{Computerisation of C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis]? (1) [continued (3)]}[27th March 1991]

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But computerisation has to be considered. I am thinking of using a spreadsheet,* and I need to consider how I can relate the nature of the event to the nature of the time per C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] theories – as well as using only ASCII symbols, while avoiding those that commonly mean something else.** The latter problem may be only marginal, as my entries will be textual and data[,] and these symbols generally have meanings in program expressions (eg as arithmetic or rational operators).

From ASCII symbols 0-127[:]

[...]***

Other keyboard symbols:

[...]***

*(Have been for some time, actually) <910328>

**[ie presumably, something other than their ASCII meaning]

***[The rough workings tables & notes in the ms are not reproduced here since they appear to strike out almost all the ASCII symbols shown, refer to an early and now obsolete spreadsheet program, and do not appear, in the end, to have been used]

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{Computerisation of C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis]? (1) [continued]}[27th March 1991]

[Redbook9:13][19910327:1845b]{Computerisation of C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis]? (1) [continued]}[27th March 1991]

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[continued]

I badly need a system of symbols to identify different types of event or interaction. The types required only become clear as one works on the chart, and even then are further complicated by scaling – by the way differences in scale can change the type of an interaction (eg inter-national [sic] war becomes regional ‘civil’ war on a wider geographical, and probably a longer chronological, scale).*

My first idea is to use symbols of this sort:

>	attacks
<	is attacked by
>|	attacks unsuccessfully
|<	is attacked by unsuccessfully
^	revolts [...]
_
^	[revolts] unsuccessfully**
etc.

*{But see below [↓]}

**[In the ms the horizontal line touches the top of the in-line circumflex mark]

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{Computerisation of C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis]? (1)}[27th March 1991]

[Redbook9:13-17][19910327:1845]{Computerisation of C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis]? (1)}[27th March 1991]

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My (perhaps slightly extravagant) historical chronology chart* has got to the point where really it needs to be computerised – perhaps using a spreadsheet. But as a first attempt it has been useful and revealing, not only of potential C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] correlations but also of what is required, whether it is done on paper or on computer.

*[Ref (presumably) [[Redbook8:44-67][19901027ff]{Comparative Chronology}[27th October 1990]]]

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{A Northern Irish Joke}[27th March 1991]

[Redbook9:13][19910327:1400b]{A Northern Irish Joke}[27th March 1991]

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This has a distinctly Northern Irish (and perhaps N[orthern] I[rish] Protestant) humour to it: ‘What do you get when you cross Peter Brooke [the Northern Irish Secretary]* with the mafia?’ ‘An offer you can’t understand.’

**

*[Square brackets per ms, indicating insertion in ms]

**(per G[uardian] 19910327:9)

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{The Ottoman Circles}[27th March 1991]

[Redbook9:12][19910327:1400]{The Ottoman Circles}[27th March 1991]

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‘The [Ottoman]* ruling class divided into four functional institutions: the Imperial** (Mülkiye) Institution, led by the Sultan himslelf, provided the leadership and direction for the other institutions as well as for the entire Ottoman system; the Military*** (Seyfiye) Institution was in charge of expanding and defending the empire and keeping order and security within the Sultan’s dominions; the Administrative**** (Kalemiye) Institution, organised as the Imperial Treasury (Hazine-i Amire), was in charge of collecting and spending the imperial revenues; and the Religious/Cultural# (Ilmiye) Institution, which included the “‘ulamā’” (all Ottomans expert in the religious sciences), was in charge of organising the faith and maintaining and enforcing the religious law (Shari‘ah), its interpretation in the courts, its expounding in the mosques and schools, and its study and interpretation.’

#*

Note that, Islam being a religion of the Right,#** the G~ function has a highly right-wing tone: this is the nearest institutional Ottoman Islam can come to contemporary Revolution/Revelation, it seems, and its G~ orientation is distinctly relative.

#***

*[Square brackets per ms, indicating insertion in ms]

**C

***M~

****A~

#G~

#*[Source not given in ms, but most likely to be Encylopaedia Britannica as there is a note in the ms after the next entry that reading of E[ncylopaedia] B[ritannica] 28:890, ‘Turkey and Ancient Anatolia., had been completed. Accent marks have not been checked]

#**(ie as opposed to the Left)

#***{Perhaps this is why an Islamic revolution, when it does occur, swings almost instantaneously to the right – as in the case of Ayotallah Khomaini’s ‘revolution’ in Iran (despite being Shiite)}

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{Religious Revivals and Economic Cycles}[27th March 1991]

[Redbook9:11][19910327:1153b]{Religious Revivals and Economic Cycles}[27th March 1991]

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Interesting, too, if it turns out (as I suspect it does) that religious ‘revivals’ at or shortly after C,* being closer to the precise** cycle than than are economic cycles, are not the ‘result’ of hard times but precede them.

