{Circle and Sphere Directions [continued (3)]}[12th September 1989]

[Redbook6:234-235][19890912:1002d]{Circle and Sphere Directions [continued (3)]}[12th September 1989]

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Sharp and Wide or Broad is attractive for F and I* [respectively], but slightly begs the question of globe and cone (they can co-exist, of course~).

How about Sharp and Flat for F and I* [respectively]? 

I do rather like that (cf [JRR] Tolkien’s curious description in the Ainulindalë, the beginning of the Silmarillion and the most overtly religious of his fictional works which I have read: ‘Now the Children of Ilúvatar** are Elves and Men, the Firstborn and the Followers. And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in the Deeps of Time and in the midst of the innumerable stars. And this habitation might seem a little thing to those who consider only the majesty of the Ainur,*** and not their terrible sharpness: as who should take the whole field of Arda**** for the foundation of a pillar and so raise it until the cone of its summit were more bitter than a needle; or who consider only the immeasurable vastness of the World, which still the Ainur are shaping, and not the minute precision to which they shape all things therein.’). 

 On the other hand, its musical connotations may not be quite what is required.

*[See last previous entry]

**(The Creator, The One, God)

***(The ‘gods’ or angels)

****(‘The Realm’, ie the Earth)

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