See Madeleine + Folded.
An illustration (click to enlarge) —
Related material: Posts from the above upload date, 10/1/10.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Toronto vs. Rome
or: Catullus vs. Ovid
(Today's previous post, "Coxeter vs. Fano,"
might also have been titled "Toronto vs. Rome.")
ut te postremo donarem munere mortis
Explicatio
Image by Christopher Thomas at Wikipedia —
Unfolding of a hypercube and of a cube —
The metaphor for metamorphosis no keys unlock.
— Steven H. Cullinane, "Endgame"
The current New Yorker has a translation of
the above line of Catullus by poet Anne Carson.
According to poets.org, Carson "attended St. Michael's College
at the University of Toronto and, despite leaving twice,
received her B.A. in 1974, her M.A. in 1975 and her Ph.D. in 1981."
Carson's translation is given in a review of her new book Nox.
The title, "The Unfolding," of the current review echoes an earlier
New Yorker piece on another poet, Madeleine L'Engle—
Cynthia Zarin in The New Yorker, issue dated April 12, 2004–
“Time, for L’Engle, is accordion-pleated. She elaborated,
‘When you bring a sheet off the line, you can’t handle it
until it’s folded, and in a sense, I think, the universe can’t
exist until it’s folded– or it’s a story without a book.’”
(See also the "harrow up" + Hamlet link in yesterday's 6:29 AM post.)
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
Saturday May 13, 2006
ART WARS continued…
A Fold in Time
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Above: Braque and tesseract
“The senses deform, the mind forms. Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.”
— Georges Braque, Reflections on Painting, 1917
Those who wish to follow Braque’s advice may try the following exercise from a book first published in 1937:
Hint: See the above picture of
Braque and the construction of
a tesseract.
Related material:
Storyline and Time Fold
(both of Oct. 10, 2003),
and the following–
(both of Oct. 10, 2003),
and the following–
“Time, for L’Engle, is accordion-pleated. She elaborated, ‘When you bring a sheet off the line, you can’t handle it until it’s folded, and in a sense, I think, the universe can’t exist until it’s folded– or it’s a story without a book.'”
— Cynthia Zarin on Madeleine L’Engle,
“The Storyteller,” in The New Yorker,
issue dated April 12, 2004
Friday, October 10, 2003
Friday October 10, 2003
Storyline
To hear a story, or to read it straight through from start to finish, is to travel along a one-dimensional line. A well-structured story has, however, more than one dimension.
Juxtaposing scenes shows that details that seem to be far apart in the telling (or the living) of a story may in fact be closely related.
Here is an example from the film “Contact,” in which a young girl’s drawing and a vision of paradise are no longer separated by the time it takes to tell (or live) the story:
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(See my entry of Michaelmas 2002.)
For details of how time is “folded”
by artists and poets, see the following:
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