reidsport oregon
day 2
yesss perpetua haute prep is out for winter holiday
so we pointed the binnacle again yesterday from rostah cay this time south
&or east but definitely far out to another pointing marathon in another key
so we will be quasicommunicado again for awhile & indeed hopefully for
another worlds record
but brendan what a pleasure to find you were playing with this magic moment
too all the while & have even hung your thesis on it & i can tell you it has
already been gratefully accepted by the entire faculty here even in absentia
yesterday day 1 we only made 4 miles due to high wind & rain but are this
morning bearing down for a third try at photographing usorca from orsw & to
bag another hemboldt point & then maybe some more nepotism in cali &or
sawanabori on steens mountain for the probabilities are looking
multiliferate at the moment but should clarify in a couple of days
our glacial speed reminded me jack that the ice man didnt need a passport
because he already knew home is where the feet are & he was covered anyway
as a dependent on the glaciers passport
m
anton can you discern if we are getting any warmer on this bearing
>From: "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: "Pene-enclave"
>Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:52:33 +1100
>
>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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