Value for Friday of Week 28 in the season of Ripening

Being Comprehensive

There is no precision without comprehensiveness – things would be missing.

  • No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should itself point the way to a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case. [Albert Einstein]
  • There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. [Saul Bellow]
  • Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies. [attributed to Jim Clyburn]

Another characterizing feature of transcendence is comprehensiveness. The transcendent person leaves no stone unturned.

Real

True Narratives

(Leonardo) filled the opening pages of one of his notebooks with 169 attempts to square a circle. In eight pages of his Codes Leicester, he recorded 730 findings about the flow of water; in another notebook, he listed sixty-seven words that describe different types of moving water. He measured every segment of the human body, calculated their proportional relationships, and then did the same for a horse. He drilled down for the pure joy of geeking out. [Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci, (Simon & Schuster, 2017), p. 521.]

Our narrative includes impressive bodies of work, which took years or decades to create. It also includes stories of people who invested the time and effort to appreciate them fully.

Technical and Analytical Readings

Encyclopedia of Life is a site created to chronicle every living species.

Photographs

Documentary and Educational Films

Imaginary

Fictional Narratives

Poetry

Music: Composers, artists, and major works

Several musical artists have recorded a composer’s complete works, of a kind. Many artists have performed/conducted complete symphonies, string quartets, piano sonatas, concerti and other works by great and lesser composers. This listing will be limited to a few massive artistic outputs. Some of the great intensive traversals of the musical arts are:

Works in which the composer aimed at completeness:

Music: songs and other short pieces

Visual Arts

Film and Stage

The Noel Coward Collection;

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The Work on the Meditations