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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 chapter is the other question: were whole…
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 Hamlet’s Mill. Also Hancock, Carlson,…
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 baked a loaf, made a chair or set out…
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 books in the guild cupboard. Who only…
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 the visible world. Tutoring takes…
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 becomes a rhythm. The guild learns…
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 reads landscape as Santillana reads…
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, the Prince of Fools. Staff with a…
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 kykeon: dossier, possibly ergot, no…
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 short line to look up later. Dossier…
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 colours is addressed with the formal…
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 carries the land behind the hall. Both…
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 not an exit. It is a door to the adult…
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. Geology: the stone under the pavement, the…
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, clearance, too much paint, too much wood, too many chairs, too…
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. Guild of cloth: colour ink-black cream, needle and…
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. Speakers and professors all day. Masters of the hall beside…
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 with force. People are not all aimless. There are too…
Hoofdstuk — This was already there. The nineteen-nineties. Part I — Hoofdstuk Correction. The book may not pretend the guild falls from the sky. Who grew up in the nineteen-nineties already knew the substance without a…
Hoofdstuk — Paper that moves every month Part I — Hoofdstuk There is a point where government stops governing and starts writing. Then a jungle appears. The rule moves. The abbreviation changes. The counter slides. The…
Hoofdstuk — The market is not a shelf Part I — Hoofdstuk Who stands in Spain and looks for a litre of Melkunie, or the Chocomel of then, or the Dutch biscuit tin, or the German and Italian shelf you see in the advert,…
Subject — Handbook plates — all figures from the book The New Guilds — subject: figures The PDF carries the working plates of the handbook: Atlantic reconstruction at about −200 m, Carlson’s time-in-form, sacred number…
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