Thanks Mssrs Kallos and Van Dura for your timely assistance to me
re. Russia..I have since found other maps that confirm what y'all
said...I also read the paper about continents and I quite agree..but
the game is fun,be it ever so real or imaginary...be multiple and
fructify....raedwulf
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos
<aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> true enough jimi
> for it is all equally silly
> i agree
> but what is most real about these nation states & or
> oblasts etc is their individual states of mind or
> characters
> aha
> for the people informing them arent imaginary
>
> & they themselves may very well believe in their
> continents & nation states & governments & armies etc
>
> so a multipoint try isnt so much about reaching
> several places at once
> whether real or imaginary
> as it is about addressing
> or even embodying if possible
> the various formats of consciousness that commingle
> there
>
> & the exercise is so fulfilling on this level as to
> fully deserve & warrant its inherent & resounding
> exhortation
>
> be multiple & fructify
>
> the real prospects of humanity may even hinge on
> cultivating this idea
>
> --- jim van dura <jimvandura@...> wrote:
>
> > But Komissar, I see here:
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lewis-myth.html?
_r=1&oref=slogin
> > . . . that Europe and Asia are myths, no less than
> > the
> > nation states (and rag-tag governments and armies)
> > they enfold! So all the more imaginary their
> > multipoints!!! --Jimi
> >
> > --- aletheiak <aletheiak@...> wrote:
> >
> > > since the orenburg oblast is generally accepted as
> > > being in both europe & asia
> > > a total of about 32 & a half subjects are in asia
> > > & thus the balance of about 55 & a half are in
> > > europe
> > >
> > > in terms of this map
> > >
> >
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth/russiaaddivisions.jpg
> > > the conventional continental divide running from
> > > north to south
> > > forms the eastern boundary
> > > successively
> > > of
> > > nenetsia
> > > komi
> > > perm &
> > > bashkortostan
> > > & then splits orenburg pretty much in half
> > >
> > > it appears 7 major internal tripoints fall on the
> > > continental divide
> > >
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "raedwulf16"
> > > <raedwulf16@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Which of Russia's 88 "Subjects" "Republics"
> > > "Krays" "Oblasts" etc ,are
> > > > generally accepted as being in Europe and how
> > > many are in Asia?
> > > > And...are there any that are in both? I know
> > that
> > > Kazakstan is in both
> > > > but it is no longer part of Russia...Thanks
> > > Raedwulf
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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