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Spring

Vernaria erumpens·the Sudden Green

From Latin ver, spring, and erumpens, bursting out, the season when life stored through the cold breaks out all at once.

Level: Conceptorganism
Phylum: Forceimage schema
Class: Outputits full bloom
Niche: Producerraw experience
Mode: Reproductionhow it keeps existing
Stage: Juvenileindividuating
Status: Living
Habitat: Forest

Its kinds · Roget, 1852: Time · Wilkins, 1668: Space · WordNet, 1990: Time · Llull, 1308: H · Vegetative

Sudden Green, the whole specimen — Plate LVIII. Vernaria erumpens, the whole specimen.

Spring is the season when life stored through the cold breaks open all at once, set off by lengthening days and returning warmth, and it spends in weeks what was saved for months.

Life saved through the hard season is spent all at once when the signal comes.

behavior It arrives from the south as a moving edge of green, opens everything at once, and is spent before anyone has finished looking.

provocation

What have you kept folded inside you, waiting for the days to lengthen?

Each draw is the being derived afresh by the current laws at another seed (laws §11); the chosen one leads (where they sit in the morphospace).

I Dissection

Each organ answers one question about the idea. The framed one, its output, is the dominant organ: the being's class, the one the idea could not lose and stay itself.

Kernel of Spring — Fig. 1. Kernel
Seed bank
Which premise, if it were false, would kill this idea?
Spring rests on stored life, the seeds, bulbs and buds made before the cold, which already hold the next growth folded inside them.³
drawn as: seed bank · view: pinned

Boundary of Spring — Fig. 2. Boundary
Photoperiod
What sets it apart from what it is not, and how does it keep that distinction?
It is held back by day length as well as warmth, since many trees and birds wait until the days pass a set length, and a midwinter thaw leaves them shut.²
drawn as: photoperiod · view: pressed

Intake of Spring — Fig. 3. Intake
Rising sap
What must it feed on to work? What has to be present, noticed or supplied?
It feeds on lengthening light and on stores laid down before the cold, sugar rising as sap in maples while snow still lies.²
drawn as: rising sap · view: in situ

Mechanism of Spring — Fig. 4. Mechanism
Bud break
How does it turn what it takes in into what it gives out?
When enough warmth follows enough chill, buds and seeds take up water and swell, and the leaves and shoots formed the year before push out within days.³
drawn as: bud break · view: microscope

Output of Spring — Fig. 5. Output
Full bloom
❦ dominant organ
What does it make possible, visible or knowable?
Within weeks it clothes bare branches in leaves and flowers, opens the blossom that stands between the tree and its fruit, and fills nests with young.¹
drawn as: full bloom · view: at work

Dispersal of Spring — Fig. 6. Dispersal
Green wave
What part of it travels into other minds, ideas and fields, and by what vector?
It moves north across a continent each year as a green wave that geese and other migrants follow, and a skein of returning geese has long been read as its sign.⁴
drawn as: green wave · view: magnified

Decay of Spring — Fig. 7. Decay
Petal fall
What can it not digest, where does it fail, and what does it leave behind for others?
It spends itself in weeks and ends at petal fall, leaving small set fruit for summer to ripen, and Carson warned that poisons could bring a spring without birdsong.⁵
drawn as: petal fall · view: exploded

II Meaning associations

No relations recorded yet.

descent membership food web resemblance or friction

Lineage

A founder, dissected by hand.

Kin

same kind in Roget Equinox, Eternity, Winter, Foresilence, Tide of Days

same kind in Wilkins Equinox, Eternity, Winter, Foresilence, Tide of Days

same kind in WordNet Equinox, Eternity, Winter, Foresilence, Tide of Days

same kind in Llull Breath, Entelechy, Metamorphosis

same phylum Diamond, Fear, Fire, Glossolalia, Oblivion, Storm, Volition, Rushmaker, Self-Ending Order

same dominant organ Apophenia, Awakening, Chiaroscuro, Echolalia, Emergence, Erosion, Glossolalia, Iridescence, Mimesis, Nostalgia, Placebo, Rain, Babelhum, Afterlistening, Tide of Days

Genome

release also in Glossolalia, Oblivion, Storm, Weightlessness
storage also in Winter
synchrony also in Shared Breath
growth also in Entelechy
renewal also in Ash, Fire, Oblivion

III In the world

Echoes

cherry trees in full bloom
geese returning in a March thaw
a maypole dance
Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

IV Record

How it was drawn

its draw 3, a point in the morphospace (laws §8), drawn by flux-2-klein-4b.safetensors.

axis	value
book	pathemata
symmetry	radial 8
organization	chained
silhouette	ribbon
scale	immense
proportion	graded latent
growth	gnomonic
articulation	seamless latent
openness	lattice
skeleton	endoskeleton latent
locomotion	walking latent
pattern	plain latent
coloration	warning latent
substance	calcite
surface	perforated
palette	bismuth
luminosity	points
transparency	clouded latent
gesture	pulses
unity	composite latent
modality	contingent
causation	formal latent
determinacy	unmarked latent
fusion	sprouting
anomaly	none
graft	nets
technique	silverpoint
viewpoint	cutaway
value	chiaroscuro
balance	cantilevered latent
density	unmarked latent
rhythm	regular latent
saturation	unmarked latent
appendages	spines
anchor (body)	sea sparkle, plankton flashing blue wherever the water is disturbed
anchor (detail)	a brain coral, a dome covered in meandering ridges

Sources

Robert Marsham, Indications of Spring (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1789)
W. W. Garner and H. A. Allard, Effect of the Relative Length of Day and Night and Other Factors of the Environment on Growth and Reproduction in Plants (Journal of Agricultural Research, 1920)
Carol C. Baskin and Jerry M. Baskin, Seeds: Ecology, Biogeography, and Evolution of Dormancy and Germination (1998)
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (1949)
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962)

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