Observations on Commensuration (5)

The analytic use of standards and measures, first into midnights, onwards to mid-days, later into first-order diminution and then into second degrees of diminution, renders the wide world canonical ("Long live the sound of the cannon!"), whereby the one-by-one world leads the procession, looking like some Jesuit or some odd denomination of anti-nominalists - Benedict's orders come to mind, speechless, speechless, speechless - surely one of them realizes that the angelus belongs to the people, not to the peal of the bell, the reel on the bell, the brazen-sky bell that rings because the plowshares drop and not the other way around.