[Xmca-l] Re: Parts and wholes

[Andy Blunden]

without people travelling across it, it is not a bridge.

A

------------------------------------------------------------
Andy Blunden
http://home.mira.net/~andy
http://www.brill.com/products/book/origins-collective-decision-making 

On 2/09/2016 12:51 PM, mike cole wrote:
> >From Italo Calvino, "Invisible cities" -- a conversation between Marco Polo
> and Kublai Khan, one of many. Some relationship here of constituting and
> instituting?
>
> mike
>
>
> Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone.
>
>              "But which is the stone that supports the bridge," Kublai Khan
> asks.
>
>              "The bridge is not supported by one stone or another," Marco
> answers, "but by the line of the arch that they form."
>
>              Kublai Kahn remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: "Why do
> you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me."
>
>              Polo answers. Without the stones, there is no arch."
>
>
>