_Is a very simple myth._
>The practice, for example, of seeing in a “distance” two marked positions on a particularly rigid body is something which is lodged deeply in our habit of thought. We are further accustomed further to regard three points as being situated on a straight line, if their apparent positions can be made to coincide for observation with one eye, under suitable choice of our place of observation. Einstein, Special Theory of Relativity, p. 5.
>Never being on the right side of the Atlantic is an unsettled feeling, the feeling of a thing that unsettles with others. It’s a feeling, if you ride with it, that produces a certain distance from the settled, from those who determine themselves in space and time, who locate them selves in a determined history. (Moten & Harney 2013, p. 97.)
**Links to**: [[Ratio]], [[Chunk]], [[Parse]], [[Space]], [[Mark]], [[Cut]], [[Intuition]], [[Table]], [[Diagram]], [[Schema]], [[Schematism]], [[Pareidolia]], [[Diagrammatology]], [[Line]].
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Talk about how when in 0 g floating disorientation looking at a line can cure dizziness. So perception does bottom out in many respects at linearity. Line of hunting, Longo, line of geometric orientation Kramer, line of Horizon, horizontality of dying. Lachlan kent