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The Bolt
An object, designated as a certain type of fastener, consisting of a metal cylinder of varying types of _ formed as a shaft is the basis for a bolt.
I’m creating a description, working my mind’s eye to both see and understand this object while at the same time find words with which to describe it. I have decided, as this is a writing exercise, to write quickly, using underscores such as _ when I have lost a word or spend too much time searching for it. The intention being to quickly write out some form of description that is passable as communication about the object I am intending to describe.
I set out, firstly, to describe the object such that it was a technical description and intended to call it a screw, when indeed after even a moment came to understand that what I had desired to describe was actually, a bolt. This thought experiment is a way to get my mind wrapped around something a bit more concrete and to live in a descriptive space that has more bounds in reality than merely just saying the object or identifying it as a thought or concept, but rather an actual object in thought space.
The coffee timer just went off. So now I not only have a pot of coffee, but I have started something I must finish.
Back to our as yet undescribed cylindrical shaft. It is optional to have a thread, but if it does have a thread, the thread is a very conforming…
