(Continued from Sept. 22, 2011)
See Taormina in this journal, and the following photo of "Anne Newton"—
Click photo for context.
Related material:
"Super Overarching" in this journal,
a group of order 322,560, and…
See also the MAA Spectrum program —
— and an excerpt from the above book:
The art above is by the Copenhagen studio
Hvass & Hannibal. For a photo of the artists,
see a webpage on Beijing Design Week 2011.
Hvass and Hannibal were apparently in Beijing
for the "open workshop," Sept. 17-23, 2011.
Gestalt-related material from this journal that week —
* Title suggested by that of a book by Quine.
(Continued. For the title, see Lucero in this journal.)
See Newton in several works of literary art:
The date, Nov. 23, 2010, of the Westminster Abbey remarks
in the second Newton link above suggests a quite different church
from that date.
From the weblog of Dr. David Justice today :
C.S. Lewis somewhere (in time, in retirement, I might recover
the passage) surveys the spectrum of plot-outlines, and notes
that that of Orpheus retains its power to spellbind, even in a
bare-bones form, whereas that of almost all worthy modern novels,
become as dust upon such summary.
We venture now upon that territory where words fail ….
Related material :
C. S. Lewis on Orpheus (click to enlarge) —
Lewis, according to Justice, "surveys the spectrum of plot-outlines."
A related image (see, too, today's previous post) —
C. S. Lewis on myth —
"The stories I am thinking of always have a very simple narrative shape—
a satisfactory and inevitable shape, like a good vase or a tulip."
Conceptual Art
For concepts of prism, spectrum, and tulip combined, see Sicilian Reflections.
"For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross."
— Gravity's Rainbow
For Saint Irving
* For one interpretation of this phrase, see
Sicilian Reflections (from this year's Feast
of St. Irving Berlin on his dies natalis ).
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