[Xmca-l] Re: Parts and wholes
Helena Worthen
helenaworthen@gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 09:43:24 PDT 2016
Definitely as reported by an Italian.
Helena Worthen
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Vietnam blog: helenaworthen.wordpress.com
On Sep 1, 2016, at 7:51 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."
>
>
>
> --
>
> It is the dilemma of psychology to deal as a natural science with an object
> that creates history. Ernst Boesch
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