| An Ordinary Evening in New Haven | |
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| line 540 (xxx.18): | In which hundreds of eyes, in one mind, see at once. |
The cover art of a 1976 monograph, "Diamond Theory," was described in this morning's post.
As Madeleine L'Engle noted in 1976, the cover art resembles the character Proginoskes in her novel A Wind in the Door.
A search today for Proginoskes yields a description by Brendan Kidwell…
A link at Kidwell's site leads to a weblog by Jeff Atwood, a founder of Stack Overflow, a programmers' question-and-answer site.
(Stack Overflow is said to have inspired the similar site for mathematicians, Math Overflow.)
Yesterday Atwood discussed technical writing.
This suggests a look at Robert M. Pirsig on that subject in his 1974 philosophical novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
(See also a document on Pirsig's technical-writing background.)
Pirsig describes his novel as "a sort of Chautauqua."
This, together with the Stevens and Proginoskes quotes above, leads back to the Log24 Feb. 1 post The Search.
An image from that post (click to enlarge)—
Here the apparently fragmented nature of the set of
images imagined as rising above the podium of the
Hall of Philosophy at Chautauqua rather naturally
echoes Stevens's "hundreds of eyes" remark.