blog (May, 2005)
golden mean
The outward work can never be small
If the inward one is great,
And the outward work can never be great or good
If the inward is small or of little worth.-- Meister Eckhart
conjugate conjugar conjugal
X : It is an extension of the problem of choice; a man's choice depends entirely on himself, on his capacities, faculties, etc. The least of his actions is a choice, the moment he acts he has chosen, it is over. One chooses without stopping. Moreover, it is interesting to create a conflicting situation which is put into relief by a reality, the ruling of the game.
...MB : It's true that the young Pascal's calculating machine was first of all a toy to him. Montherlant considers that life should be lived as a game, and cites Schiller's phrase "Man is the full man only when he is playing".
X : Doing mathematics, physics, it's all a game; doing something we are passionate about is a game, doing something that doesn't interest us is a game in reverse, one is forced into it, otherwise one loses something else.
MB : One "plays" music . . .
X : "One plays" mathematics, "one plays" atomic bombs: one person makes it, another receives it, the whole of society and its game blends with creation.
-- Iannis Xenakis: The Man and his Music, (interviewed by Mario Bois)