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THE WORKER ANTS MANIPULATE THE LARVAE AS SPINNING INSTRUMENTS AND SHUTTLES FOR MAKING NESTS

“It is not that the corporeal form and structure of the worker ants and of the larvæ which they manipulate as spinning instruments and shuttles for making the nest, are necessarily simpler and, on that account, more comprehensible than are the instinctive acts of the workers, but that during our whole lives we have been familiar with structure, and ourselves exist as ‘structural organizations.’”

Ritter, William Emerson. The Unity of the Organism: or the Organismal Conception of Life. Vol. Two. Two Vols. Boston, 1919: Gorham Press. p. 313.

REALITIES AS THO ANY OF US WERE OF A MOBILE SPINNING EACH POINT THE VIEW IN A ROTATING GEOMETRY

“He sat under the kitchen table, writing furiously into a notebook every word we said, Emily scolding, the bright light of a bare bulb on a dark-painted walls, the Kelly green fridge, the rest of us drinking or smoking dope, but it was his kitchen. The competition of these realities, as tho any of us were of a mobile, spinning, each point the view in a rotating geometry. What is to be taken as no information, decisions made each time we cross the street.”

Silliman, Ron. The Age of Huts (compleat). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. p. 42.

University of California Press

LATITUDES DON'T CHANGE THEIR ORDER THOUGH SPINNING THE MANY BIRDS MIGRATING WITHIN SOLITUDES

"...but it wasn’t until five years later, when, thanks to Jalal Toufic I encountered the notion of “the differend” that I could begin to discern the extent of the problem with it. Still, the latitudes don’t change their order though spinning the many birds migrating within their solitudes. Philip has remained sardonic but he has become less discontent, Amanda has weathered meno- pause but has little advice to offer Kate, who remains disdainful, for her part, of Julian’s continuing noble hypocrisy, Gil is out of seclusion and playing the violin, Carol has lost weight and Florence has gained it, Dmitri scowls and now speaks seven languages whereas Ralph only speaks local idiolects, and Petra speaks too often and too loudly of her son..."

Hejinian, Lyn. My Life and My Life in the Nineties. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. p. 137.

PRIMAL ENGAGEMENT WITH STORYTELLING WITH THE SPINNING OF A FICTIONAL WEB CHARACTERS UNFOLDED EVER

“What hooks me back into the Proustian fabric is something other than an existential dimension, it is a more primal engagement with storytelling, with the spinning of a fictional web in which characters are unfolded ever so slowly, so slowly that they change over time.”

Stern, Lesley, and Amy Adler. Diary of a Detour. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. p. 167.

Duke University Press

A ROOM WHIRLS IN THE AIR LANDS ON A TABLE SPINNING SPINS AND THEN SETTLES SETTLES PERFECTLY INTACT

“A bowl of noodles is flung across a room, whirls in the air, lands on a table, spinning. Spins and then settles, settles perfectly intact, ready to be eaten.”

Stern, Lesley, and Amy Adler. Diary of a Detour. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. p. 150.

Duke University Press

DONE IN YOUR HONOR AND I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN YOU MAY YOUR SUN SHINE DOWN UPON MY SKIN IT IS AHUN

- Line 20, Yeechesh Cha’alk, Alex Hunter and Eva Trujillo.

THE DAY WEARS ON THERE IS MUCH JOSHING AND SPINNING OUT OF REPARTEE BITS AND PIECES OF VERBAL

“There is much joshing and spinning out of repartee, bits and pieces of verbal exchange are tossed hither and thither, everyone enters into the fiction that this is just an ordinary day, a day like any other.”

Stern, Lesley, and Amy Adler. Diary of a Detour. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. p. 24.

Duke University Press

UNDIFFERENTIATED SUBSTANCES TO BE DISCRIMINATED BY SPINNING THE MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF PROTEINS COULD HARDLY

“The centrifuge (on the left of Photograph 3), for example, was devised by Svedberg in 1924 and was responsible for creating the notion of protein by allowing undifferentiated substances to be discriminated by spinning (Pedersen, 1974). The molecular weight of proteins could hardly be said to exist except by virtue of the ultracentrifuge.”

Latour, Bruno, and Steve Woolgar. Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986. p. 65.

Princeton Press

SNAP THEN JUST LIKE THAT THE GREEN KITE WAS SPINNING AND WHEELING OUT OF CONTROL BEHIND US PEOPLE

“I could almost feel our string sawing his. Almost heard the snap.

Then, just like that, the green kit was spinning and wheeling out of control.

Behind us, people cheered.”

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 1993. p. 370.

