{"id":56476,"date":"2017-08-14T16:04:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56476"},"modified":"2017-08-14T16:04:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:04:33","slug":"stunning-dillard-solar-ratio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56476","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Dillard solar ratio"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — mathematics and metaphor, a ratio of the irrational ]
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\nA total solar eclipse in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway, on March 20, 2015 — Jon Olav Nesvold<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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From Annie Dillard’s Classic Essay: ‘Total Eclipse’<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Annie Dillard<\/strong> is one of our great stylists, so it’s perhaps not surprising she came up with this jaw-dropping piece of mathematics, or should I call it logic? It’s a ratio, anyhow:<\/p>\n

Seeing a partial eclipse : seeing a total eclipse :: kissing a man : marrying him<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By common consent, ratios are usually applied to quantifiables — but there’s really no quantifying seeing, kissing, or marrying. <\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

I don’t think I’ll be able to make the eclipse, but if any of you can, please do. No less an authority than Annie Dillard — she wrote Pilgrim at Tinker’s Creek<\/a> and Holy the Fir<\/a>m — strongly advises it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — mathematics and metaphor, a ratio of the irrational ] . A total solar eclipse in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway, on March 20, 2015 — Jon Olav Nesvold ** From Annie Dillard’s Classic Essay: ‘Total Eclipse’: Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,859,652,418,655,875,758,1406,1296,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-form","category-literature","category-logic","category-mathematics","category-metaphor","category-quant-qualit","category-rational-irrational","category-sun","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56476"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56484,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56476\/revisions\/56484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}