“There is no Space or Time
Only intensity,
And tame things
Have no immensity”
Mina Loy (1882–1966) Futurist poet and actress
Source: The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
“A thing named is a thing tamed.”
— Joanne Harris, book Runemarks
Source: Runemarks
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Context: Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. That is obvious. But what is just as obvious — and what is too often overlooked — is the fact that from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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Description of Life (Targ Editions, 1980)
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Source: Hellsing, Vol. 01
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Variant translation: Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, because things came first, and their names subsequently.
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Source: As quoted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) by Stillman Drake, p. 92
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Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist
Source: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979, p. 30
