Let me tell you something- and where exactly do we end up? What domain but that magic realists world of meaning. For how can the description not ripple with meaning. But this is a strange flat world, for the contours, which appear fixed initially are clearly moving one against the other, as the plan evolves and changes. moreover the dimensions of the plan are far from fixed it might be growing it might be shrinking. Nor are even the dimensions necessarily fixed, what you thought was miles might be an inch, an inch might be a mile: and always watch out - you might far off- this little isle of meaning.
Meaning always creates odd worlds in the telling. There are perhaps five pillars to the strange land. firstly of course everything is weaved by the linear shuffle of sentences that operate backwards and forwards, weaving a meaning that of course at least one more dimension. paths then appear in the process, paths that might be going somewhere or nowhere or perhaps just not where you thought. The temporal reality of reading or speaking translates into an allegory where the very linearity of words reflects the movement of time. except of course the world that forms, the domain of meaning is not formed at one time or an other- it might self consciously straddle many times, and many paths across other times. The line a sentence mirrors time, certainly but is also free from it in itself.
Secondly any domain of meaning is at once self contained and in the spinning at least singular. It will the contain its own set of meaning as a thing apart from the rest of the world. the domains of words, meanings, memory, perception, the light of a mind and the tempest of a passion, are all therein the meaning, and yet as all held under it grasp- all aspects or shining parts of its world. As such meaning will organize its world, it will make its own facts follow there own logic. there are of course in this styles manners, even grammars for meaning - Their are approaches then one might take, and possibly local rues,that define the dimension of this chunk of meanings (and allow it to be articulated to others).
Thirdly these world are real flat earths. they have then their own horizon line - but one that could be reached, and if one does reach, one falls off, and tumbles again in a void beyond meaning. But to where is the problem, it is possible that this world is merely a foot above another or it might be in an abyss. the horizion line is then a place of danger. One might see something there or one might not. One might step or fall, or retrace ones step.Or I might and you might not.
One might even earn (if the meaning allow it) to tread paths between worlds, to thread across the stepping stones of local meanings finding loops, or looking for them. one might then start to capture meaning local worlds in other, world with a dimension of their own. Indeed this is possible, and yet of course if one does thins these other worlds do not contain meaning but are rather self contained world for themselves. The fact this other world of many meanings allows a certain degree of mapping to occur across other domains, does not give it mastery. And way jumping is always risky (in both direction), for it is always possible you will not be where you thought you were .....you might even blow into an abyss.
Fourthly although each are different, each domain also may well have aspects or contours similar to other panes. There might then exist for many planes one way to map out the meaning in any one plane. to map out a scientific hunk is to create a different world from a story chunk, and to do it in a different ways. the spinning of the meaning out, is important as it reflects both the way others can explore the domain, and also articulated this domain against other domains or even the cross domain meaning lumps. each world then might be complete it itself or create bounded voids within itself), and yet be such that the loop to others is made clear - or hopefully is clear.
Finally good meaning tend to reduce both author and reader to an everyman. They inspire both to explore, and to want to explore, both this world (and possibly to inspire a leap into the abyss beyond). To be caught in meaning is then to become the anyone meaning needs to exist, to infuse to share itself with. As I read or learn of a meaning i might be located at a place in the world it creates, and yet that location, in the reading, in the spinning is always also a provocation to look to other places,and let ones mind wander as a sub author on the text, working out other ways other dimensions for the meaning. It is the power the of the truly great meaning domains that as they are unpulled or spin, we feel we are as much as part of the process of the thinking as anyone. Meaning always needs to run between us all and its domains are thought and felt as everyone (rather than a mere transcendental ).
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