OVER TWO PERMITS TWO WAYS OF ORIENTING THE SPINNING PARTICLE IN A MAGNETIC FIELD NEUTRAL PARTICLES

“For example, the electron, which constitutes a part of ordinary matter, and the positron, which is the antielectron, have opposite electric charges, - e and + e, respectively; their masses are the same; and each has a spin represented by the spin quantum number ½, which permits two ways of orienting the spinning particle in a magnetic field.”

Pauling, Linus. General Chemistry. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 2014. p. 803.

ACS Publications

LIGHT EMITS AT ITS EDGES THE MATERIAL OF THE SPINNING STAR MOVING TOWARD US AND AWAY FROM US

“By good fortune the rate of spin of a star can in many cases be detected by a careful study of the light it emits, since at one of its edges the material of the spinning star may be moving toward us and at the other edge moving away from us.”

Crick, Francis. Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature. New York: Touchstone, 1982. p. 100.

POSSIBLE THAT THE PROTOSUN WAS ORIGINALLY SPINNING MUCH FASTER WITH THE DUST CLOUD REVOLVING

“It seems possible that the protosun was originally spinning much faster, with the dust cloud revolving around the sun going correspondingly more slowly.”

Crick, Francis. Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature. New York: Touchstone, 1982. p. 100.

TWENTY LIGHTYEARS OUR OWN GALAXY IS A SLOWLY SPINNING IRREGULAR DISK OF STARS DUST AND GAS ABOUT

“There are about a hundred stars within twenty light-years. Our own galaxy is a slowly spinning irregular disk of stars, dust and gas, about 100,000 light-years across, containing perhaps 1011 stars.”

Crick, Francis. Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature. New York: Touchstone, 1982. p. 35.

THE ADDITIONAL POTENTIAL ARISES BECAUSE THE SPINNING ELECTRON HAS AN INTRINSIC MAGNETIC MOMENT

“The additional potential arises because the spinning electron has an intrinsic magnetic moment, and ‘an electron moving in [an electrostatic] potential ‘sees’ a magnetic field’.18 ”

Cartwright, Nancy. How the Laws of Physics Lie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010. p. 46.

Oxford University Press

HALF A MILE ABOVE THE WORLD TWIRLING AND SPINNING IN VIOLENT CURRENTS HURLED BY GUSTS OF BLUSTERING

“He would picture the feather coming loose from the bird, up in the clouds, half a mile above the world, twirling and spinning in violent currents, hurled by gusts of blustering wind across miles and miles of desert and mountains, to finally land, of all places and against all odds, at the foot of that one boulder for his sister to find.”

Hosseini, Khaled. And the Mountains Echoed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. p. 49.

MODIFICATION OF THE COCOON SPINNING ACTIVITIES SPINNING POWERS OF THE LARVA PRODUCE AN ENVELOPE

“And when the workers of OEcophylla or Polyrhachis use their larvæ for weaving the silken envelope of the nest, as described in Chapter XIII, we have a further extension and modification of the cocoon spinning activities. In this case the spinning powers of the larva are utilized for the purpose of producing an envelope, not for its individual self, but for the whole colony.”

Ritter, William Emerson. An Organismal Theory of Consciousness. Boston, 1919: Gorham Press. p. 55.

EASE AND GRACE ONE KNOWS WHAT IT IS TO BE A SPINNING BALL OF CLAY A CURL OF PURE WHITE WOOD OFF

“This is the surprise of discovering oneself needing no self, one with the work, moving in disciplined ease and grace. One knows what it is to be a spinning ball of clay, a curl of pure white wood off the edge of a chisel—or one of the many hands of Kannon the Bodhisattva of Compassion.”

Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 148.

BOOTS THAT SLIGHT ELECTRICAL HUM OF THE CLOCK SPINNING WHEEL NEXT TO A REDWOOD DESK THAT SUCH A

“Bright red laces hang from empty hiking boots. That slight electrical hum of the clock. Spinning wheel next to a redwood desk. That such a large, billowing sleeping bag could be stuffed into such a small sack.”

Silliman, Ron. "From "OZ"." Conjunctions, no. 9 (1986): 31-39. Accessed May 25, 2021.

DOWNSTREAM TIMBER CUT IN THE DISTANT MOUNTAINS SENT SPINNING ON WATER LODGED IN TWIGS AND MUD AND STONE

“The river carried logs downstream, timber cut in the distant mountains, sent spinning on water, some get lodged in twigs and mud and stone along the shore.”

Howe, Fanny. Holy Smoke. New York: Fiction Collective, 1979. p. 85.