648
to safely consume its local cyanide-producing Cathariostachys madagascariensis
species of bamboo,
6
if scrutinized indefinitely changes one’s attitude. From an interior desperation to that character of certitude. An individual who can wake up, count
numbers indefinitely, and be satisfied. A preoccupation with observing things, noting every leg of the millipede, must possess certain advantages unknown to unconsciousness. But what is unknown, versus known, offers no qualitative, definitive
success story. An alliance between Self and unknowable creatures and forces has
always reigned supreme in the mind. We stay involved with mysteries in ways that
cannot be put to rest on a shelf, or even on the printed page. There are no tests in the
wild for this sense of lost belonging.
To the extent we might want to perpetuate the clouds of unknowing
7
courts a
slow-breath mysticism. We witness this bivalence and dyad biology in everything
we perceive. Its conclusions are as rapid as the 268 miles per hour speed “at which
signals travel along an alpha motor neuron in the spinal cord, the fastest such transmission in the human body” amid the estimated “100 trillion neural connections, or
synapses in the human brain.”
8
Such details do not relieve the burden of Being, nor
make for a happy species. This much is a given.
6 See Ballhorn, DJ; Kautz, S; Rakotoarivelo, FP (2009). “Quantitative variability of cyanogenesis
in Cathariostachys madagascariensis- the main food plant of bamboo lemurs in Southeastern
Madagascar.” American Journal of Primatology. 71 (4): 305–15. doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/
ajp.20653. PMID 19132732.
7 Of the 17 known copies of the Cloud of Unknowing from the late fourteenth century, see British
Library Harley MS 2373 and Cambridge University Library Kk.vi.26.
8 See “Numbers: The Nervous System, From 268-MPH Signals to Trillions of Synapses,”
Fig. 70.1 A Scene in Contemporary Poland. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
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to safely consume its local cyanide-producing Cathariostachys madagascariensis
species of bamboo,
6
if scrutinized indefinitely changes one’s attitude. From an interior desperation to that character of certitude. An individual who can wake up, count
numbers indefinitely, and be satisfied. A preoccupation with observing things, noting every leg of the millipede, must possess certain advantages unknown to unconsciousness. But what is unknown, versus known, offers no qualitative, definitive
success story. An alliance between Self and unknowable creatures and forces has
always reigned supreme in the mind. We stay involved with mysteries in ways that
cannot be put to rest on a shelf, or even on the printed page. There are no tests in the
wild for this sense of lost belonging.
To the extent we might want to perpetuate the clouds of unknowing
7
courts a
slow-breath mysticism. We witness this bivalence and dyad biology in everything
we perceive. Its conclusions are as rapid as the 268 miles per hour speed “at which
signals travel along an alpha motor neuron in the spinal cord, the fastest such transmission in the human body” amid the estimated “100 trillion neural connections, or
synapses in the human brain.”
8
Such details do not relieve the burden of Being, nor
make for a happy species. This much is a given.
6 See Ballhorn, DJ; Kautz, S; Rakotoarivelo, FP (2009). “Quantitative variability of cyanogenesis
in Cathariostachys madagascariensis- the main food plant of bamboo lemurs in Southeastern
Madagascar.” American Journal of Primatology. 71 (4): 305–15. doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/
ajp.20653. PMID 19132732.
7 Of the 17 known copies of the Cloud of Unknowing from the late fourteenth century, see British
Library Harley MS 2373 and Cambridge University Library Kk.vi.26.
8 See “Numbers: The Nervous System, From 268-MPH Signals to Trillions of Synapses,”
Fig. 70.1 A Scene in Contemporary Poland. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
70 Of Malignant Variables