Actually, I had no idea what "Mein Zei" could mean, it sounds slightly Asian
to my German ear. Then Google suggested "Mein(e) Zei(t)", which I found
plausible, but no music connected to it. Still completely lost of what you
were asking me, I googled for the correct German title of the linked image
and found something equally schmaltzy to the cover you suggested. But now
that I know that you meant "Mein(e) Zwei" (both "Zeit" and "Zwei"
are feminine in German), the most adequate translation of the title is
probably: there was she. :)


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Chris Jenkins
<[email protected]>wrote:

> I thought instantly of "mein zwei", which can start a conversation all on
> its own... :D
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:42 PM, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Uuuugh, Chris, what's that? A Cher album cover with the writing "Die gab's
>> nur einmal" on it. I'm not sure if this the title of the album or EP. But I
>> found another, even more beautiful, "Die gab's nur einmal" (she was unique/
>> she existed only once):
>> http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/james_last/die_gabs_nur_einmal__as_hans_last_/
>>
>> Now tell what "Mein Zei" is and what it sounds like!
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Chris Jenkins <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I was hearing "Mein Zei", which a quick search of revealed this:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e-XkgWgKsc8/TPWZp-qQcQI/AAAAAAAAHtU/cmRoxuAftl4/s1600/Die+Gab%2527s+Nur+Einmal+2.jpg
>>>
>>> Was ist das, Gabs?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:11 PM, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am hearing "Minds Eye", or maybe not.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:29 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Loads of stugg comes up on googling images related to the term 'Mind's
>>>>> Eye' - not surprisingly a lot of the stuff has an eye in it.  I tend
>>>>> to run the 'eye' bit out in my pondering on what a mind's eye might
>>>>> be.  Some former science colleagues better at maths than me used to
>>>>> try and describe 'visualisation' - how they could manipulate images of
>>>>> geometry involving complex shapes and transformations.  I could never
>>>>> do this and even have trouble working out what happens to, say, door
>>>>> hinges if you turn the door upside down and round-a-bout.  I could
>>>>> often 'guess' how a complex system of transformations would end up,
>>>>> but could never 'see the process' as some claimed.  This was something
>>>>> of a handicap in some stochastic work with molecule shape.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm watching an old Oliver film and have no sympathy with Oliver - all
>>>>> with the other kids and the brilliantly played evil roles.  I often
>>>>> have a lot of difficulty 'seeing' what others are being suckered by in
>>>>> propaganda directly and instead a form of critique of the stuff
>>>>> arises.  I really dislike, say, Huckleberry Finn being played by the
>>>>> rich director's all too clean kid.  I have a cinematic daydreaming
>>>>> imagination, but no imaging comes from words when someone says 'table'
>>>>> - my sister 'sees' gargoyles if you say the word.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm struck there is no 'eye' in mind's eye even though I might as well
>>>>> be in a cinema when daydreaming.  Though one might ask if what I see
>>>>> 'in cinema' relies on past sight - though again I'm not usually
>>>>> 'seeing' recalled events.  I find the artist's attempts at 'mind's
>>>>> eye' disappointing.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm unsure how I notice so strongly that "economics" (a subject I
>>>>> teach with no enthusiasm) is just a 'smell of words' around and
>>>>> obvious failure in human cooperation always leading to a very small
>>>>> number amassing riches.  It's like a gas keeping he truth-seeker at
>>>>> bay.  We are as far from the double-helix in this as the tribe that
>>>>> denies paternity through sex, investing it instead in ghosts with the
>>>>> 'father role' played by maternal uncles.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's been my view for many years that argument fails except in very
>>>>> special circumstances.  The Greeks knew this because equally powerful
>>>>> argument could be adduced for many different views.  They invented a
>>>>> kind of "mind's eye" (see Pyhrronism) in which competing arguments
>>>>> could be assessed.  This is rather too expert for me.  I suspect that
>>>>> what we can't do is strip argument of its propaganda, and suspect
>>>>> again this is a matter of fear of violence in challenging 'deeply'
>>>>> held views - and further that these views are ill-considered dross.
>>>>> One can feel another danger here of the zealot and know-all.  In my
>>>>> mind's eye argument comes with smells, emotions, incredulity,
>>>>> doubt,probability ... and the coldest, most lying voice of all is the
>>>>> disinfected smell of the objective voice.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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