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From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Sacred numbers and geodesy Part II — Hoofdstuk Geodesy is measuring. Sacred numbers are rhythm. The guild splits them. 72, 2160, 25920, 43200 belong in the language guild…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Civic service Part III — Hoofdstuk Food, roof, care, land. Not a slave year. Sunday stays family. In the author’s other writing stand the pieces of a better country:…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Enoch — why this book is here Part II — Hoofdstuk (Watchers) Enoch — Ḥănōḵ — is not a church father and not a guild saint. He is the dossier of a memory that wants to be…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — King lists — all of them, the sacred numbers out of them Part II — Hoofdstuk The king list is not a pedigree to save a crown. It is a clock dressed as biography. Sumer…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Almanac — the same book every year Part IV — Hoofdstuk This is not a tear-off calendar. No moon phase of 2026. No tide atlas that lies next year. This is the machine…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Sargasso, seabed samples, Carlson, Sahara Part II — Hoofdstuk This chapter was added later. The old book remains. Here the answer to the question: are there samples in…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — General tutoring and the diploma Part I — Hoofdstuk A guild without a common floor becomes an island of specialists who no longer understand each other. Therefore general…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Caribbean: emptied, repeopled, banks under water Part I — Hoofdstuk The previous page on the Taíno remains. That is about disease, hunger and force after 1492. This…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Tutoring as an open cupboard, quarter after quarter Part I — Hoofdstuk Everything in this book is tutoring. Not only the compass and the plant. Also Piri Reis. Also…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Geometry and the shop of life Part I — Hoofdstuk Two subjects too often set up as a wall. Geometry as school-fear. Economy as a quarrel. In tutoring they are tools. Who…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Geometry — the long book in tutoring Part I — Hoofdstuk The short page before was a door. This is the house. Geometry is not a quarter-hour. It is one of the thickest…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Randall Carlson’s lesson — form, measure, cycle Part I — Hoofdstuk Carlson is master-builder and land-reader. He says: geometry is not decoration. It is the mould behind…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Sacred number — the number as rhythm Part I — Hoofdstuk A sacred number is not magic. It is a number people keep putting back into stone, list, circle and year until it…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Sacred geology — the ground as writing Part I — Hoofdstuk Sacred geology is not a new church. It is the refusal to read the ground only as a depot of gravel. Carlson…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — The court jester — the lesson upside down Part I — Hoofdstuk Through Europe walked a figure who might say what the pulpit left lying: the court jester, the sot, the fool,…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Plants of vision, stoned ape — no recipe Part I — Hoofdstuk Lesson on psychoactive plants belongs in tutoring as history of the mind, not as kitchen. Eleusis and the…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Voices — each his own, in my words Part III — Hoofdstuk Hereafter each named voice gets its own room. No transcript. The author’s sentence. Between quotation marks a…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — More guilds, more colour Part I — Hoofdstuk Each guild a colour, often a gradient with brown of the earth. Doctor or professor in the matter: white over it. Who wears…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Music corps and scouting, young and old Part I — Hoofdstuk Two guilds that make the hall audible and visible in the street. The music corps carries Friday. Scouting…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Scouting does not stop Part I — Hoofdstuk Ordinary scouting stops when the child outgrows the neckerchief. Here not. The neckerchief stays. The group stays. Sixteen is…
From The New Guilds — discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Speleology, geology, the trek Part I — Hoofdstuk The earth guild does not stay in the hall. Speleology: cave, dry passage, lime, water you hear before you see it.…
From The New Guilds — handbook chapter. Discuss here. Hoofdstuk — The cycle cash-box Part I — Hoofdstuk Membership alone does not keep a hall. The second breath is the cycle. Everyone may bring: leftover lot,…
From The New Guilds — handbook chapter. Discuss here. Hoofdstuk — The line of cloth Part I — Hoofdstuk Clothing is the largest mountain that comes into the cycle. Therefore its own line, not a box in the corridor.…
From The New Guilds — handbook chapter. Discuss here. Hoofdstuk — The provincial day Part I — Hoofdstuk Once a month the whole province in one house. Not a congress of badges. A school day of the guilds together.…
From The New Guilds — handbook chapter. Discuss here. Hoofdstuk — Can this. Who waits. What it is not. Part I — Hoofdstuk Yes, pieces of this can. No, not everything at once, not everywhere, not as a church replacement…
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