High Seas
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High Sees
I was playing with words when I first used the expression “This has been a HyC Adventure” as a postscript to a little piece I emailed to a friend. HyC brings to mind High Seas and, more to the point, High Sees, an allusion to adventures in the science and the poetics of perception. High C is also a note on the musical scale to which operatic singers aspire to soar and sustain. Sí is the Spanish word for “yes,” making High Sí a robust affirmation of life, while Hi Si provides a fore-glimpse, up there, way up there, of the High Sierras. Do you see? Hum the sound Hy and you will end with an I. Ah, I see. Eye see.
The above paragraph is an example of what I call ludibundity: feeling full of play and light with levity. The lud– in this word derives from ludere, a Latin word meaning “to play.” When we are in such a ludic state, we can live up to, and liven up to, what we are as Homo ludens—creatures who play, creatures who can be a-mused.
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