Zig-zag revolution

05-10-2001, 08:22 AM

> LOL ! What a relief torture instruments such as corsets are not
> mandatory for women to wear any more. To feel having to be thick and
> thin on all the right places kills too many young women as it is.

Yes, Ive always been thick where I should have been thin, and thin where I
should have been thick - others will say Im now thick all over. Seems to
depend on what view one is seeing and from which window in which house. All
those stairs to run up and down on -seamless and stairless much better.
Eventually, everything "fits" -(as long as the diet is right! and one isn't
engaged in non-evolutionary activity such as gazing at fat ladies on indian
walls.) On the Kenyan coast, some of the ladies are still stuffing the area
around their bottoms with multi layers of fabric under the kangas in order
to look attractive...kind of bustling about.

> Doesn't the world revolution have the meaning "to turn round and
> round and round" as its basis ?

More like a spiral?

>I'm sure revolutions tend to go in
> circles not just change everything 180 degrees.

So we can't have a Zig-zag Revolution?

> I think maybe one of
> the celebrities of the French revolution, Robespierre, who later was
> guilliotined by the mob and his co revolutionaries said something
> about that, but I can't remember what it was.

Well, I did dust off the cover of my Chardin in order to tackle this
evolution topic -but the book was too heavy (whimper) - she mutters,
"spiral, spiral". But, all the stuff you ladies were posting reminded me of
my time as an apprentice with architect Paolo Solari in Arizona. He was
basing his work (designing cities of the future) on the thought of Chardin.
All of it completely beyond me then as it is now, but I had fun in the sun
digging in the dirt and making wind bells. Should anyone on this list ever
be passing through Arizona, don't miss Arcosanti -Paolo's visionary city in
the desert. A living structure of Chardin's thought.

"Off with her head" -comes from a book that is more suitable for me.
Funny, I was just reading how the desert fathers used to greet each other.
Instead of saying "Hello" one greets, "Die before you die," and the other
responds, "Resurrect before resurrection."

I think Ive wandered off topic -what were we talking about -see? pretty
thick today.

Love

Joyce

05-10-2001, 01:50 PM

Hi Joyce,

>> Doesn't the world revolution have the meaning "to turn round and
>> round and round" as its basis ?
>
>More like a spiral?
>
> >I'm sure revolutions tend to go in
>> circles not just change everything 180 degrees.
>
>So we can't have a Zig-zag Revolution?

With a lightning bolt as a symbol?

I wonder if you could classify
revolutions under various types... some listed under the spiral symbol,
some under the lightning bolt, and others...???

>Well, I did dust off the cover of my Chardin in order to tackle this
>evolution topic -but the book was too heavy (whimper) - she mutters,
>"spiral, spiral".

Yeah. Well, I read the whole first chapter slowly to learn all his new
concepts and new words... and then went back and started again. But my
best friend at the time liked to hear me read aloud... and I read it to
her, so that helped. It took a long time, since we kept stopping to
discuss it.

That book was very important in my life. Just before it, I read Margaret
Mead's _New Lives for Old_, about New Guinea natives making the leap from
the stone age to modern times in 25 years. Then I read Teilhard... and
after that, it seemed I had a leap in evolution myself... a spurt of
growth... everything I read seemed to tie into everything else I had
read... everything was connected...

>But, all the stuff you ladies were posting reminded me of
>my time as an apprentice with architect Paolo Solari in Arizona. He was
>basing his work (designing cities of the future) on the thought of Chardin.
>All of it completely beyond me then as it is now, but I had fun in the sun
>digging in the dirt and making wind bells. Should anyone on this list ever
>be passing through Arizona, don't miss Arcosanti -Paolo's visionary city in
>the desert. A living structure of Chardin's thought.

Wonderful! I'd love to see it!

>"Off with her head" -comes from a book that is more suitable for me.

One of my very favorites!

>Funny, I was just reading how the desert fathers used to greet each other.
>Instead of saying "Hello" one greets, "Die before you die," and the other
>responds, "Resurrect before resurrection."
>
>I think Ive wandered off topic -what were we talking about -see? pretty
>thick today.

A powerful Full Moon... still has me going in circles... or zigzagging...

Love,
Dharma