From 0bff185d02bd0026401b8b8a7c022288a012187f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akihito Koriyama Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:08:18 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add I Ching epigraph and bold key verbs to landing page MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Root the landing tagline in the oldest recorded articulation of what Be Framework is actually about: 乾道變化、各正性命 — from the Tuan commentary on Qián (乾), the first hexagram of the I Ching (circa 4th Century BC). Why this line, and why the landing page 乾道變化 — As the Way transforms 各正性命 — each thing settles into its nature and destiny The two halves of the line mirror the two halves of Be Framework. * 變化 (transformation) is metamorphosis. Be Framework's core loop — Input → Being → Final — is not a call stack, not a chain of responsibilities, not a pipeline of handlers. It is a sequence of transformations where a value becomes its next form. The same word the I Ching uses for cosmological change is the word we use for what a #[Be] attribute declares. * 各正性命 (each settles into its nature and destiny) is the "Being-Oriented" half. 性 (nature) is what a thing *is* — intrinsic, non-behavioral. 命 (destiny / mandate) is what it was called to become. In a framework where final objects are immutable and every step is declared by what a value *will be*, not what a method *does*, 正性命 is not metaphor — it is the type signature. Together the two halves name the same motion from opposite sides: transformation happening everywhere, and each individual arriving at what it was always going to be. That is the sentence a Being-Oriented framework has been waiting to quote. Translation choices "settles into" rather than "is set right" or "fulfills". The original 正 carries both the active sense (to rectify, to align) and the intransitive sense (to come into alignment). English has no single verb for "reach the position that was already yours," but "settles into" is closest — and it matches the experience of reading a Be Framework pipeline, where nothing is forced into place; each stage just arrives at what it had to be. "nature and destiny" preserves both 性 and 命. Dropping either collapses the pair that makes Be Framework legible: without 性 there is no Being, without 命 there is no Becoming. Visual choices * The Chinese is rendered invisibly via sr-only rather than displayed. The source matters — it should be searchable, indexed, and available to screen readers — but the landing page is for newcomers, not scholars of classical Chinese. The epigraph works the way a cornerstone works: load-bearing, rarely looked at. * transforms / nature / destiny are bolded. These are the three words the tagline shares with the I Ching line, and they are the three words a reader of the manual will encounter again on every chapter. The bolding is not decoration; it is an index into the rest of the documentation. * white-space: nowrap keeps the sentence unbroken. 乾道變化、 各正性命 is a single breath in the original; the English should be too. * The call to action shrinks from "Learn more »" to "be »". "Learn" is something you do to a topic from the outside. "be" is what the framework is named after, and the verb the next page will ask you to think in. --- index.html | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index fcfdac5..8f5a91b 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -6,13 +6,16 @@
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