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Rain

Pluviaria reddens·the Returning Fall

From Latin pluvia, rain, and reddens, giving back, the rain that returns to the ground what rose from it.

Level: Conceptorganism
Book: Meteorathe meteorological atlas
Phylum: Verticalityimage schema
Class: Outputits precipitation
Niche: Symbionta partner
Mode: Religionhow it keeps existing
Stage: Matureindividuated
Status: Living
Habitat: Forest

Its kinds · Roget, 1852: Inorganic Matter · Wilkins, 1668: Element · WordNet, 1990: Phenomenon · Llull, 1308: I · Elementative

Returning Fall, the whole specimen — Plate XXIX. Pluviaria reddens, the whole specimen.

Rain is water that rose as vapour and falls back to the ground, so the land lives by a return it partly feeds itself.

What rises from the earth comes back to it as rain, and the ground lives on that return.

behavior It gathers out of sight, falls in sudden lines, and leaves pools that hold the sky for an hour after it has passed.

provocation

What have you given off that is now falling back on you?

Each draw is the being derived afresh by the current laws at another seed (laws §11); the chosen one leads (where they sit in the morphospace).

I Dissection

Each organ answers one question about the idea. The framed one, its output, is the dominant organ: the being's class, the one the idea could not lose and stay itself.

Kernel of Rain — Fig. 1. Kernel
Water cycle
Which premise, if it were false, would kill this idea?
Rain is water that rose as vapour and falls back as drops once they grow too heavy for the air to hold.^{1, 3}
drawn as: condensation nucleus · view: detached

Boundary of Rain — Fig. 2. Boundary
Drought
What sets it apart from what it is not, and how does it keep that distinction?
Its edge is drought, the dry season and the desert, where moist air seldom arrives and people have long tried to call it back.⁵
drawn as: front · view: magnified

Intake of Rain — Fig. 3. Intake
Flying rivers
What must it feed on to work? What has to be present, noticed or supplied?
It feeds on vapour lifted from seas, lakes and leaves, and over the Amazon about half the rain comes from water the forest itself gave off.²
drawn as: inflow · view: cast

Mechanism of Rain — Fig. 4. Mechanism
Condensation nuclei
How does it turn what it takes in into what it gives out?
Rising air cools, vapour condenses on specks of dust and salt into droplets, and droplets merge until they are heavy enough to fall.³
drawn as: convection cell · view: cross section

Output of Rain — Fig. 5. Output
Vernal pool
❦ dominant organ
What does it make possible, visible or knowable?
It soaks the soil, fills springs and rivers, and leaves still pools on the ground that mirror the sky.¹
drawn as: precipitation · view: series

Dispersal of Rain — Fig. 6. Dispersal
Runoff
What part of it travels into other minds, ideas and fields, and by what vector?
It runs off in streams and rivers back to the sea, and it travels in belief as the answer of the sky, called down by rain dances and prayers.^{1, 5}
drawn as: plume · view: in situ

Decay of Rain — Fig. 7. Decay
Acid deposition
What can it not digest, where does it fail, and what does it leave behind for others?
Rain falling through smoke turns acid, pitting stone and leaching soils until forests and lakes lose their life.⁴
drawn as: dissipation · view: at work

II Meaning associations

No relations recorded yet.

descent membership food web resemblance or friction

Lineage

A founder, dissected by hand.

Kin

same kind in Roget Erosion, Fire, Salt, Storm, Wind

same kind in Wilkins Fire, Storm, Wind

same kind in WordNet Emergence, Placebo, Resonance, Resonance (Automata), Storm, Wind

same kind in Llull Amber, Emergence, Entanglement, Entropy, Erosion, Fire, Resonance, Resonance (Automata), Salt, Storm, Wind, Self-Ending Order

same phylum Erosion, Faith, Innocence, Vertigo

same dominant organ Apophenia, Chiaroscuro, Echolalia, Emergence, Erosion, Mimesis, Nostalgia, Placebo, Babelhum, Afterlistening, The Festival Calendar

Genome

water
return also in Commemorative Revision, Equinox, The Festival Calendar, Nostalgia
nourishment
reflection
omen also in Prophecy

III In the world

Echoes

the monsoon
a puddle holding the sky
a rain dance
the flying rivers over the Amazon

IV Record

How it was drawn

its draw 1, a point in the morphospace (laws §8), drawn by flux-2-klein-4b.safetensors.

axis	value
book	meteora
symmetry	dendritic
organization	segmented
silhouette	bell
scale	hand
proportion	elongated latent
growth	swelling
articulation	seamless latent
openness	sheet latent
skeleton	woody latent
locomotion	drifting latent
pattern	spots latent
coloration	nuptial latent
substance	ice
surface	scaled
palette	malachite
luminosity	none
transparency	translucent
gesture	sinks
unity	fragment latent
modality	possible latent
causation	final
determinacy	unmarked latent
fusion	sprouting
anomaly	petrified
graft	strings
technique	hatching
viewpoint	below
value	chiaroscuro latent
balance	unmarked latent
density	unmarked latent
rhythm	regular
saturation	muted latent
appendages	sails
anchor (body)	a coral fungus, a dense tuft of branching upright prongs
anchor (detail)	a maple samara, a winged seed that spins as it falls

Sources

Pierre Perrault, De l'origine des fontaines (1674)
Eneas Salati and others, Recycling of Water in the Amazon Basin: An Isotopic Study (Water Resources Research, 1979)
B. J. Mason, The Physics of Clouds (1957)
Robert Angus Smith, Air and Rain: The Beginnings of a Chemical Climatology (1872)
James George Frazer, The Golden Bough (1890), on the magical control of rain

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