Monkey Grammar

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Monkey Grammar

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: Fitch, Hanuman, Harvard Miller — m759 @ 2:29 am

For a modern Adam and Eve—

W. Tecumseh Fitch and Gesche Westphal Fitch,
editors of a new four-volume collection titled
Language Evolution (Feb. 2, 2012, $1,360)—

Related material—

"At the point of convergence
the play of similarities and differences
cancels itself out in order that
identity alone may shine forth.
The illusion of motionlessness,
the play of mirrors of the one:
identity is completely empty;
it is a crystallization and
in its transparent core
the movement of analogy
begins all over once again."

— The Monkey Grammarian

by Octavio Paz, translated by
Helen Lane (Kindle edition of
2011-11-07, Kindle locations
1207-1210).

The "play of mirrors" link above is my own.

Click on W. Tecumseh Fitch for links to some
examples of mirror-play in graphic design—
from, say, my own work in a version of 1977, not from
the Fitches' related work published online last June—

See also Log24 posts from the publication date
of the Fitches' Language Evolution—

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Monkey Grammar

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