On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Kim Jones <kimjo...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> > > On 3 Mar 2014, at 8:53 pm, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > > What is it, Bruno, about 3 beats to the bar that precisely, irrefutably > describes to my mind a circle? > > > You tell me. > > Bruno > > > Sure. I think it is this: > > http://youtu.be/AP_CSQgBPpQ > > The angel and the devil both pumping The Wheel of Fortune. Note that once > you pull on the wheel, it turns. This generates "fate". Could a triangle do > the trick as well? > If you spin the triangle along an extra dimension and want to avoid the 4 corners of a pyramid, keeping things 3, you get a cone :-) Perhaps "the cone of the fate of the waltz", without taking these linguistic tags too seriously. I guess 3 is rhythmically round for its innate properties, including the vicinity of two overly symmetric neighbors: 2 and 4. Usually, you'd think the even values are rounder and feminine and odd ones the opposite, but 2 and 4 are quite the male tyrants of symmetry. If they managed to eliminate 3, we have no more waltzes, or children skipping in the *1*-2-3-*1*-2-3 from side to side, instead of the marching, symmetry-obsessed gait of 2 and 4. For the unconvinced: draw a circle in the air continuously and count 1-2-3 over and over, hitting 12 o'clock (or any distinct spot of your circle), every time you hit 1, in your counting. Now try this with counting to 2. Speed things up a bit and you see that 2 will quickly reduce itself to some back-and-forth thing and make your circles tend towards less roundness. Similar with four. But three keeps your circles and the skipping/dancing we do round: a boy skipping, or having a rounder walk, is seen as effeminate by bigots. It's consistent from this procedural rhythmical perspective that π is some kind of 3. If you want a song that evokes spins, you need 3 here. A carousel spinning with music in 4s or 2s is just wrong. Complain to the operator. Their ride will be more attractive and correct on this level ;-) PGC > > K > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
