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[brunians at brunians.org]

OK then.

There are extensive bits about large face and small face (also large nose
and small nose) in Qabalah (more properly it begins in Merkabah literature
and the qabalah inherits it, but that's bisecting rabbits). And analagous
bits in Indian systems, but you just get to expect that. These folks are
on more about the face (and often other body parts) of God and similar
things, not recognizing human faces. Meaningful is a term whose use
varies.



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> Hahaha, no, the Russian psychologist Luria about his mnemonist subject S.
> The day a kabbalist can say something meaningful about facial recognition
> will be an interesting day indeed.
>
> On 7/20/07, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>>
>> Is this Isaac Luria the Spanish Qabalist you are talking about?
>>
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Paul B wrote:
>> >
>> >> Well, Severian's attitude to details is famously bad  - he tends to
>> >> include,
>> >> interpret and omit things liberally.  It's furthermore not too
>> >> surprising
>> >> that he mis-identified the old man some years later as he grew more
>> >> shrunken
>> >> and old since Severian's memory is provably faulty at times.
>> >> Interestingly,
>> >> he even mis-identifies himself on the funerary bronze in Shadow, and
>> in
>> >> his
>> >> similarity to Ouen, which in Citadel was described as uncanny.
>> >
>> > I think that's a detail from Luria's description of his mnemonist, who
>> > IIRC
>> > had difficulty associating a profile view and frontal view of the same
>> > person.
>> >
>> > David Duffy.
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