Ya se ha oído hablar de las riquezas de Sigfrido: el tesoro y el reino de los Nibelungos estaba a su disposición; distribuyó aquel tesoro abundantemente entre los guerreros —y sin embargo no disminuía, cualquiera que fuera la cantidad tomada.
El cantar de los Nibelungos. CANTO VIII De cómo Sigfrido se dirigió en busca de los Nibelungos. Edit Olimpo.
De entre todas las cosas, siempre me asombra de los cuentos que en ellos exista tanto oro; que no entiendo como no pierde su valor al pasar de un metal no tan fácil de encontrar, a un metal tan abundante (pero solo en las manos de X) que debería dejar de ser valioso al instante.
«In music, a sequence is the restatement (fancy word for repetition) of a motif or longer melodic (or harmonic) passage at a higher or lower pitch in the same voice…>>1
AHA…WHAT ABOUT COMICS?!
If you mix all that together and think my word is worth something; then:
A sequence is a succession of images in regard to the actions taking place in the different scenes of a story, which are implicitly related one to each other.
Puff, I sweated to get that. Yes, I know. But I’m only your average Jane trying hard using her brain.
REGULARITY AND PREDICTABILITY
Such a definition takes us back to graphic communication features: regularity and predictability.
I know. It’s almost as if I could see your confused face. “I don’t get it”, is what the gears in your brain go turning as you are for sure thinking: “Are you talking nonsense?” Nonsense is my second name so I won’t discuss that.
Regularity means to favor the elements in an equal scale or shape to create an order or a correspondence. That’s how you create a bunch of vignettes in the same size and create patterns in the same way music does2. 1, 2, 3… 1, 2, 3…4.
Predictabilityis to use such a pattern, order or correspondence for the reader to find what they is waiting to find. Example; if in the first vignette Bat… The bat chap, raises his fist to hit the villain, we expect the next vignette to be such fist connecting against the villain’s jaw as the following vignette is splattered in blood. This is a sequence.
We see an image, we expect for something, make a correspondence and imagine the next.
Is that how order matters?
TO BE CONTINUED
What follows is how a sequence is the easiest way to build up a melody in XVIIIth and XIXth centuries. ↩︎
Me, I have no idea about music except that you can count with it. ↩︎
Home she gets and there, among books she stays. Feet over the couch, Table for tea and on her knees the crumbs. Out she goes and surrounded by tales she works. Describing every fish and stone, the words. A lily or headpiece. A meaningful stream of sorts.
She reaches her hand, By size or hue, Flickering they come. Endless, in white. Inky and not finite. Comet like, frail stars.
And as she turns back, At infinite dark damned waters she stares large.
Quería decirle: mira, la vida de los gnomos y duendes es desagradable, brutal y breve. Ellos también.Quería decirle todo eso, pero no pudo. Dosflores deseaba ver el infinito, pero en realidad nunca salía de los límites de su propia cabeza. Decirle la verdad sería como dar una patada a un perro de aguas.
Rincewind piensa. La luz fantástica. Terry Pratchett.
And here I am again trying to mix what looks like water and oil… Let’s start with the most obvious of questions.
WHAT’S A SEQUENCE? OXFORD DEFINITION
This time, since I’m consulting a digital online version —so I can just copy-paste instead of typing, the dictionary is an Oxford and not my loyal Merriam Webster.
sequence /ˈsiːkw(ə)ns/
I. noun
1. a particular order in which related things follow each other • the content of the programme should follow a logical sequence • [ mass noun ] the poems should be read in sequence .
2. [Music] a repetition of a phrase or melody at a higher or lower pitch. • a restless search for interesting harmonic sequences.
3. [Biochemistry] the order in which amino-acid or nucleotide residues are arranged in a protein, DNA, etc. • these are enzymes which will cleave only at specific base sequences in the DNA.
4. a set of related events, movements, or items that follow each other in a particular order
6. [Mathematics] an infinite ordered series of numerical quantities.
No, this isn’t useful yet. And I’ll have to translate and apologize for, I don’t remember what book this is from.
WHAT’S A SEQUENCE? MATHEMATICS’ POV
<<In Mathematics, a succession or whole sequence is a whole numbers succession (in other words, an ordered list). A whole succession can be specified explicitly through a formula for their n-th terms; or implicitly by establishing a correspondence among its terms. E.g. An implicit description for the Fibonacci succession 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13… would be; “a succession is one to start with the numbers 0 and 1; adding two of the consecutive numbers to obtain the following one”>>.
Things begin to make sense. But it is not enough yet….
Je veux de être le renard. Je veux de regarder la mer et pensant que je regard ton yeux. Noirs? La profondeur mere. Bleus? La couleur de la surface. Vertes? Le changeume eau. Le couleur est rien. Je veux de être apprivoiser. Je veux de savoir que tu est ici. Une heure de toujours. Un toujours de les jours.
¿qué tiene de malo la lectura? Nada, por supuesto. Pero una vez que asignamos un valor intelectual al acto en sí, no solo pasamos por alto la naturaleza del propio texto, sino que convertimos en universal y unidimensional algo que en esencia es un proceso de participación privado.
Contra la lectura. Mikita Brottman. Blackie books. [The Solitary Vice (Counterpoint, 2008)].
Asignar un valor intelectual a una actividad, la que sea, constituye ir en contra de la idea de la libertad de expresión. Condenar o apreciar una actividad más que otra sólo porque le asignamos una etiqueta, es ir en contra de la individualidad y la diferencia. ¿Escribes pensando cómo tu escritura afecta la idea de las actividades individuales y sus etiquetas?
