Re: Visualisation in writing

Marilee J. Layman <marilee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 00:36:50 +0100, spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jonathan
L Cunningham) wrote:

Marilee J. Layman <marilee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:59:21 +0100, Tim S
<Tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Tried to pass for normal once. It didn't work out.

I was going to ask this on my LJ and forgot, so I'll do it here.

Think of the year as a circle and you're looking at it from slightly
above its plane. Winter is at the top. Is Spring clockwise or
counterclockwise?

Eh? It's a pity this thread has already exceeded its quotient of
boggles.

You don't think of the year as a circle, or some other continuous
device?

Ah, no. I think of it as a year. It's got months in ... stuff like that.
It's not a geometrical object. (Geometry is an area of mathamatics that
doesn't appeal to me a lot, although I concede that it can be useful.)

As I've said before, and despite my (perhaps optimistic) belief that I
could learn to visualise, I'm fairly non-visual.

If I thought of a circle at all, it doesn't have to *have* a clockwise!
Because it depends which direction you are looking from, and I don't
"see" the circle. But I don't think of a year as a circle anyway.

For the other half of your question. No, I don't think of it as
continuous either. A year has a beginning and an end. The default is
that it begins 1st January, ends 31st Decemeber, and then a new year
begins. (There can be "school years" and "financial years" which are
different.)

Do you visualise the pages of a book as continuous? Do they go clockwise
or anticlockwise? That's what your question sounds like to me :)

Jonathan

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"There's many a best seller that could have been prevented
by a good teacher." Flannery O'Connor
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