could anyone help me understand this passage? tks a lot!
passage: and the same image, that of veins in marble, in applied to the two under different conditions. sometimes the veins are the pleats of matter that surround living beings held in the mass, such that the marble tile resembles a rippling lake that teems with fish. sometimes the veins are innate ideas in the soul, like twisted figures or powerful statues caught in the block of marble. matter is mabled, of two different styles.

source: the fold-leibniz and the baroque
written by gilles deleuze
chapter 1 the pleats of matter
page 4(the second passage)

i've got difficulty in understanding the "innate ideas in the soul "of the marble. Could u help me? i suppose... u need to know a little bit about architecure/ parametric design...

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could anyone help me understand this passage? tks a lot!
passage: and the same image, that of veins in marble, in applied to the two under different conditions. sometimes the veins are the pleats of matter that surround living beings held in the mass, such that the marble tile resembles a rippling lake that teems with fish. sometimes the veins are innate ideas in the soul, like twisted figures or powerful statues caught in the block of marble. matter is mabled, of two different styles.

source: the fold-leibniz and the baroque 
written by gilles deleuze
chapter 1   the pleats of matter
page 4(the second passage)


i've got difficulty in understanding the "innate ideas in the soul "of the marble. Could u help me? i suppose... u need to know a little bit about architecure/ parametric design...

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Hi, here it means that  the marble is sculptured into something meaningful by an artist. The veins in the marble are lifelike,  similar to the veins of a living person.

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Though it is written in English, I doubt that it is much of a valid idea, so I wouldn't spend too much time trying to figure it out. It sounds like the author was confused about something but didn't want to admit it to himself.

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