Integrated worlds, separate, or co-existing?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 155076

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sandra Collins" <sandra87b at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" 
> <tonks_op@> wrote:

Tonks:
> > I am speaking in a metaphysical way. I see the WW as a 
> deeper reality, 
> > a truth that Muggles do not want to know, see, or bother about.  
> I see 
> > the WW as the world of the mystic.  I see the WW as the matrix 
> that 
> > upholds the MW. People like Uncle Vernor fear it, want to lock it 
> > under the stairs, try to make it go away.
> >
> 
> 
> Sandra:
> 
> Well whatever it is, I've learned two new words from this 
> discussion. Simalucrum, and koan. I have no idea what either 
> mean but I'm determined to drop them into a conversation 
> sometime soon. Maybe next time I'm going round the shops. 
> Look out Woolies.
> As for the wizworld and muggle world, I'll settle for being 
> bewildered and hope JKR paints over a few grey areas and ties 
> up quite a few loose ends, dots the i's and crosses all t's in the 
> next book. Maybe.

Geoff:
I first came across the word "simulacrum" when reading Asimov's 
'Foundation' books years ago.

It means 'an image or representation of a person or thing". Today, 
we might use the word 'hologram' or something similar.

A "koan" is 'a paradoxical anecdote or riddle used in Zen Buddhism 
to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning and provoke 
enlightenment'.

Hmm. Yes. I think I'll take half a dozen of those please...