*[See earlier Volume/s []]

**[ie the theoretical 64-year cycle framework – see earlier Volumes []]

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{Economic Cycles: Inflation}[27th March 1991]

[Redbook9:11][19910327:1153]{Economic Cycles: Inflation}[27th March 1991]

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‘… I have produced a card which shows inflation up to the present. The earlier data is from Peter Wilsher’s book [The Pound in your Pocket],* later data is from published statistics and the most recent is from the annual retail price index.

‘It is shattering to see that inflation since 1909, at 49 times, is more than inflation between 760[ce] and 1909[ce]. There are people alive today who have lived through more inflation than occurred in the previous millennium.’

**

This is in accord*** with the theoretical application of C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] to economics drawn from the 64-year cycle,**** in which inflation might be expected generally to increase towards the end of a cycle (ie leading up to C). Given that the 64-year economic crisis is frequently delayed,# the inflation may also occur in the early years of the following precise cycle (ie until the economic crisis actually occurs).

*[Square brackets per ms, indicating insertion in ms]

**N[ew] S[cientist] 19910330:3, letter from Eric Johnson, Worcester.

[Presumably not New Statesman]

***[How?]

****[ie the theoretical 64-year cycle framework – see earlier Volumes []]

#[See earlier Volumes []]

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{The Soul’s Desire}[27th March 1991]

[Redbook9:10][19910327:0947]{The Soul’s Desire}[27th March 1991]

19910327:0947

b. In Hebrew, “nepesh”, which usually means “soul”, but whose primary sense is “throat” or “appetite”, whence “desire”, cf v[erse ]7.’

– N[ew] J[erusalem] B[ible][:] Qo[heleth (Proverbs)] 6:9, b Note.

{Oh}

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{Loaves and Fishes}[27th March 1991]

[Redbook9:10][19910327:0005]{Loaves and Fishes}[27th March 1991]

19910327.0005c

There is another* (but related) interpretation of the feeding miracles, whose position just before the Transfiguration may be intended to symbolise the turn-&-return** (ie through the same episode in a different way)*** approaching and leaving C**** (before and after would have been better).

		Loaves	Fishes	Men	Baskets of scraps of loaves	Fish scraps
(M[ark] 6)	1st feeding	5	2	(5x1000) 5000	12	‘with what was left of the fish’
(M[ark] 8)	2nd feeding	7	A few small fishes	About 4,000	7	(including fish? – see M[ar]k 8:14-21)

This is all, of course, highly speculative and somewhat fantastical.

*(cf earlier Vol[ume] [[Redbook6:148-150][19890713:1847a]{Loaves and Fishes Decoded}[13th July 1989]ff])

[for which also see Biblical text referred to]

**{(But see, versus this, earlier Vol[ume] [] re Gospel structure)}

***(Epiphany after Christmas in Church (i[nner] c[ircle]) year) <[19]910408>

****(See earlier Vol[ume]s [])

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{Twentieth Century Art}[26th March 1991]

[Redbook9:9][19910326:2315c]{Twentieth Century Art}[26th March 1991]

19910326.2315

[continued]

The last 100 years is [sic] perhaps the most fascinating period of visual (and other) arts ever – and particularly the period c[irca] 1900-1940. For me, working slowly through the history of visual art (currently interrupted by urgent computer work and even some law)[,] it is the * goal towards which I work, and which draws me on even through the sometimes rather tedious sidetracks which from time to time (rightly or wrongly) I feel compelled to explore.

