8. The subcreation of Middle-earth is done upon a course of realization, by artifact, word, and story. These are reducable into four types: the Completed Act, the Potential Act, the Initialized Act and the Concetual Act, each identified by a particular.
--Taum Santoski, circa 1984
The subcreation of Middle-earth is done upon a course of realization, by artifact, word, and story. These are reducable into four types: the Completed Act, the Potential Act, the Initialized Act and the Concetual Act, each identified by a particular.
ReplyDeleteHmm. Intriguing, but I'm not sure I'm following. Did Taum define these different Acts, or just label them.
I can follow a distinction between a Completed Act and a Potential Act. But how is a Potential Act distinguished from a Conceptual Act?
As a creator myself, and particularly as one building my own secondary world, I don't grasp a subjective difference between "potential" and "conceptual".
And "Intialized" sits out there dangling between "Conceptual" and "Completed".
Oh, so tantalizing a tid-bit!