vortex
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
A mass of air or water that spins round and round, pulling things towards its centre, like a whirlpool. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the mystic school: In note 08 the 6 is a vortex turning inward and the 9 a vortex turning outward; PageRank is the 9 of the web and anti-trust rank its 6.
examples
- The 6 turns inward: a vortex drawing everything down to its centre. (note 08) tree →
- The 9 turns outward: a vortex releasing from its centre back into the world. (note 08) tree →
- Somehow the outward vortex kept turning for twenty years, and almost nobody turned the inward one back. (note 08) tree →
- Write a 6 and turn the paper upside down: it is a 9; the note reads them as one spiral wound two ways, the 6 a vortex drawing inward to its centre, the 9 a vortex releasing outward into the world. (lesson 019) tree →
- The 9 got famous and the 6 stayed a paper; the outward vortex kept turning for twenty years and almost nobody turned the inward one back, and the note warns that a system that only spins one way is not balanced, it is just falling. (lesson 019) tree →
note
A record of the mystic school, written from the notes.
Trees and pragmatics
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