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time-based artlang (was Re: basic vocab)

From:Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 19, 2000, 3:20
In a message dated 2000:09:18 3:39:34 PM, yl112@CORNELL.EDU writes:

>> To me - ever since very little, time is neither linear nor perfectly >> cyclical... it seemed to be more like an everchanging weave of countless >> spirals that expanded and contracted, sometiming faster or slower. This >was >> based on my observations of the world around me as a little tyke: wow, >things >> happen in simultaneousnesses... > ><wry g> I don't have that particular worldview, but I do find the >concept of "the present" (as opposed to past, or future) extremely >difficult to "get." Future is fine. Past is fine. Present as >boundary-line is just too confusing. > >I think in seasons, not years; and also in "subseasons" within the hour, >the day. Someday I may make a personal artlang to express things like >this. >
That would be neat to see... czHANg