A Well-Known Rock On Tour ------------------------- Suppose you come to a rock on the moor:
That may or may not have fallen there as a meteorite burrows out of the sky, or lava drops cool in a vanished lake. That may or may not have rolled there on the impulse of a rough-hewn hermit, or the reverence of a primitive tribe. That may or may not have been crafted as an architrave, a bourne, a caltrop, a dolmen, an epistyle, a fenestration? That is the sort of ambiguity that I have been wrestling with, the type of uncertainty of type that arises in trying to read the "Book Of Nature" (BON), the unsettling noise that will at turns shock, surprise, and surround us as we strain to pursue this "Dialogue Involving Nature" (DIN) as one of its partners. This is not the brand of sort of type of ambiguity that will be extinguished by our impoverished attempts to control the speech of our neighbors, nor would it serve us well even if we succeed. Jon Awbrey October 16, 2000 http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Poems_Of_Emediate_Moment -- academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey my word press blog: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ isw: http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/JLA oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache
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