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\n", "In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play, more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. Most Hamlets I have seen were placed far too early. Hamlet is essentially a scholar of the Revival of Learning; and if the allusion to the recent invasion of England by the Danes puts it back to the ninth century, the use of foils brings it down much later. Once, however, that the date has been fixed, then the archæologist is to supply us with the facts which the artist is to convert into effects.
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\n", " But in real life, sailors who insist on tearing holes in the ship because it’s “not the ocean” are the ones who drown first.\n", " \n", "The sea surrounds us, endless and unknowable. Children stare over the rails and see nothing but waves—sometimes calm, sometimes roaring—but always moving. The sea does not explain itself. It gives no testimony. It is the raw, entropic background against which all meaning is projected. Some say the sea is truth, but if so, it is a truth without shape, without preference, without story. We do not live on the sea. We live on the ship.\n", "\n", "The ship is everything at first. It feeds us, teaches us, shelters us. Its planks are our world, its rules our morality. To question the ship too early is dangerous; not only because the elders enforce discipline, but because one risks falling into the sea, which is madness to the untrained. The ship is a filter. It organizes the chaos. We do not choose it, but it is ours.\n", "\n", " \n", "\n", "```{raw} html\n", "\n", "\n", "
\n", " — Yours Truly & GPT-4o\n", "
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" The Upside-Down Tree: A Fractal of Reality, Resources, and Illusion. In the darkest, most sacred hours of Friday night, exploring the deep secrets of Kabbalah, he discovered a most astonishing mystical teaching: The Tree of Life is an upside-down tree.\n", "
\n", " \n", " \n", " 🔍\n", "CG-BEST: Nitrogen Fixation and the Hidden Economy of Life. And how does that relate to a bequest, resources, faustian bargain vs islamic finance, distributed, and legacy?
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" Consider pretext, subtext, text, context, metatext. It is text in the mode of holy-writ that makes faustian bargains vs. islamic finance the ultimate bifurcation in how systems are engineered.
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