Guest guest Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Hello All, I too am fascinated and would like to learn more from Dr. Mary Ann. She seems to have a very good bit of insight and would like also to know when her thesis may become available for all to read. I also wish she would post material and insight here on the forum as I would be most interested in learning more. Kindness Regards, Chuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Dear Chuck, ihitesharma and All, Dr. Mary Ann is in the process of scaling down a huge thick book which is the size of one of those giant dictionaries; it could be approximately 15 by 5 inches long (i hope i am not exaggerating, but when i saw it, it was immense). In its present state, it is at its academic/scholarly level, and like a lot of scholarly/academic books needs to be scaled down-to-size for public consumption. As it is, it is like a research book for professionals. Mary Ann told me that she had one editor look at it, and they could not scale it down-to-size because it is like a work of inter-related poetry. Take out one stanza, and you lose the effectiveness of the whole (only they called it 'taking one strand out, and you lose the effectiveness of the whole understanding). So, it is really up to Mary Ann herself now to scale that down as only she really knows the work through-and-through enough to do so most effectively. This is a big job in itself. So, we will have to be patient, but i can assure you, this is/will be done and the book will be published and we will let you know on this forum when that happens. warmest regards, violet , " Chuck " <chuckhennigan@ ....> wrote: > > Hello All, > > I too am fascinated and would like to learn more from Dr. Mary Ann. > She seems to have a very good bit of insight and would like also to > know when her thesis may become available for all to read. I also wish > she would post material and insight here on the forum as I would be > most interested in learning more. > > > Kindness Regards, > > Chuck > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Dear Forum Thank you to all of you who have contacted me regarding my thesis. Violet has taken the initiative to tell you that the task is not simple, and I thank her for that. I would like to explain a little of the context in a personal message. The style the thesis is written in is not really linear, even though it exists in the linear world of academic and scholarly research works, that require thesis or hypothesis, antithesis and resolution; a beginning, middle and end, a little like life on earth as each one lives it, from birth to death. The sciences and humanities all still follow the basic Newtonian and Enlightenment line, which is peculiarly Western and derived from its mindset, even if now ideas are starting to percolate in from, for example, theories of relativity and a quantum universe. In actual fact, the academy follows its time-worn model. So I set out to make a hypertextual document, one with many links, but which holds together as a standard thesis, while it is nothing like it at all. But how otherwise could one dig into and open the field into understanding the basic building blocks of the mind we now inhabit, as a dominant enclosure, in the West, the mind that fast is colonizing the entire world, and offering ways to find one's way out of its container? As my original discipline was actually art, I still consider a picture is a 'thousand words'. I know this is not answering the many questions of 'when can we see it?' But as the editor said to me last night: 'You spent 14 or so years writing this, how do you expect the average reader to get it in one book?' She also recounted she only reads 10 pages a day, so as to digest it fully. We are stuck with the form of it, which is academic and full of references, but at the same time, as she has said to me, it is really a painting, a picture. So now I am in the task of reworking it for mainstream, while juggling this. It has become, in a way, the same task I had previously; to fit the academic world, only now the focus is onto the reading public at large. This email is not intended to answer all questions, just to let you know I have read all your emails and I am grateful for them, and will write again, in my 'space' and to share with you more, as I have also been asked several times to do that. Thanks again. Warm Wishes Dr Mary Ann Ghaffurian , " Violet " <violet.tubb wrote: > > Dear Chuck, ihitesharma and All, > > Dr. Mary Ann is in the process of scaling down a huge thick book which is the size of one of those giant dictionaries; it could be approximately 15 by 5 inches long (i hope i am not exaggerating, but when i saw it, it was immense). > > In its present state, it is at its academic/scholarly level, and like a lot of scholarly/ academic books needs to be scaled down-to-size for public consumption. As it is, it is like a research book for professionals. > > Mary Ann told me that she had one editor look at it, and they could not scale it down- to-size because it is like a work of inter-related poetry. Take out one stanza, and you lose the effectiveness of the whole (only they called it 'taking one strand out, and you lose the effectiveness of the whole understanding). So, it is really up to Mary Ann herself now to scale that down as only she really knows the work through-and-through enough to do so most effectively. This is a big job in itself. > > So, we will have to be patient, but i can assure you, this is/will be done and the book will be published and we will let you know on this forum when that happens. > > warmest regards, > > violet > > > , " Chuck " <chuckhennigan@ > ...> wrote: > > > > Hello All, > > > > I too am fascinated and would like to learn more from Dr. Mary Ann. > > She seems to have a very good bit of insight and would like also to > > know when her thesis may become available for all to read. I also > wish > > she would post material and insight here on the forum as I would be > > most interested in learning more. > > > > > > Kindness Regards, > > > > Chuck > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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