THING-ING ALONG

THING –ING ALONG,
‘JUS’

FILLING IN THE QUADRANTS OF TOKENSPACE

For psychosemiotics the word THING is prima materia . Unrefined pure gold.

Hell, IT IS PSYCHOSEMIOTICS IN A NUTRSHELL! … as if what we are doing here (oops) needed a token of its own for neat self-reference. “JUS’ SING-ING A SONG ….– ong–ong …“JUS’ THING –ING ALONG.”

1. CHURINGA! --
carved board or stone of Australian aborigines, often with hole drilled, attached to a string and whirledd overhead by children as toys; also, special ones becoming sacral, venerated objects whose meaning and use belong to those on earth in The Time Of Dreaming.

Associates with

2. The HARMONY OF THE SPHERES.

The Pythagorean bowl universe (see ENDOMORPHS: 3-Dimensions of space with diameter from any given point extending equally to the circumference called “Time”, bounding the outermost circle of fixed stars),
when taken as actually permeating the experienced world, raises….

… the CHURINGA question: Why don’t we hear the spheres?
“Some think it necessary that noise should arise when so great bodies are in motion, since sound does arise from bodies among us which are not so large and do not move so swiftly; and from the sun and moon and from the stars in so great number, and of so great size, moving so swiftly, there must necessarily arise a sound inconceivably great. Assuming these things and that the swiftness has the principle of the harmony of reason of the intervals (distances between planets scaled by ratios of string-pressings, plucked, to give the 7-tone octave – arithmetic ratios Pythagoras perhaps discovered himself – ed.) , they say that the sound of the stars moving on in a circle becomes musical. And since it seems unreasonable that we also do not hear this sound, they say that the reason for this is that the noise exists in the very nature of things, so as not to be distinguishable from the opposite silence; but the distinction of sound and silence lies in their contrast with each other, so that the blacksmiths think there is no difference between them because they are accompanied to the sound, so the same thing happens to men.”

Stone deaf to sphere harmony we’ve grown.

3. Separate the “TH-“ from its “-ING”
The suffix “-ing” is used in English grammar to expresses an ongoing action: dance…dancing; sight…seeing; to be … being. It carries the textual sense of “manifesting”. This misleadingly equates meaning in sign-use, which is manifesting through the token (and intention), and occult powers in objects (e.g., magnets). The point of “-ing” is tokening the participation. “-Ing” is the sound of the Ongoing, as a rushing wind, or song. As a bowler will try to control his ball after its delivery with contorted “body English”, so “verbal English” puts the user (through choice of token) out there with the text in tokenspace (the twinning). It is like saying “now”. Indexed to a specific place and time, according to law of production.

“TH-“ is a two-letter consonant for a sound of great antiquity, pervading ancient Egypt and Mespotamian languages. “Thoth”
is the audiogram of enormous intellectual force felt as the presence of a consciousness in the Pyramid, personified. “TOT” is the way some authorities say its pronunciation should be spelled, softening the “h”. But “h” cannot be ignored, probably surviving for a reason. “THE”, of course, goes over to the definite article Bertrand Russells seized on to make a logical name for himself by analyzing. But it has several other uses, as a token, outside the grammar of logical text. “The ‘the’”, for instance, summons up tokens of units (“the ones…”), prefixes of indefinite referrers (“this, that and the other”), intellectual soul- completion (“theology”), …. Much more could be said about “Th-“, but…

Consider “The Thing”. As the double sign of pure indefiniteness in communication, this goes over into “saying saying nothing”; making it the appropriate movie title for force of Evil created and empowered by fighting “it” (=what is created by the sign-use). “-Ing –ing Along” can degenerate into “pouring from the empty into the Void, without metaphysical context.

4. “-Inging” along with conscious sign-use necessitates feed-back.

The necessity derives from the context of embodied communication, where action begets reaction, push-pull, and the sensitive self-monitoring all-segment consciousness is aware of what is taking place, in an instant in the instance. This is an intractable fact of communication, sealed off as a dinge an sich -- thing in itself – as an adjascent coordinated Quadrant (Quadrant IV, QIV): that which receives and gives back, as a result of, the Action*. Thus, paradoxically, in the Fourth Quadrant, there occurs a genuine Union of Opposites: the deepest, innermost data of gross body self-observation – “How’m I doin ?” is linked in communication, along a seam stitching the 7 Token types of assign-use for the individual, with “What reality is telling us.”

This is why Quadrant IV is named “the –ing”. It contains nothing more, in itself, than content dumped into it from the other three, as the result of the QI-QII-QIII- -IV progression in a counter-clockwise loop over the top, in an imaginary cycle activating the systems and functions, such as memory, require to “kick in” in the process from INPUT (QI) to OUTPUT (QIV), through the center twice, gong and coming, ever under completion). This dynamic geometrical lay-out, on the Tablet of Tablets, closes the systems that generate sign-use on themselves, while not closing them off from external and internal sources of fresh data. The full schema of the 7-Token Type model of conscious sign-use is the major single construct, the Bible of psychosemiotics (under constant fine-tuning and revision-through-application)

5. Other fascinating Thing ‘s

-Do your own …
-It’s all the ….
-The … is…
-If it ain’t one damned … its another
-The play is the…
-The …. of this world shall pass away