The study of linkages is one of the broadest of all studies. I'm particularly concerned with the areas above, but the scope of the site is much wider, and so it should interest 'intelligent general readers' as well as specialists.
I discuss linkages in many different fields and create completely new ones: a prominent theme is innovation. There are a large number of innovations here, many of them practical, in Web design and gardening. Others concern poetry: for example in concrete poetry, (the page includes an 'exploding poem'), study of metaphor and metre, and in a completely new form, which uses linkage by meaning to complement linkage by sound. The left side of the main sitemap gives access to all the pages concerned with poetry. The poems of mine at Poems: a Large Page Design cover a wide range, from humour and sarcasm to war.
The links of a website are examples of linkages but most linkages can't be created with the same ease. Some are very problematic, for example, the linkage between mind and body, or disputed: astrologers find a linkage between human personality and celestial objects whilst sceptics find no convincing evidence. Scientific advances involve new linkages. Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation established a linkage between all the bodies in the Universe. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution established new linkages between organisms.
Linkage
and contrast provide a powerful way of viewing human personality in its
frequent mixture of strength and weakness and the often grotesque contradictions
to be found in societies and give new perspectives in ethics and politics.
An illustrated screenplay
and two plays illustrate some of the contrasts and contradictions of human
nature.
The General Glossary explains many of the ideas
used. About this site gives background information.
Most
of the material is non-technical. The page which introduces {theme}
theory is an exception, in part: I develop here a symbolic notation.
The
page Interpretations makes use
of this notation.
Paul Hurt
The innovations in Web design give new ways of navigating pages, which can be used in the long pages common in Web sites but also in 'Large Page Design.' See Page travel and for a much more detailed account, Web design.
The section Themes and Controversies, which has its own section-map, includes discussion of bullfighting, factory farming and other matters to do with animal welfare, the death penalty, radical feminism and smoking: a defence. This section also contains a collection of my aphorisms and a discussion of aphoristic form.
Other sections with their own section-maps are gardening, education and reviews and criticism, which contains what I believe is the most comprehensive presentation of 'the case against' Seamus' Heaney's poetry available anywhere, either in print or on the Web, together with appreciation, and includes discussion of the poetry of Jared Carter.
