SA, It's from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It's waiting for something.
"In a stunned state Phædrus began a long series of lateral drifts that led him into a far orbit of the mind, but he eventually returned along a route we are now following, to the doors of the University itself. Tomorrow I'll try to start on that route. (ZMM, Chapter 10) "At first the truths Phædrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed, but the kind of truth you see laterally, out of the corner of your eye. In a laboratory situation, when your whole procedure goes haywire, when everything goes wrong or is indeterminate or is so screwed up by unexpected results you can't make head or tail out of anything, you start looking laterally. That's a word he later used to describe a growth of knowledge that doesn't move forward like an arrow in flight, but expands sideways, like an arrow enlarging in flight, or like the archer, discovering that although he has hit the bull's eye and won the prize, his head is on a pillow and the sun is coming in the window. Lateral knowledge is knowledge that's from a wholly unexpected direction, from a direction that's not even understood as a direction until the knowledge forces itself upon one. Lateral truths point to the falseness of axioms and postulates underlying one's existing system of getting at truth." (ZMM. Chapter 11) "I settle back in the grass and rest again. Maybe it's not having answers that's Lateral defeating both of us. I don't want to go ahead because it doesn't look like any answers ahead. None behind either. Just lateral drift. That's what it is between me and him. drift, waiting for something." (ZMM, Chapter 18) Marsha At 01:40 PM 9/8/2007, you wrote: > [Marsha] > > I had forgotten about lateral drift. Wonderful, > > beautiful lateral > > drift. We are, indeed, in agreement. > > > What's lateral drift again? If anybody has the >link for Lila so I can upload it again I would >appreciate it. I had it, I believe Ian gave me a link >to upload it before, but it accidentially got trashed >when my wife was cleaning up the computer uploads. >Then I could search for this concept myself, and see >it in the context derived in Lila. >thanks. >SA > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Got a little couch potato? >Check out fun summer activities for kids. >http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz > > >Moq_Discuss mailing list >Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >Archives: >http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
