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"Consider the six-dimensional vector space ( 𝔽₂ )⁶
over the two-element field 𝔽₂ ."

— Page 23 of "The Universal Kummer Threefold,"
arXiv:1208.1229v3, 12 June 2013, by Qingchun Ren,
Steven V. Sam, Gus Schrader, and Bernd Sturmfels.

An illustration of that space from 1981 —

The above recollection of the Kummer Threefold  remark was suggested by
recent posts now tagged Smallfield . . .

If we read the above "art" as  a scythe blade to which the "signature" —
Snaith ("the crooked handle or shaft of a scythe") — is attached,
an image of the late art critic Robert Hughes comes to mind:

That image of Hughes appeared here in a post of June 17, 2015 —
"Slow Art, Continued" — that also referenced the Kummer Threefold
paper above.

From yesterday morning's post "What's in a Name?" —

In the above Facebook post, a dead person speaks —

"You and I are separated by a thin piece of silk
which neither the strongest man could tear,
nor the sharpest tool could pierce.
Nothing can cross this membrane that divides us
except art, music, poetry and love."

Try a subtle knife, Sean.

Related material —

"Third Man – an elderly American railway bum,
a schizophrenic, speaks with a Southern drawl"

"Art to which I fix my celebrated signature."

— "Third Man" in Victor Snaith's play "Changing Stations"

"Snaithing  may thus be Smallfield . . . ."