The Maze

WashYourHands

WashYourHands

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Something where the trail you leave behind you (like in Greek myth) to find your way back out is mysteriously hoovered up b as you move along

You have to think you’ve mapped it only to realise you’re compromised to truly know you’re in one
 
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My first thought's always the bird's eye view. I have to consciously imagine myself within the maze to get that perspective. It isn't my natural inclination. It feels less like a maze if you can't see a decent chunk of it, more like a topless corridor.
 
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Hedges and statues. When I think concrete, I think labyrinth. I dunno that there's any distinction, but I get different images from the two terms.
 
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version said:
Hedges and statues. When I think concrete, I think labyrinth. I dunno that there's any distinction, but I get different images from the two terms.
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i think the difference is that one of them doesn't have junctions, just a twisting path, but i don't remember which is which :(
 
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The folds of the brain are patterned like a maze. Perhaps Kenner could have spoken literally when he described thought as a labyrinth.
 
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woops said:
i think the difference is that one of them doesn't have junctions, just a twisting path, but i don't remember which is which :(
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labyrinths only have one path, mazes have branching paths

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a big childhood disappointment was Hampton Court maze

beforehand, in my mind I imagined lush manicured grass and thick green hedges

but in reality the ground was tarmac decorated with bits of chewing gum, the hedges were dry, brittle, dead and dying leaves leaving whole patches where you could see through to the neighbouring paths and spot the dead ends , and they weren't that tall so even I, as a child could peer over them, and there were discarded empty crisp bags that had been deposited into them, took minutes to solve
 
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This place is great.

The Forbidden Corner – The Strangest Place in the World

www.theforbiddencorner.co.uk www.theforbiddencorner.co.uk

The Forbidden Corner is a unique labyrinth of tunnels, chambers, follies and surprises created within a four acre garden in the heart of Tupgill Park and the Yorkshire Dales

The temple of the underworld, the eye of the needle, a huge pyramid made of translucent glass, paths and passages that lead nowhere, extraordinary statues – at every turn there are decisions to make and tricks to avoid.
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Mr. Tea

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I remember being really pleased to learn that the verb 'amaze' comes from the noun 'maze', as in, to be dumbfounded, as if lost in a maze.
 
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The Garden of Forking Paths

The mathematical theory of bifurcation originated in the seminal work of Henri Poincaré on systems of non-linear differential equations. The term bifurcation was coined by Poincaré to designate the emergence of several solutions from a given solution. Whenever the solution to an equation, or...
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The Garden of Forking Paths

The mathematical theory of bifurcation originated in the seminal work of Henri Poincaré on systems of non-linear differential equations. The term bifurcation was coined by Poincaré to designate the emergence of several solutions from a given solution. Whenever the solution to an equation, or...
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What an apposite and intriguing thread to link to here! I wonder which hip young intellectual gunslinger started it?
 
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