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| place names and people names : the anatomy of the fearful sphere implies an infinitude of points of an infinite size in an infinitude of directions, but this kind of description is useless : perhaps if deconstructed and examined piece by piece, the vastness and minisculeness will be more evident : firstly, each point must be approximated by a mirror-like object : and each point must have a name : it is unavoidable the question: what is in the name : the name is like a placeholder, a reference to some location in memory : if the content stored in the memory location is no longer associated with the name, then the name is just an empty label with no meaning, but the content in the memory location is still there and the only link back to it is in the name : so perhaps through the name we can excavate the underlying lost content : place names and people names : stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus, eco's quote from the rose: yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names : words, sounds that are names are evidently empty, as also evidenced by goethe's der erlkönig : as with eco's title for the rose, this title evokes discord : to examine this image as one mirror-like point within the fearful sphere : |
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