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From: lauf-s
To: DESIGN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: can we describe destiny, anyways?
Thanks for your opinion, and, so based, I can thus say that my utilization of calendrical coincidence as a 'leading thematic/compositional motif' of THE ODDS OF OTTOPIA has nothing to do with predestination, especially since all the characters of TOOO are dead--the passing over for them has already occurred.
the fact the characters you describe are dead doesn't mean some of them did or didn't consider their life as predestinated, and in your coincidental work you act basically as a kind of compilator of calendrical events, from wich you develop interesting comparisons...
and can we agree that death could eventually be considered as the unique example of a secure, guaranteed, predestination or destiny ?
also as the main contributor of tooo , do you consider you were predestinated to write it ? to look for and publish such sequences of coincidences?
what is the real motive of artistic or litterary expression ?
could it be a set of coincidences?
(we're relatively far away from design, even if designing a building includes some amount of intervention of the "destination" consideredc as the final use or purpose for wich such is designed.)...
design >< destiny (destination)(final use)
should we invent the expression pre-design , then ?
is design of some object the result of some coincidences on a given moment (materials and techniques available, (wo)man in charge (with all his backgrounds and visions), timing, ideas floating around ... ) ?
i would say so, and then any study of coincidences, not only calendrical, is certainly an interesting design (purpose...).
(like when new steel technology authorized the Art Nouveau, or higher skyscrapers...)
words can behave surprisingly.
as the minds behind them.
take care, Steve , et al..
P.
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