, it became no longer a mere point in time, but a source that could perpetually give birth to whatever will be. The indefiniteness is spatial in early usages as in Homer (indefinite sea) and as in Xenophanes (6th century BC) who said that the earth went down indefinitely (to apeiron) i.e. beyond the imagination or concept of men. (Wikipedia, Anaximander) returning to qin after exhausted period of two months, wonder, it remaining, in tune, i begin, remember, this gathering this instrument, when i play, worlds open, horizons at all hours, i play murmur, i play the formation of worlds from worlds, play asymptotic reach of horizons from horizons beneath me, above me, to the left and right of me, the forest of qin, the infinite lu, the murmur, indefinite of qin, indefinite forst, indefinite horizons, indefinite memory, the somewhere worlds, the somewhere somewhen worlds the indefinite time, indefinite internal time consciousness, the moment, the other moment, the same (always already transitive), the rail http://www.alansondheim.org/guqin.jpg