"You got your demons and you got desires
Well, I got a few of my own" — Song lyric
Click the above box for a related New Yorker article.
See also, in this journal, Baudelaire and Psychonauts.
Friday, April 28, 2023
Baudelaire and the Psychonauts
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023
The Artist: Yuki Murayama
The June 14 book review from the previous post —
See the artist's page giving variations on the above image.
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Emma Watson, Symmetry Surfer
See also . . . .
-
A June 14 review of
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
by Mike Jay. Yale University Press, 376 pages. April 18, 2023 - Psychonauts in this journal
- Symmetry Surfing in this journal
- Spider Tale posts in this journal . . .
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Thursday, July 27, 2017
Voices from a Cartoon Graveyard
The previous post illustrated
"Decorations for a Cartoon Graveyard."
A search for Psychonauts in
this journal yields …
In other news …
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Friday, July 14, 2017
March 26, 2006 (continued)
The above image, posted here on March 26, 2006, was
suggested by this morning's post "Black Art" and by another
item from that date in 2006 —
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Springer
In memory of the late mathematician John Nash
and of the late actor Alan Young ...
A Talking Horse —
What the horse says: "First online: 28 August 2013."
See also Overarching, Psychonauts, and Spider Tale in this journal.
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Language Game
The above images are from a prequel (March 29, 2013)
to 'Nauts (March 26, 2006.)
See also Spider Mother, Gamer Post, and Spider Tale.
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Sunday, March 26, 2006
Sunday March 26, 2006
'Nauts
(continued from
Life of the Party, March 24)
Exhibit A —
From (presumably) a Princeton student
(see Activity, March 24):
Exhibit B —
From today's Sunday comics:
Exhibit C —
From a Smith student with the
same name as the Princeton student
(i.e., Dagwood's "Twisterooni" twin):
Related illustrations
("Visual Stimuli") from
the Smith student's game —
Literary Exercise:
Continuing the Smith student's
Psychonauts theme,
compare and contrast
two novels dealing with
similar topics:
A Wrinkle in Time,
by the Christian author
Madeleine L'Engle,
and
Psychoshop,
by the secular authors
Alfred Bester and
Roger Zelazny.
Presumably the Princeton student
would prefer the Christian fantasy,
the Smith student the secular.
Those who prefer reality to fantasy —
not as numerous as one might think —
may examine what both 4×4 arrays
illustrated above have in common:
their structure.
Both Princeton and Smith might benefit
from an application of Plato's dictum:
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