For more amusement from Toronto, see today's Toronto Sun .
Related material — Last Sunday's post in this journal
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Words and Images
From a post on "Matrix Bingo" —
From a Log24 search for "Women's Night" —
The Mackey material, from St. Patrick's Day 2006, suggests a look
at the angels of Noah Jacobs' 1958 classic Naming Day in Eden —
Jacobs on angels —
"Their sensuous functions have been extinguished so that they
have no idea of sensible images, metaphor, tones or gestures.
They have no need in their noumenal sphere of these seductive
and puzzling artifices. Their penchant for unashamed abstraction
is the deepest strain in their make-up."
Compare and contrast —
Quilts (for instance) as "seductive and puzzling artifices"
that embody symmetry.
Quilt geometry as the exploitation of symmetry.
Puzzle Art
From the post Belgian Puzzle Art —
Related reading . . .
— "The Devil, unlike the angels, was at home in the world of phenomena.
He knew how to combine pure concepts with empirical intuitions …
which is the basic principle of linguistic creation."
(Noah Jonathan Jacobs, Naming-Day in Eden, Macmillan, 1958 …
In Macmillan 1969 revised edition, page 21.)
The figure of 25 parts discussed in
"On Linguistic Creation"–
— "Such is the square dance of Numbers."
(Jacques Derrida, Dissemination, 1972)
— "It all adds up."
(Saul Bellow, book title, 1994)