2011/04/08 CAVEAT
for 2011 (STILL VALID FOR
2012 and 2013 ) Entropy is winning!
Those pages are the result of the unregulated sedimentation over many
years
(complete rewrite in 2005) of additions made topic after
topic.
Those
pages have taken a life of their own and are*not* organized
linearly
(and will
not because I think that it is "sterile" and it would be
idiotic to
rewrite them as such) as a book written at one go or
periodically rewritten.
This
miscellany may now be seen as a sort of blog, not a nice
garden
"à la française"
or a carefully set and continually maintained Japanese
Garden but as one of those wild
meadows full of flowers and insects.
Your best bet is,
after using
the pages names to get a rough indication
of the general
content, just as with a book to go to the
"orientation" page : contents.
A quick and open mind (a good part of the content here may
seems
difficult by
nature) should save the day for you and if not
then I am really sorry for you. With a
steady 45+
visitors per
day I am quite happy with my readers, the more so when they
tell me
that most often they find the answer to their question(s)
here or
sent encouraging words.
This (wantonly disparate ; linear thinking is narrowed
thinking) collection is like a box of chocolates and not like
a
'grande cuisine' diner.
I
have read enough ( at one time I was a reviewer on a peer committee'
prior to
publication) and written enough academic texts in my life to
be nauseated and quite please with shedding the sterile linear
discipline and be writing "freely" as it please me. I write to help me
clarify my thinking and it is only a secondary and collateral effect,
that can be easily suppressed with no loss to me, if I put it on-line
for
those interested.
At least thrice in the last year I had a mind to scuttle the
whole ungainly ship -I do not
promise
that I will not do it in 2011 ; the workload of putting it on line is
non-negligible, which is why the French counter-part of those pages was
suppressed well before 2005- but each
time I was on the brink (once it was indeed killed for 2
days)
some external stimulation from one of my contributors or from
a reader
staid my executioner hand.
In fact, truth be told,
after 6 years it should be entirely rewritten (and illustrations made
again but in isometric ) from scratch, but a new
post-rewriting sedimentation
will
just make it run wild again so let it be wild (or burn it completely),
those who do not like the wilderness have my compassion and
understanding but they can pass their way'et bon vent' as I will not
do those 5 or 6 months, may be more, of rewriting in the near future
and given my age there is great deal more past than future to
contemplate ;-)
Hope you will decide to read now and then as the fantasy will take you
but will not
despair if you would rather not. ;-D)
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Les sots lisent un livre, et ne l’entendent
point ; les esprits
médiocres croient l’entendre parfaitement ; les grands esprits
ne
l’entendent quelquefois pas tout entier : ils trouvent obscur
ce qui
est obscur, comme ils trouvent clair ce qui est clair ; les
beaux
esprits veulent trouver obscur ce qui ne l’est point, et ne pas
entendre ce qui est fort intelligible. anchor Fools
read a book
and do not undertand its content; mediocre minds believe
they
gets it to perfection, great minds sometimes do
not understand the
whole of it: they
find obscure
what is obscure, just as they find clear what is clear ; the
witty
ones WANT to find obscure what is not obscure and CANNOT
UNDERSTAND what is most intelligible.
Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696)
in Les Caractères ou le moeurs de ce siècle (1688)
Alas it
remains that we all have this sad
trait, when we
cannot
understand some point
because of something lacking in ourselves we find it easier
to blame
the text and its author.
I can do that too, for some seconds, but I usually quickly
pull my intellectual leash.
I trust that my readers are all great minds according to La
Bruyère criterion, and
that
my texts are not obscure.
Sometimes it is the matter which is difficult
and will stay outside the immediate reach of some person who
will have to take
responsibility for that and invest a bit more personal effort to "get
it" or will have to take me to task by
making
contact with me.