Comments on: The Baroque Cycle http://www.geebobg.com/2007/01/15/the-baroque-cycle/ Americlecticintellectica Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:02:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: gee bobg » Blog Archive » What’s in a number? http://www.geebobg.com/2007/01/15/the-baroque-cycle/comment-page-1/#comment-291 gee bobg » Blog Archive » What’s in a number? Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:25:41 +0000 http://www.emphatic.com/bobg/wordpress/2007/01/15/the-baroque-cycle/#comment-291 [...] Zanshin is a Japanese word relating to follow-through (particularly in the martial arts), but it has other nice connotations too. We chose it after reading this passage in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash: The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this concept into English is like translating “fuckface” into Nipponese, but it might translate into “emotional intensity” in football lingo. […] “Emotional intensity” doesn’t convey the half of it, of course. It is the kind of coarse and disappointing translation that makes the dismembered bodies of samurai warriors spin in their graves. The word “zanshin” is larded down with a lot of other folderol that you have to be Nipponese to understand. [...] [...] Zanshin is a Japanese word relating to follow-through (particularly in the martial arts), but it has other nice connotations too. We chose it after reading this passage in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash: The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this concept into English is like translating “fuckface” into Nipponese, but it might translate into “emotional intensity” in football lingo. […] “Emotional intensity” doesn’t convey the half of it, of course. It is the kind of coarse and disappointing translation that makes the dismembered bodies of samurai warriors spin in their graves. The word “zanshin” is larded down with a lot of other folderol that you have to be Nipponese to understand. [...]

]]> By: gee bobg » Blog Archive » Trust no one http://www.geebobg.com/2007/01/15/the-baroque-cycle/comment-page-1/#comment-245 gee bobg » Blog Archive » Trust no one Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:41:06 +0000 http://www.emphatic.com/bobg/wordpress/2007/01/15/the-baroque-cycle/#comment-245 [...] (Incidentally, the taking-off of the world economy in just this way during the 17th and 18th centuries is one of the big backdrops for The Baroque Cycle [and it’s about a million times more interesting than that makes it sound].) [...] [...] (Incidentally, the taking-off of the world economy in just this way during the 17th and 18th centuries is one of the big backdrops for The Baroque Cycle [and it’s about a million times more interesting than that makes it sound].) [...]

]]> By: dkuznick http://www.geebobg.com/2007/01/15/the-baroque-cycle/comment-page-1/#comment-214 dkuznick Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:52:05 +0000 http://www.emphatic.com/bobg/wordpress/2007/01/15/the-baroque-cycle/#comment-214 You know about this, right: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/16/clooney_and_scifi_ma.html You know about this, right:

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