Showing posts with label MeMe. Show all posts
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Monday 26 September 2022

MeMe

 

Rule #2 : 

Treat Yourself Like Someone 
You are Responsible for Helping.

Mister Six :
I've come a long 
way for You --

The Cosmic Hobo :
Naturally -- Don't expect any Thanks.




Angraecum sesquipedale. Beauty! 
God! Darwin wrote about this one. 
Charles Darwin? 
Evolution-guy? Hello
You see that nectary down there? 
Darwin hypothesised a moth 
with a nose 12 inches long 
to pollinate it. 
Everyone thought he was a loon. 

Then, sure enough, they found 
this moth with a 12-inch proboscis. 
"Proboscis" means nose, by the way. 

I know what it means. 

Hey, let's not get off The Subject. 
This isn't a pissing contest
The Point is, what's so wonderful is that 
all these flowers have specific relationship 
with the insect that pollinates it. 

There'scertain orchid looks exactly like a certain insect. 
So The Insect is drawn to This Flowerit's Double
its Soul-Mate, and wants nothing more 
than to make Love to it. 

After The Insect flies off, it spots another 
Soul-Mate Flower and makes love to it, 
pollinating it. 

And neither The Flower nor The Insect 
will ever understand The Significance 
of their lovemaking
How could they know that because of 
their little dance, The World lives
But it does. By simply doing what they're designed to do 
something large and magnificent happens. 

In this sense, They show Us 
How to Live. 
How the only barometer 
You have, is Your Heart. 
How when You spot Your Flower
You can't let anything 
get in Your Way. 



ANDREWS:
They may use The Furnace, 
but I want everyone in lockup by 22:00 hours.



We commit This Child and This Man 
to Your keeping, O Lord.
Their bodies have been taken from 
The Shadow of Our Night.



They have been released from all 
Darkness and Pain.

The Child, and The Man 
have gone beyond Our World.

They are 
Forever Eternal
and 
Everlasting

[Barking]

Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust




DILLON:
Why?

Why are The Innocent punished?

Rotweiler whimpers ] /
[ Ox Caucus Rumbles Deep and Heavily ]

Why The Sacrifice?
Why The Pain?

There aren't any Promises.
Nothing's Certain.
Only that some get Called;
some get Saved.

She won't ever know 
The Hardship and Grief for 
Those of Us, Left Behind.

We commit these bodies to The Void
with a Glad Heart --

[Growling]
 
For within each Seed, there is 
The Promise of A Flower.


And within each Death
no matter how small – 
There's always a new Life.
A New -- Beginning.

RAISES FIST ]

Amen.

PRISONERS : 
Amen.


St. Helena :
I just wanted to say 'Thanks.' 
for what you said at The Funeral.
My friends would have appreciated –

DILLON (jittery, and 
anxious as All-Fuck) :
Yeah, well, 
You Don't wanna 
Know Me, Lady –

I'm a Murderer, and 
Rapist of Women.


St. Helena :
.......Really.
Well, I guess I must 
make you nervous.

DILLON:
Do You Have any Faith, Sister?


St. Helena :
Not much.

 DILLON:
We've got a lot of Faith here.
Enough even for you.

St. Helena :
I thought Women weren't allowed.

 DILLON:
Well, We've never had any before – 
but We tolerate anybody...
Even The Intolerable.

St. Helena :
Thank You.

DILLON: 
That's just a Statement of Principle
Nothing Personal.

We've got a good
Place to Wait, here.
And until now... 
No Temptation.

*******

CLEMENS: 
Dillon and The Rest of the alternative people 
embraced religionas it were, 
about five years ago.
Take two.

St. Helena :
I'm on medication?


CLEMENS: 
Hardly.

St. Helena :
What kind of religion?


CLEMENS: 
Some sort of apocalyptic, 
millenarian Christian 
fundamentalist...


St. Helena :
Right.

CLEMENS:
Exactly. 
When The Company wanted to 
close The Facility, Dillon and the rest
of the converts wanted to stay.
With Two Minders and 
a medical officer.
And here we are.


St. Helena :
How did you get this 
wonderful assignment?

CLEMENS:
How do you like your new haircut?

St. Helena :
It's OK.


CLEMENS:
Now that I've gone out on a limb for you 
with Andrews, damaged my less-than-perfect 
relationship with him, and briefed you 
on the humdrum history of Fury-161 –
Can't you tell me what 
you were looking for?


St. Helena :
Are you attracted to me?

CLEMENS:
In what way?


St. Helena :
In that way.


CLEMENS:
You're very direct.


St. Helena :
I've been Out Here 
a long time.


Wednesday 8 June 2022

The Power of Two


Rule #2
Treat Yourself Like Someone 
You are Responisble for Helping.

Mister Six :
I've come a long way for You --

The Cosmic Hobo :
Naturally -- Don't expect any Thanks.




“However, You CAN Be 
in Two Places 
at once

….Spock, in this instance, 
Do Yourself a Favour

Set aside Logic 

Do What FEELS Right.








"We have The First Replicator 
on The Planet : Genes.
And we know the 
consequences of that --
Producing all these Organisms.

But, the idea about MeMes
is that they are 
a SECOND Replicator --

So, Genes are copied by chemical processes in bodies, 
MeMes are copied by IMITATION, and other kinds 
of interactions between 
Human Beings….

Hey, wanna buy some 
DeathStix…?

You Don’t Want to 
Sell Me DeathStix —

Err, I Don’t Want to 
Sell You DeathStix…

You Want to Go Home,
and Re-Think Your Life —


I Want to Go Home,
and Re-Think My Life….



