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Thanks so much for everyone's kind remarks. "Haptomancy" indeed! Thank you, David! I think I will go out now to photograph and "bark" among some more trees. Well, actually, I have to work, too. Stephen V http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ --- On Thu, 6/25/09, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Late Snap - Vincent To: [log in to unmask] Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 11:33 PM Interesting script, tree bar cracks. Early Chinese diviners +read+ the marks +felt+ in cracked turtle shells, this haptomancy eventually grew into the I Ching. 2009/6/26 Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> > Those marks become a kind of calligraphy, the autobiographical skin - > which, indeed, as you suggest, Andrew, may point to more incisive records > within the trunk itself. > > I am always wondering where first scribes got inspirations for their marks > before making 'intelligible' shapes on their own. Of course, there is > scholarship about this, but I always find it refreshing to be - as many no > doubt here - out about among 'the primaries'. > > Stephen V > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > > --- On Thu, 6/25/09, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > From: andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Late Snap - Vincent > To: [log in to unmask] > Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 6:03 PM > > Great, Stephen. I too stare at tree barks - its their history on their > skin, > yet we know there are deeper rings of history inside. Andrew > > 2009/6/26 Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> > > > I just posted a new blog piece, "Tree Haptics" (by and on real trees) > which > > is my snap du jour. As always, appreciate responses. > > Go to: > > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > > > > Stephen V > > > > > > -- > Andrew > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > -- David Bircumshaw "Nothing can be done in the face of ordinary unhappiness" - PP Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk