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In the spirit of helping to nurture a new form of discourse (or a new
embodiment of a fairly familiar form, the "evolving discussion"), I
have been trying to participate in Nick's "Noodlers Corner". I normally experience FRIAM mail as a series of interrupts. Every time I read my e-mail, I get one or more e-mails from the FRIAM list which I choose to read or not based on the subject, the author, my mood, other distractions. Again, based on the same things and on the content of the posting/mail, I choose to respond (or not). As I traced through the archives by thread, the image of a huge tassle of threads hanging from the present into the past overcame me. In the spirit of noodling, I tried to think about these threads (noodles) a different way. Since noodles tend to be all piled up in a bowl or on a plate, sometimes floating in broth, I tried to imagine how these threads might really be proto-noodles. What I came up with intuitively was that each thread is a noodle, but everytime a thread refers to another thread, said noodle crosses the other noodle, and everytime a thread refers back to itself (other than in the mundane sense of a full quote of the earlier text) said noodle has curled back and overlapped itself. The wiki form explicitely allows for references between "threads" (noodles in this case) and within a single thread (noodle) and outside the bowl (URLs referencing documents in the grand hypertext metaverse of the web itself). I will include this e-mail (or most of it) in a new noodle, and encourage FRAIMers to give Nick's Noodler's Corner another look, maybe dive in and squirm around in the noodles forming there! - Steve |
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