Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems.
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. . . Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. . . Music should never be harmless.
Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.
I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.
I think there is something about being described and having your abilities described as something definable. I was diagnosed at about six, when a teacher couldn't understand how I could be a bright girl and yet couldn't read yet. I did that whole backwards letters thing. I used to sit in the same place when I did homework because I remembered that B's went towards the window and D's went away from it.
Shaunti wields the researcher's clipboard, the analyst's data, and the counselor's insight to bring the excellent newsflash that great marriages are the culmination of definable, repetitive micromovements that add up to deep relationship satisfaction.
As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.
If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.
