See as well a search in this journal for Feng Shui.
Sunday, July 4, 2021
Saturday, July 3, 2021
Here, There, and Chicago
The above phrase "the intersection of storytelling and visual arts"
suggests a review . . .
Storytelling —
Visual arts —
"This pattern is a square divided into nine equal parts.
It has been called the 'Holy Field' division and
was used throughout Chinese history for many
different purposes, most of which were connected
with things religious, political, or philosophical."
– The Magic Square: Cities in Ancient China,
by Alfred Schinz, Edition Axel Menges, 1996, p. 71
A Midrash for Michener —
For a connection of the above "Holy Field"
with pure mathematics, see Coxeter's Aleph.
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Friday, July 2, 2021
Number, Time, and The New Mutants
From Number and Time ,
by Marie-Louise von Franz,
Northwestern U. Press paperback,
December 31, 1974 —
Star Wars Chess:
Originally chess seems to have represented an earthly mirror-image of "the stars' battles in Heaven,"22 an outline of those battles from which man's destiny proceeded. 22. See Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China (Cambridge, 1959), III, 540ff., 303ff.; see also IV, pt. 1, 230, 265, 327 ff.
From the recent film The New Mutants —
Anya Taylor-Joy plays in a pool:
"Roll credits."
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The Motive for Metaphor
The above title is from Wallace Stevens.
Related meditations — This journal on March 9, 2021, and . . .
See as well recent posts in this journal
now tagged The Chinese Room Experiment.
For the source of the above Wallace Stevens phrase, see (for instance) . . .
The above weblog post on Stevens is dated November 17, 2010.
Posts in this weblog on that same date and its eve are now tagged . . .
Related Scholarly Remarks:
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