(A sequel to yesterday's afternoon post, "Outside the Box")
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Friday, May 21, 2021
Thinking Outside . . .
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Saturday, September 14, 2019
Landscape Art
From "Six Significant Landscapes," by Wallace Stevens (1916) —
VI
Rationalists, wearing square hats,
Think, in square rooms,
Looking at the floor,
Looking at the ceiling.
They confine themselves
To right-angled triangles.
If they tried rhomboids,
Cones, waving lines, ellipses —
As, for example, the ellipse of the half-moon —
Rationalists would wear sombreros.
But see "cones, waving lines, ellipses" in Kummer's Quartic Surface
(by R. W. H. T. Hudson, Cambridge University Press, 1905) and their
intimate connection with the geometry of the 4×4 square.
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The All-Night Record Player
See "Politics of Experience" and "Blue Guitar."
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