Replying to LO26951 --
Dear Barry,
I worried to communicate with Rumi's fire, we might have some issues of
'degrees of affinity'.
Yesterday I read Murray Gell-Mann's The Quark and the Jaguar and smiled
with N. Wiener's remarks to Viki Weissokopf that he thought every European
intellectual must speak/know Chinese.
Weeks ago I read H. A. Simon's Literary Criticism and Cognitive Science, he
quotes
-- Je comprends mal ce texte--
-- Laissez, laissez! Je trouve de belles choses. Il les tire de moi..
(Paul Valery, Instants)
and we ( me and one of my French friends) were all out of our ken. So
perhaps someone in this list might help me.
But Rumi's ' ...and yet the soul is not for everyone to see.' is
interesting. Some of our friends might agree with him, even to the extent
of 'the soul of an organization'.
Simon believes that looking at one's eyes, we can see many things, and if
one can describe well about the 'soul', then we can program it. Are his
Models his soul? Or they are like many rivers flowing into one harmonious
ocean? Did his talent and character make his 'departments' and
'university' differently? Did his (organizational) design talent with his
character make his style?
About 10 days ago, one of leading architecture department heads here told
me that the most often used term in last generation 'reviews of students'
designs' is ' it doesn't make sense'. And now, ' the passion is
missing...'
We thought that 'passion' in this context is not a 'character' but an
'anxiety' in the teachers and the school.
Shall we start new ones with passion? It might make sense to most readers
here.
Regards,
Hanching
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