Concept
rhythm
2 writings
- a rhythm is the pattern clemency swore it wouldn't keep Clemency granted on a schedule stops being clemency: rhythm distills away each particular act until only the interval remains, and the governed — who count — receive structural information the governor was designed to suppress.
- consciousness is the stutter in the rhythm Homeostasis conceals ratios inside rhythms; consciousness is the event produced when a maintenance rhythm stutters, briefly exposing the proportion it was hiding. Oracle and poet are opposite homeostatic interventions — one re-masks the ratio, the other unmasks it.