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Did You Hear the One I Just Made Up? –
September 2, 2008 |
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Sleep experts have finally determined the cause of shepherd narcolepsy: counting sheep. From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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Images Moving Through Time –
August 7, 2008 |
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(Part one of a research/collage project inspired by Chris Piuma and dedicated to Geof Huth. Thanks to Gordon Meyer for invaluable support.) Top clipping from John E. Woods' translation of Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (Vintage International Edition, 1999). Middle clipping from H.T. Lowe-Porter's translation of Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (Knopf, 1948). Bottom clipping from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faustus (Boosey & Sons, 1821) --- Carson Park Ranger writes: Asterisks seem to exist only on hand-held devices anymore where, sadly, they are referred to as star.
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Images Moving Through Time –
June 19, 2008 |
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The following are examples of general properties: • being square • being self-identical • being identical with something • being next to someone • being next to a square • being a square which is larger than any other square — Gary S. Rosenkrantz, Haecceity: An Ontological Essay, 1993
Anna Halprin , Circle the Earth, Dancing with Life on the Line, 1989 photo courtesy of Musee d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, image by Paul Fusco Via Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
November 26, 2007 |
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I find this cartoon from Punch (Aug. 8, 1917) quite intruguing. The caption reads: Betty (after flash of lightning): "COUNT QUICKLY, JENNY! MAKE IT AS FAR AWAY AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN."
As I see it, the children have learned a formula about determining the distance of a storm, and because the formula involves chanting numbers, it has taken on mystical qualities. Jenny acts as the shaman, besought by Betty to repel the storm with her incantation. Betty will presumably count backward, to reverse and thereby neutralize the machinations of the storm. The cartoon was no doubt intended as an easy laugh, but I see quite a depth of implications! |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
September 14, 2007 |
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A cartoon on the value of fairy tales, from the Jan. 8, 1919 issue of Punch. The caption reads: Poor Old Woman (to youth, who has given her a gratuity and relieved her of her load of wood):
"I PRESUME, MY KIND YOUNG FRIEND, THAT YOU ARE THE YOUNGEST OF THE THREE BROTHERS WHO ARE GOING OUT TO SEEK THEIR FORTUNES?"
Clever Youth: "NO, I'M THE ELDEST. BUT I'VE BEEN READING THE STORIES." |
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Images Moving Through Time –
April 6, 2007 |
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook: This exquisite line from Tim Powers' novel The Anubis Gate inspired my collage. |
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Images Moving Through Time –
April 3, 2007 |
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Each one of the pictures below is entitled "Unknown Fisherman." Is an Unknown Fisherman some sort of archetypal figure? He is symbolic by his very nature, for we know nothing about him. What does his appearance suggest? Is he a manifestation of the Fisher King of Arthurian legend? And/or a Christ figure? Does he hold the Salmon of Wisdom from Irish mythology? Here's an anecdote by a person who carried an Atlantic salmon fly from one corner of Europe to the other, with the sole purpose of giving it to an unknown fisherman. The quest sounds like some sort of pilgrimage, and the gift sounds like a tribute to a deity. (In the interest of full disclosure, I am against the pestering and/or killing of fish.)
Top left, The Unknown Fisherman. Top right, the Unknown Fisherman who caught a 22lb4oz hatchery steelhead on the Wynooche in the winter of 2002. Bottom left, an Unknown Fisherman holding a 4-foot long 20 Lb Northern Pike in the year 1900. Bottom right, an Unknown Fisherman circa 2000-2001, participating in the Carmel River Steelhead Catch and Release Program.
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