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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...around objects in its path naturally: just like water flows naturally around stones in a shallow stream and once having gone around the stone, it r... ... And then all the way around, into two circles. Into Two 1-dimensional Totalities that were not 2-dimension... ... hitting the boat and trying to get around it. Just like water going around a stone in a stream roils around right behind the stone, but not further... ...t places where squirrels choose to hide their stores of seeds and nuts. Most Northern forests are planned by the unconscious instinctive decisions o... ... drawing an imaginary line and splitting up countries into two segments… like Ireland? Or the American Civil War? Or South and North Korea? Or Nor... ...ey refuse to explain precisely it is what they do, to anyone not in the inner circles of their specialized sanctums. Not only because they are incap... ...strust, betrayal, self-interest, irresponsibility, and worsening corruption. Northern Europe threw its religious patronage system away almost compl...

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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