{"id":4,"date":"2013-04-22T05:21:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T05:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2022-12-16T01:20:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T01:20:58","slug":"types-and-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/22\/types-and-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Types and Patterns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why call this site &#8220;Types and Patterns?&#8221; Not a title that sings, by itself. As it happens, I borrowed it from a poem:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>ALEPH am I,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The First and the Root.<br \/>\nFrom mine unfathomable Will<br \/>\nThe universe hath its beginning.<br \/>\nIn my boundless Wisdom<br \/>\nAre the types and patterns of all<\/em> <em>things<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is from the chapter on the Fool, from\u00a0&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Book of Tokens,<\/span>&#8221; by Paul Foster Case, a 20th century author on the subject of the Tarot (you can learn more about his work from his society&#8217;s webpage, <a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bota.org\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). His was a very appealing interpretation of the Tarot (certainly, appealing for artists). &#8220;The Book of Tokens&#8221; was used by those writers to help clarify a particularly difficult turn of events in their own story, and as it turned out, their methods help clarify a lot of things about storytelling, to me.<\/p>\n<p>So for me, this dry title evokes this site&#8217;s subject: problem-solving when it comes to understanding story structure. The Fool is a good starting point, and a touchstone in navigating the currents of someone else&#8217;s story, or your own. According to Case, the attributes of God, when projected onto an ordinary man, matches the common description of a fool, and to be sure, anyone in the role of storyteller (or someone trying to decipher the methods of a storyteller) is in the position of being both divine and human at the same time. Hence, a fool. Or as Case describes it: &#8220;the inexperience at the beginning of all life,&#8221; whose virtues are &#8220;originality, audacity, and venturesome quest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The quote above seems to describe a God-like wisdom: but in mortal terms, it seems to describe the exercise of creative power, which eventually leads us, artist and audience, somewhere beyond ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>So it seems wise to start with this card on the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why call this site &#8220;Types and Patterns?&#8221; Not a title that sings, by itself. As it happens, I borrowed it from a poem: &#8220;ALEPH am I, The First and the Root. From mine unfathomable Will The universe hath its beginning. In my boundless Wisdom Are the types and patterns of all things.&#8221; This is from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}