Category Archives: Poetry

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Posted on August 11, 2019 by

August is always a time for introspection for me, due to the whole birthday thing. So I have been taking stock of where I am, where I’ve come from, and where I am going. No real conclusions, as yet, except … Continue reading →

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Are you a storyteller or a storyshower?

Posted on February 5, 2019 by

If you write fiction you’re a storyteller. Other media–movies and comics, for example, show the audience the story. Fiction tells a story. The oft-repeated advice, “show, don’t tell” is good for filmmakers and artists, but I have become convinced that … Continue reading →

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Metaesthetics viewed as a global discriminatory function for theorem sheafs (Part VI)

Posted on April 20, 2018 by

VI. Beauty And Truth And All That Jazz Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V A successful metaesthetic formalism has scalar consistency between mechanical, narrative, and thematic elements. Generally when we speak of consistency in fiction we mean … Continue reading →

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Metaesthetics viewed as a global discriminatory function for theorem sheafs (Part V)

Posted on April 20, 2018 by

V. In Which The Audience Is Invited To Participate Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV And now, at long last (I had planned this initially as three essays) we come to the point of the series. Or rather, … Continue reading →

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Metaesthetics viewed as a global discriminatory function for theorem sheafs (Part IV)

Posted on April 20, 2018 by

IV. Aesthetics And Metaesthetics In Practice Part I Part II Part III Aesthetics is the study of the formalism of a means of communication–that is to say the relationship between what is being said to how you say it. Metaesthetics … Continue reading →

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Metaesthetics viewed as a global discriminatory function for theorem sheafs (Part III)

Posted on April 20, 2018 by

III. A Further Note On Linguistic Abstraction Part I is here, and Part II is here. To continue: The disciplines of thought can be characterized by the ways in which the symbols manipulated are parsed. An arithmetical manipulation of symbols, … Continue reading →

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Metaesthetics viewed as a global discriminatory function for theorem sheafs (Part II)

Posted on April 20, 2018 by

II. Graduated Boundaries Of Abstraction And Their Implications In my earlier post I alluded to the process of sensory abstraction as a continuum. In very general terms, a perceived structure may be interpreted as a pattern of color and form, … Continue reading →

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