Thief of Hearts - Maxwell Owen Clark

d' Maxwell Owen Clark I must learn how to count, … before I count things. The how comes before the that. Math is conceptual in its pedagogy, and intuitive in its practice. Other writing systems as well: conceptualized before intuited. Yet concepts are also just an accrual of intuitions, qua Kant. The intuitions actually came first, then, it's just that in their pedagogy they are presented in the re-form of their conceptualizations first, brought to bear on the child first because their phase of maturation is still yet before they can intuitively master and contribute, to whatsoever pre-intuitive conceptual fieldsxss they most desire or are apt for themselves.

of and by: Maxwell Owen Clark I open to a random page in the American Library edition of Stein: Writings 1932-1946 : " 372                               GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA Chapter III How can you tell if a country is young old or young young or old. Is it because all the animals that have lived in it are dead in it. Chapter IV As long as nothing or very little that you write is published it is all sacred but after it is a great deal of it published is it everything that you write is sacred. That has to do with whether the animals dead in it make a country as old as if no animals were dead in it. Has this to do with human nature or the human mind. And does any one need to wonder why. So in chapter three we consider these things the age of the world, the sacredness of writing and human nature and the human mind. Chapter III What is the relation of human nature to the age of...

---copied out by MOC. " Book-keeping, as the control and ideal synthesis of the process, becomes the more necessary the more the process assumes a social scale and loses its purely individual character. It is therefore more necessary in capitalist production than in the scattered production of handicraft and peasant economy, more necessary in collective production than in capitalist production. But the costs of book-keeping drop as production becomes concentrated and book-keeping becomes social."

of Maxwell Owen Clark The idea of a syllable, measured already in the archaic Tamil  Tolkappiyam  grammar-poem as equal to the time it takes to blink an eye—how to shear away from its historical forms their most archetypal kernel? How to model its highest invariances? As an inhabitant of the postindustrial northeastern United States, that Tamil grammarian-poets of at least 3,000 years ago wrote rigorous descriptions of the syllables of their oral language, even framed their entire linguistics and poetics on this exhaustive description of syllables, as a sort of "syllabics", if you will—it suggests too much perhaps to not still be nebulous. A blink. So too a unit. A pulse. One pulse. The atom of prosody. A genesis for arithmetic? A natal mathematics? An almost timeless imposing of measure. One waveform, trough to peak to trough, off/on/off, fort-da. An immemorial cut into the continuum. Instinctual quantification/qualification. But all of these yet are allusive determinations....