<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp98e4814ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hello Empyreans, <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Awkwardly, having lurked on so many previous</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">occasions, but I hope playfully as well, Maria, in</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">the senses you've set out, may I add a few ideas.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">For your hello has inspired me, so let me at least</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">note that. Then your mention of metaphor brought to</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">mind, first, its meaning as transfer--also transference?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Second movement in general, human participation,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">a baby's first exploration before birth, and after. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Movement I think as a weaving, a shuttling back</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">and forth. The plowing metaphor is also used to</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">refer to texts that alternate lines written from left</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">to right, then right to left, boustrophedon from Greek.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">In any event play as movement, whether ludic or</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">otherwise. People will already be familiar with</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">the book *Homo Ludens, which explores play in</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">many aspects. Finally the chora spoken of by</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Plato in *Timaeus (49a3-52b), a space/place of</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">creation. These first thoughts also in relation to</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">play's aporesis, and including what Murat speaks</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">of regarding weaving, for me always remiiscent</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">of the idea of the figure in the carpet. That in itself</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">seems to me to relate to a premising on shame</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">in Truong Trans's phrase, a more advanced stage</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">of maturation from that of the infant, when the per-</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">son's exploring hands weave through their pubic <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">hair, a spinning, a skein say, the sky..... <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Or some other object. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Best wishes and thanks, William<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></body></html>