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Last week I read through Kloppenborg (ed) _Conflict and Invention_ [Trinity, 1995]. One of the essays contained in the book was Jonathan Reed's "The Social Map of Q." It seems to me that the tactic Reed uses to identify the geographic locales in Q may suggest a way to approach Thomas so that, in a very preliminary way, the outlines of its social context can be more clearly identified. I doubt that Reed had this in mind when he examined Q, but his method is almost exactly
the same as one that is used by software developers when designing a new application. It is called ...
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It seems to me that the suits/symbols specification is the one element of piecpack that could easily be strayed from, in practice. By that I mean, I don't think an actual constructed or manufactured piecepack need to keep to the Crown/Moon/Sun/Fleur(Anchor) motif. Certainly the basic specification should remain as C/M/S/F(A), but a maker of a different piecepack style need only suggest correspondences between the basic spec's suits and those of the piecepack in question.
As an example, I recently adapt icons/symbols that Ed and I developed for a roleplaying game system to piecepack. It just happens that we developed eight icons, so it made the developement of a double piecepack with eight suits easy. This is the piecepack design I plan to use to construct my own piecepacks. The icons don't include a Sun, Moon, Crown, or Fleur (or an Anchor for that matter); the symbols are quite a bit more abstract than that, but are ...
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Seems to me that this latter example requires Too Much Work; it'd probably be best to put it together in a map. Let's see... :vmap gqcom 'mb:set lz:'a,'bAlign /\* \:'a,'bs/\s\+\*\/$//'a/\/\* /3lma \'b$:B norm! gq}:'a,'bs/$/\*\//'b\acom:set nolz The vmap is best used with the V command; use ...
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Areas of text may be connected in two ways: by links and/or by branches. A link goes from a point of departure to an entrance point in another, or the same, text area. Links are optional paths embedded in the text. A point within an area may also be given a name (label) and later summoned by name to the screen. The user goes from area to area by "travelling" ("jumping") via a link or a branch, or by "getting" a label. The text is repositioned on the screen, so that an entrance-point is always at the upper left
corner of the screen, and with as many text lines following it as will fit on the screen. Seems to me that this completely anticipates BT's claim language such as ".... in which plural bodies of information are stored at respectively corresponding locations, each of which locations is designated by a predetermined address therein by means of which a block can be selected ....". In this 1969 paper, we also read: ...
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Perhaps I am oversimplifying but it seems to me that they didn't know they had a problem and if they had suspected damage they had no way of inspecting it or repairing it. If they had made a decision that it was unsafe to risk a re-entry they had no contingency plans for safe harbour or rescue. ...
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