[Translator’s note: Sadly no completed
chapter for this lamina was found amongst the author’s papers, only
a short page of notes written after an apparent mishap, which we
present here in its stead, in as equivalent form to the original
notes as possible. Due to extensive shorthand and hurried penmanship
these notes have been particularly difficult to
decipher.]
Taxonomy,
draft and old notes lost in departure from [illegible], jotting down reminders from
memory for now
crystal lattice · cataloguing nested/overlapping ontologies,
universally each [illegible]
balanced on verges vs present on lamina, verge > severed and
remaining here, “lost” on cardinal
lost objects in Hive
SKEINS · delightful petitioners, bizarre questions, intently
learning not sure what? asked Rowen about his [unknown glyph] and color perception, me
about Bloom/Islet tea, Soblei bead map, Tristo’s riddle,
doppelganger experiment, took copy of notes &c
“essentialists” · material cause, formal cause, efficient cause,
final cause · answering “why?” for each
unlocking/understanding & grouping by surface [illegible] filament: [unknown glyphs]
visual distortion effect · imagine folding paper · this is the
topology [illegible] & so maps
differently here
STORAGE · only what they lack, perfect handling, they will study
it
things they won’t store
defense against treasure hunters · obscurity & size
perfectly unambiguous language · all statements inflected w
emotional attitude, confidence, source, level of agreement,
&c
transportation network · all laminae?
TODO(maybe use scribal shorthand here!! but would translator
translate it?)
Collecting everything in a crystalline library hive, for cataloging
and categorization according to infinitely varied sets of overlapping
ontologies, none of which can be argued to be a universally useful or
applicable paradigm. Also, free storage of stuff they don’t have? Lost
and found?
Everything is collected (in some unusual architectural shape, maybe
captured in some preserving gel that floats and is connected to some
crystalline structures).
could be collected via verges, but some way of ensuring the object’s
safety - objects verged into the collection tend to be miraculously
resilient - the church that is the only building left standing after a
volcanic eruption wipes out a town, the delicate string instrument that
has against all odds survived centuries, the artifact of glass or
ceramic in perfect condition, etc. other times, when this can no longer
be sustained, the verge is severed such that the object remains here,
such as a treasure lost at sea that is inexplicably missing when the
ruins are later dredged and searched
They’re “essentialists”: trying to define the essences of any given
object, but not into elements like fire or wind or even emotions or
tendencies like excitement or neuroticism, but into very specific
categories like “tending to ______” OR WAIT could be like counter words
in japanese.
People come here to discover and define themselves like
meyers briggs or astrology haha.
Is there some currency/market element to this?
the Mathematicians of Mechanus “hold that everything that you can
imagine can be found on Mechanus in some form, and by cataloguing this
and applying logic, symbolism and math to this one can unlock the
secrets of the plane. They don’t do this for riches or power: they are a
group of serious minds who want to discover the secrets of the plane for
scholastic reasons”. be different from this
some connection to [Timaresh](http://www.rilmani.org/timaresh/Timaresh)
where every written work in the multiverse is reflected, reproduced, and
stored.
include storing like styles/motifs, e.g. “Hamonshu - A Japanese Book
of Wave and Ripple Designs” and the tibetan book
storage
All or part of this plane is based around temporary and free, but
regulated and often indefinite, storage.
people come from all over the multiverse to store stuff there, and
they are REALLY GOOD at storage. they can store anything of any size,
with any magical qualities or dangers or challenges. some fastidious
dragons clear their treasure pits and store them for safekeeping, some
store vanquished foes, cursed magical heirlooms, exotic pets, botched
experiments, anything.
there are conditions to storage. maybe it has to be something they
don’t currently have? and if that’s the case, they will store it for
free, in flawless condition, taking care of it if necessary. part of the
condition though maybe is that they have to be allowed to study it? can
they touch it? they’ve never been known to mess anything up though. is
there anything they won’t store?
- name
- The Antechamber
- The Articulation (group in ꩧဥꧠ)
- The Axiom (element in ꩧဥꧠ culture)
- The Canon
- The Concordance (ꩧဥဓ)
- The Elucidation
- The Essentialism
- The Formation
- The Keyhole
- The Lattice
- The Membrane
- The Multitude
- The Presupposition (thing tacitly assumed beforehand, requirement
for belief (system) to make sense)
- The Reification
- The Reticulum (fine network or netlike structure, veins or nerves
disposed like threads of a net) (place in ꩧဥꧠ)
- The Sequitur (“it follows” - conclusion, deduction)
- The Sum
- The Taxonomy <–
- demonym
- Archivists
- Axioms
- Keys
- Skeins <– (but could be good ꩧဥဓ)
- Syllables
- Sums
- Vowels
- quotes
- “All things will be in danger of being taken in a sense different
from their own proper sense, and, whilst taken in that different sense,
of losing their proper one, if they are called by a name which differs
from their natural designation. Fidelity in names secures the safe
appreciation of properties.” Tertullian, De Carne Christi 13:2 (ꩧ၇ဓ?)
- environment
- culture
- cardinal interaction
info gathering
- questions
- future research
- possible elements
- breaking down all of these
https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.md.html maybe ꩧ၇ဓ or ꧪ၇ꧠ
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_causes - material, formal,
moving, purpose - ꧪ၇ꧠ and/or ꩧ၇ဗ or ꩧ၇ဓ
- formlessness vs EXTREMELY existent
- Lost and found (maybe in ꧹ဋꧠ or ꧹၇ꧠ or ꩧ၇ဓ or ꧹၇ဓ or ꧹ဋဗ) (maybe
connected through some weird backdoor to the storage plane?) (i guess
꧹၇ဗ too, maybe a rumor of a lost objects
troupe you can sometimes find stuff in)
- non-euclidean/visual distortion like Rorik Smith polyhedral pics or
something (ꧪ၇ꧠ? ꩧ၇ဓ) ꩧဥꧠ uses but not
really geometric, more just weird
- strange loops - used in ꩧဥဓ as
stone-cutter, but could re-appear elsewhere
- Synthesis facet? relies on the existence of structured/hierarchical
stuff but also violates it. LXX or NXX. ꩧ၇ဓ
ꩧဋဗ ꩧဥꧠ ꩧဋဓ ꩧဥဓ
- language where you can easily indicate things like how confident you
are in something or whether you support it - ꩧ၇ဓ?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban “Lojban has a fully developed
set of metalinguistic and emotional attitude indicators that supplant
much of the baggage of aspect and mood found in natural languages, but
most clearly separate indicative statements from the emotional
communication associated with those statements. This might lead to freer
expression and consideration of ideas, since stating an idea can be
distinguished from supporting that idea. The set of possible indicators
is also large enough to provide specificity and clarity of emotions that
is difficult in natural languages.”
- some kind of transportation system? mechanical or biological. ꩧ၇ဓ?
- notes
- research notes
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