Acoording to uhm, I forget who, but a guy who should know, let's say ~ can we say that? ~ see, what difference does it make what his name was......?
Well, people like to know your source when you start spouting off facts about things, or historical accounts, and so gradually you become inhibited to learn to put the person's name in there, you better remember his name sometime in the sentence you've already started, and try to get it to come out right.
And the names are good to know, for future reference and citation. Linkettes and linkeths.
(That other person might know who it is, and cue info. Or heck. Maybe not.)
But the most important part to me, is still the golden nugget; the concept or comment and where it fits in. And names are much much harder to remember than ideas, which are sometimes actually difficult to foget! Yah!
Amazing; isn't it. Trying to forget something you learned. Something that was an idea. But it's not very easy to remember the name of the miniature French Natural Letterist who thought it up. (Thinking goes "up.") (Except when you "sit down to think." It takes a while to catch up to where you were, before, then.)
It bugs Bunny.
If your deal in life is that you're going to have a theory, you should have a name, like Quark, to go with it. Otherwise get out - your theory will be rejected. Since I started taking over things.
I think Edward Thompson was his name. Ebglish naturalist, living in 1880 Japan. No, it was Edward Morse. Specialist who went there to study bi-valves. Really. On a boat. Traveled on a boat. (The valves were on the beach.) (Gay, straight, and bi.) Mussels. Morse became the only real documentarist of Japanese living structures of the time. (A friend at Cambridge shuttled him into doing it, saying "The Japanese of current and classical times will be extinct before the molluscs." Yah!) ( But I forget who THAT was. He was pretty smart, that guy. Perceptive. He was back in England, banging Eddie's wife.)
So anyway, Inspector Morse wrote, that the stiffened wooden structure of the Japanese paper and tile house was picked up by a herdito ("small herd") of men, as a unit, and placed back on its foundation pillar-stones, after an earthquake. No worse for wear and tear. Maybe some shims. ("Shimito")
It was allowed to "float" above the landscape.
(Therefore, "The Floating World." Ukiyo-e.)
I would mangle some moire of this, but I have some wives to bang. |
