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Jan 12, 2011 - 12:07am PT
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Least would seem to me to be nothing.
Nothingness would seem to have no qualities whatsoever, elegance included.
But as you got closer and closer to nothing there would be less to talk about and fewer arguments against elegance, and fewer people to buzz, buzz, I wonder why they duzz? So if you got lucky, elegance could be the last thing left on the road to nothing, which would make it anything but least, since it would be the only thing, but it would be elegant.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jan 12, 2011 - 12:07am PT
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Turdoly
Social climber
Boulder, CO
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Jan 12, 2011 - 12:14am PT
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There's nothing like the pattern of nothing.
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 12, 2011 - 12:15am PT
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But even "Nothing" has an individual personality as shown in Ed's post above.
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Jay Wood
Trad climber
Fairfax, CA
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Jan 12, 2011 - 01:36am PT
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To win the race, you must first get half way to the finish. This takes time.
Then you must advance half the remaining distance. This takes more time.
To cover half the distance now remaining takes time as well.
And so you will never arrive at the goal.
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marv
Mountain climber
Bay Area
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Jan 12, 2011 - 02:19am PT
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what Saint-Ex said (above).
and what Erdos said too.
a little bit of Steve House for good measure: "The simpler we make things, the richer the experience becomes."
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 12, 2011 - 02:25am PT
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"At least I had on clean underwear."
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Jan 12, 2011 - 11:16am PT
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From the new movie, The King's Speech...
NOTE: Lionel Louge is Geoffrey Rush and King George VI is Colin Firth. If you have their voices in your head the lines ring sweet.
Lionel Logue: [as George is lighting up a cigarette] Don't do that in here.
King George VI: Why not?
Lionel Logue: Sucking smoke into your lungs will kill you.
King George VI: My physicians tell me it helps to relax the throat.
Lionel Logue: They're idiots.
King George VI: They've been knighted.
Lionel Logue: Makes it official then.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jan 12, 2011 - 11:43am PT
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once i am finished with everything, nothing sums me up.
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Jan 12, 2011 - 11:53am PT
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Jan 12, 2011 - 11:56am PT
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none of us
are secure
until the
least of
us are.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Jan 12, 2011 - 11:56am PT
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one who says least knows most...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jan 13, 2011 - 08:06pm PT
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"Maier's goal as a designer is to strip away all unenecessary parts until a dress or a shirt or a bag or a watch has been reduced to its functional essence - until it achieves what he calls 'a certain nothingness'".
 John Colapinto, Profiles, JUST HAVE LESS, Bottega Veneta's Tomas Maier, The NEW YORKER, Jan. 3, 2011
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jan 13, 2011 - 08:22pm PT
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Wittgenstein- "Of that of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence."
Still in Patagonia.
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scott baxter
Gym climber
sedona, arizona
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Jan 19, 2011 - 01:13am PT
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Legacy II
Grandfather never went to school
spoke only a few words of English,
a quiet man; when he talked
talked about simple things
planting corn or about the weather
sometimes about herding sheep as a child.
One day pointed to the four directions
taught me their names
El Norte
Poniente Oriente
El Sur
He spoke their names as if they were
one of only a handful of things
a man needed to know
Now I look back
only two generations removed
realize I am nothing but a poor fool
who went to college
trying to find my way back
to the center of the world
where Grandfather stood
that day
Leroy V. Quintana
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scuffy b
climber
Three feet higher
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Jan 19, 2011 - 01:23pm PT
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Function is Beauty
Dr. Ferdinand Porsche
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jstan
climber
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Jan 19, 2011 - 02:03pm PT
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Lois?
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PhotogEC
climber
In front of my computer
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Jan 19, 2011 - 02:56pm PT
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacher
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Jan 19, 2011 - 03:23pm PT
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Referring to the milkshakes that used to be served at the OLD drugstore in Independence, CA during the late 50's-early 60's:
"A little is good; more is better; and TOO MUCH IS JUST RIGHT!!!
-Lincoln Axe, mountaineer
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