I use the word 'singularity' in my thesis, because they are unusual, and
joined by only a single point, and because they rtepresent a 'magic moment':
An ideal country is circular with the capital at the centre. Just as a drop
of water or mercury will try to form a circle (compare Geopolitik ideas of a
state as a living entity). A drop of water, or a cellular organism, or a
country by analogy, can grow a bulge that becomes a peninsula, whose neck
then gets narrower and narrower, until it disappears entirely and one is
left with 2 drops of water, 2 celluar organisms or one country and an
exclave (or an island if the peninsula was coastal and not sticking into
another country).
There is a magic moment when a coastal peninsula is eroded down to a single
point, where it is both connected and disconnected. On the coast it lasts
but an instant. But if the peninsula was a salient into another country, the
magic moment can be frozen in time, as at Baarle or Jungholz or Cooch Behar.
Thus 'singularity' as the enclave is both connected (by a point) and
disconnected (for all practical purposes).
Brendan
>From: "granthutchison" <granthutchison@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: "Pene-enclave"
>Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:03:46 -0000
>
>Michael:
> > there you have the reason grant for my evidently mistaken surmise of
> > your meaning above because i imagined you were talking & playing
> > straight bp too as you usually do
>Not mistaken at all: I was originally looking to use "pene-enclave" as
>a strictly topological designator (an enclave joined to the parent
>entity or another enclave at a single point), and would have used it
>as such if Brendan hadn't fixed my misapprehension. It leaves us, as
>you say, with a need for a name for the topological, strictly BP item
>of which we now have four on land and one at sea at the EEZ level. And
>I do like your coining clavicle, which a bit of Latin etymology would
>link to clavicula, a tendril - and what is a point connection but the
>limiting case of a tendril?
>
> > & i would add tho not to you grant
>Good of you to specifically exclude me, but are you and I not as
>guilty as anyone, after our recent off-message straying into palindromes?
>
>Grant
>
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