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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook: "It is the sound that dreaming makes when it turns the earth." — J. Karl Bogartte |
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Rahel took off her new fingers, and had her old finger- colored fingers back. Not yellow, not green, not blue, not red. Not yellow.
—Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1998
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I dreamed I attended the gala Semicolon Ball at the Ducal Palace, where I danced the night away with John McIntyre of the Baltimore Sun. John recalls the exhilaration that was National Grammar Day: The cheers of the crowds lining the streets at the parade still echo in one’s ears. It was a swirl of events, the hourly cannon fire salute from the Citadel, the Te Deum sung at the Cathedral, the torchlight procession and laying of a wreath at the Cenotaph of the Unknown Copy Editor, the fireworks display, the Semicolon Ball at the Ducal Palace, the governor’s generous clemency in releasing the detainees from the stockade at midnight. A glorious day.
--- TootsNYC wrote: I think it would be fun to dance the night away w/ John McIntyre.
(btw, have you read the last page of "The Wintersmith" by Terry Pratchett? You should, you "tricksie semicolon," you.)
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Saint MarkoPatron of the Street Corner. Saint Marko is known as the: - Watcher of watchers (people-watchers, night watchmen, everyday doings, etc.)
- Patron of Metacommunication ("master of talking about talking about...")
- Stockboy of the universe's good ideas
- Spiritual accountant for the entities of Science, Religion, and Humanity
- Caretaker of the most contorted imaginations, returning them to higher ground when they fall off the deep end of reality's waterfall
His most common symbol is a hairpin, in honor of his guardianship over hairpin turns. He has had a color palette created in his name. ![[CLC] Saint Marko](http://www.colourlovers.com/badge/p/281590/%5BCLC%5D_Saint_Marko.png) The symbols on the so-called "Runic Tablet of Saint Marko" depict various types of intersections. (Thanks to Codename Gimmick!)
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Piecing together the secret of the runes . . . |
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  by TzatzikiTeardrops as PrismsIntense moments in life can bring tears of both joy and pain. There can also be tears of something that transcends bodily feelings and emotions. These are tears of realization, when a union of some sort transforms into communion, or a passion transforms into compassion. "Bliss" might be the best word for this tearful state of being, though words are too limited. One way to inspire such tears is to look deeply into someone's eyes and to hold the gaze. A friend once shared the insight that teardrops are prisms, reflecting and refracting angles and colors of life that can't be seen with dry eyes. Mozambique author Mia Couto suggests that tearful eyes are liquid conduits to the world of the unconscious, and that through the prism of a teardrop you can see visions of things not as you wish they were but as they really are. It's as if teardrops dissolve away one's defensive walls to reveal the archetypes dwelling in the background, the mythology taking place beneath the surface of the workaday world. Throughout the ages, the joys, pains, and revelations of life have invited artists to gaze through teardrop prisms and to share their visions. [Read the entire article in my guest blog at ColourLovers.com.]
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Big gray [moths] with reddish markings, pale blue- green, yellow with lavender, and red and yellow."
"What do you mean by 'red and yellow?'" asked the Bird Woman so quickly that the girl almost jumped.
"Not exactly red," explained Elnora, with tremulous voice. "A reddish, yellowish brown, with canary- coloured spots and gray lines on their wings."
—Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost, 1909.
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"Horses are, in fact, natural Taoists. ... Taoism is best known in popular culture for the 'yin-yang' circle, its two interlocking tadpole-like symbols representing the balance of opposites in the universe and in the human psyche: white and black, light and dark, sound and silence, doing something and doing nothing. To the relentlessly assertive, patriarchal Western mind, the Taoist picture of reality at first appears contrary to everything we believe because it asks us to consider the opposite of our normal inclinations. One of the most famous quotes from the Tao Te Ching advises us to 'know the yang, but keep to the yin,' which often appears in translation as 'know the masculine but keep to the feminine.' When I was with horses, I began to live this philosophy." — Linda Kohanov, The Tao of Equus |
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Piecing together the secret of the ruined castle . . . |
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The sun came down through miles of leaves and got broken up like a pointillist painting, deep green and dapple shadows but brilliant light in a soaring deep green super- bower, a perpetual lime- green light, green- and- gold afternoon, stillness, perpendicular peace, wood- scented, with the cars going by on Route 84 just adding pneumatic sound effects, sheee- ooooooooo, like a gentle wind.
—Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 1968
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Piecing together the secret of the rose . . .
A red rose misted with water and illuminated by multicolored LED flashlights. Photo by Tio.
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 by Claire L. EvansUnusual Color WheelsThe first color wheel (a.k.a. color circle) has been traced back to Sir Isaac Newton, who in 1706 arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk. As the disk spins, the colors blur together so rapidly that the human eye sees white. Artists have been experimenting with color wheels ever since, finding inspiration in everything from cocktail umbrellas, river rocks, autumn leaves, pencil shavings, to juggling. The Happy Hour color wheel consists of exotic cocktail umbrellas. It was created by Bright Lights Little City: 
The Rocks color wheel is a collection of stones from Salmon River, Idaho. It was assembled by Purl Bee: 
This Yarn Skeinlet color wheel features dyes made of cochineal (ground up cactus-eating scale insects), osage orange, chamomile, indigo and logwood. It was created by Sarah of the Blue Garter blog: 
The Circle of Life color wheel was created by Thalandor as a tribute to the artist Mother Nature: 
This Kusudama (Medicine Ball) color wheel was created by Origami artist Vanessa Gould: 
The Pencil Shavings color wheel was photographed by Myruby: 
This Garden Blossom color wheel is the work of Tiny Haus: 
The Juggler color wheel was painted by Kenneth Callicutt: 
The Chalk color wheel was photographed near Parc De La Villette, Paris, by Jacobz: 
[Read the entire article in my guest blog at ColourLovers.com.]
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