*{(immediate)}

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{Fascism and Art [(1)]}[26th March 1991]

[Redbook9:9][19910326:2315b]{Fascism and Art [(1)]}[26th March 1991]

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[continued]

*

**

*– G[uardian] 19910326:32

**{& see [[Redbook9:19][19910331:1706c]{Fascism and Art [(2)]}[31st March 1991],] 19}

{cf [[Redbook9:73-74][19910411:0935#]{Aniconism}[11th April 1991],] 74}

{See also X: [] 347}

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{Art Nouveau Revival}[26th March 1991]

[Redbook9:8][19910326:2315]{Art Nouveau Revival}[26th March 1991]

199103262315

The “reason” why Gallé and other French Art Nouveau artists of the 1900s became popular again in the 1950s &/or 1960s* – after their sudden displacement by Art Deco in the 1920s/1925** – could be very simple, or at least simply expressed:

***

****

*{Have we had the Art Deco revival yet?}

Yes – also in the late [19]60s! (64G~1968; c[ontra] 64g|M1936) <910725>

**per S4C TV ‘Without Walls – for Love or Money’ [19910226]2230ff

***(Sorry about this – done on knee, watching TV)

****{See also X.[] 148}

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[Proverbs: Worry, & Talking][26th March 1991]

[Redbook9:8][19910326:1125][Proverbs: Worry, & Talking][26th March 1991]

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[continued]

‘From too much worrying comes illusion,

from too much talking, the accents of folly.’

*

*– Qo[heleth (Proverbs] 5:2

[Probably from New Jerusalem Bible]

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[Tech Problems][24th March 1991]

[Redbook9:8][19910324:1109b][Tech Problems][24th March 1991]

19910324:1109

[continued]

{This was the computer which developed so many faults I eventually returned it}*

*[MS note referring to recorded reading of technical computer books]

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[Proverbs: Time & divine attention][24th March 1991]

[Redbook9:8][19910324:1109][Proverbs: Time & divine attention][24th March 1991]

19910324:1109

‘What is, has been already,

What will be, is already;

God seeks out anyone who is persecuted.’

*

*– Qo[heleth (Proverbs] 3:15

[Probably from New Jerusalem Bible]

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[Islamic Truth][23rd March 1991]

[Redbook9:7][19910323:1353f][Islamic Truth][23rd March 1991]

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[continued]

--G[uardian] 19910218:35

‘PERSONAL

Face to Faith: Don Cupitt.

Islamic reality and tall stories’

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{Mild Dyslexia? [continued (5)]}[23rd March 1991]

[Redbook9:6][19910323:1353e]{Mild Dyslexia? [continued (5)]}[23rd March 1991]

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[continued]

[Source not given, but most likely to be the Times Literary Supplement. Article by AS Byatt, who died last week. <20231125>]

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{Mild Dyslexia? [continued (4)]}[23rd March 1991]

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[continued]

*

**

A large number of the symptoms given [marginal emphasis ‘I’]*** apply to me – in childhood, and/or even now. My younger brother and youngest sister **** are dyslexic (For an awful moment I thought I had spelt dyslexia wrong).

This would explain, perhaps, why I have never understood the common assumption that thought takes place in words.# For years thought and verbalisation were distinct sequential activities; now they generally occur almost simultaneously, but are still different.

*I do read slowly, and become tired quickly, but perhaps only in relation to my “intelligence”. I have difficulty in remembering the meaning of longer and more abstract technical words, eg in philosophy and language.

**-- G[uardian] 19910312:23

***[Marginal notes in order from top downwards:]

Talking was a real problem. I thought it was due to shyness.

I could never build kits.

I was ambidextrous and to some extent still am. [But see previous ts entry, fn=**]

My T.A. service was marked by difficulty in learning to reassemble a rifle or put a name to military vehicles which I did in fact recognise.

I was given a fairly rough time at school & at home for messy handwriting.

[I have more recently, on a hunch, confirmed the link or correlation between dyslexia, dyspraxia and autism – interestingly, a couple of fellow-members of my theatre company who are “on the spectrum” have offered the opinion that I am too. There again, for many years I’ve half-jokingly suggested that all men are borderline Aspergers, and that that’s fine, because somebody’s got to be....]<20240825>

****[Were. And a first cousin – in fact, 50% of the grandchildren of their mutual grandmother, who was from a family of 10 or so stage people spread over 2 or 3 generations]

#[& see, perhaps ironically, the next ts entry?]

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{Mild Dyslexia? [continued (3)]}[23rd March 1991]

[Redbook9:4][19910323:1353c]{Mild Dyslexia? [continued (3)]}[23rd March 1991]

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[continued]

**

***

*Presumably both sides could be equally highly developed.

**[Ref the other second marginal emphasis to the right of the text copied above: as may be related elsewhere in this journal, papers passed on to him some years ago show that the writer was born left-handed (despite having been told that he had been ambidextrous) and re-educated at an early age to be for practical purposes right-handed, but not very well]

***-- G[uardian] 19910308.33

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