“…..and very little in ANY other 
species at all -- and THAT'S 
what gives rise to 
Human Culture

So, the whole Theory about MeMes is ONE, of MANY ways of trying to understand 
The Evolution of CULTURE[s]."



square (n.)
mid-13c., "tool for measuring right angles, carpenter's square," from Old French esquire "a square, squareness," from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, back-formation from *exquadrare "to square," from Latin ex "out" (see ex-) + quadrare "make square, set in order, complete," from quadrus "a square" (from PIE root *kwetwer- "four").

 
Meaning "square shape or area" is recorded by late 14c. (Old English used feower-scyte). Geometric sense "four-sided rectilinear figure" is from 1550s; mathematical sense of "a number multiplied by itself" is first recorded 1550s. Sense of "open space in a town or park" is from 1680s; that of "area bounded by four streets in a city" is from c. 1700. As short for square meal, from 1882. Square one "the very beginning" (often what one must go back to) is from 1960, probably a figure from board games.
square (adj.)
early 14c., "containing four equal sides and right angles," from square (n.), or from Old French esquarre, past participle of esquarrer. Meaning "honest, fair," is first attested 1560s; that of "straight, direct" is from 1804. Of meals, from 1868.

 
Sense of "old-fashioned" is 1944, U.S. jazz slang, said to be from shape of a conductor's hand gestures in a regular four-beat rhythm. Square-toes meant nearly the same thing late 18c.: "precise, formal, old-fashioned person," from the style of men's shoes worn early 18c. and then fallen from fashion. Squaresville is attested from 1956. Square dance attested by 1831; originally one in which the couples faced inward from four sides; later of country dances generally.
[T]he old square dance is an abortive attempt at conversation while engaged in walking certain mathematical figures over a limited area. [The Mask, March 1868]
square (v.)
late 14c. of stones, from Old French esquarrer, escarrer "to cut square," from Vulgar Latin *exquadrare "to square," from Latin ex "out" (see ex-) + quadrare "make square; set in order, complete," from quadrus "a square" (from PIE root *kwetwer- "four"). Meaning "regulate according to standard" is from 1530s; sense of "to accord with" is from 1590s. With reference to accounts from 1815. In 15c.-17c. the verb also could mean "to deviate, vary, digress, fall out of order." Related: Squared; squaring.

 
square (adv.)
1570s, "fairly, honestly," from square (adj.). From 1630s as "directly, in line." Sense of "completely" is American-English, colloquial, by 1862.
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ex- 
word-forming element, in English meaning usually "out of, from," but also "upwards, completely, deprive of, without," and "former;" from Latin ex "out of, from within; from which time, since; according to; in regard to," from PIE *eghs "out" (source also of Gaulish ex-, Old Irish ess-, Old Church Slavonic izu, Russian iz). In some cases also from Greek cognate ex, ek. PIE *eghs had comparative form *eks-tero and superlative *eks-t(e)r-emo-. Often reduced to e- before -b-, -d-, -g-, consonantal -i-, -l-, -m-, -n-, -v- (as in elude, emerge, evaporate, etc.).
*kwetwer- 
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "four." 

It forms all or part of: cadre; cahier; carillon; carrefour; catty-cornered; diatessaron; escadrille; farthing; firkin; fortnight; forty; four; fourteen; fourth; quadrant; quadraphonic; quadratic; quadri-; quadrilateral; quadriliteral; quadrille; quadriplegia; quadrivium; quadroon; quadru-; quadruped; quadruple; quadruplicate; quarantine; quarrel (n.2) "square-headed bolt for a crossbow;" quarry (n.2) "open place where rocks are excavated;" quart; quarter; quarterback; quartermaster; quarters; quartet; quarto; quaternary; quatrain; quattrocento; quire (n.1) "set of four folded pages for a book;" squad; square; tessellated; tetra-; tetracycline; tetrad; tetragrammaton; tetrameter; tetrarch; trapezium. 

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit catvarah, Avestan čathwaro, Persian čatvar, Greek tessares, Latin quattuor, Oscan petora, Old Church Slavonic četyre, Lithuanian keturi, Old Irish cethir, Welsh pedwar.
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Definitions of square
1
square (v.)
make square;
square the wood with a file
Synonyms: square up
square (v.)
raise to the second power;
square (v.)
cause to match, as of ideas or acts;
square (v.)
position so as to be square;
He squared his shoulders
square (v.)
be compatible with;
one idea squares with another
square (v.)
pay someone and settle a debt;
I squared with him
square (v.)
turn the paddle; in canoeing;
Synonyms: feather
square (v.)
turn the oar, while rowing;
Synonyms: feather
2
square (n.)
(geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon;
you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides
Synonyms: foursquare
square (n.)
the product of two equal terms;
gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance
Synonyms: second power
square (n.)
an open area at the meeting of two or more streets;
Synonyms: public square
square (n.)
something approximating the shape of a square;
square (n.)
someone who doesn't understand what is going on;
Synonyms: lame
square (n.)
a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views;
Synonyms: square toes
square (n.)
any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles;
a checkerboard has 64 squares
square (n.)
a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles;
the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square
3
square (adj.)
without evasion or compromise;
a square contradiction
Synonyms: straightforward / straight
square (adj.)
leaving no balance;
my account with you is now all square
square (adj.)
having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle;
a square peg in a round hole
a square corner
square (adj.)
providing abundant nourishment;
four square meals a day
Synonyms: hearty / satisfying / solid / substantial
square (adj.)
rigidly conventional or old-fashioned;
Synonyms: straight
square (adj.)
characterized by honesty and fairness;
a square deal
Synonyms: straight
4
square (adv.)
in a straight direct way;
ran square into me
Synonyms: squarely
square (adv.)
in a square shape;
folded the sheet of paper square
Synonyms: squarely
square (adv.)
firmly and solidly;
planted his great bulk square before his enemy
Synonyms: squarely