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poetry of physics as of painting, diagramme notwithstanding; the reversability of time or as of the three paradoxes as in Deleuze and the redundancy of the possible being: everything is alive
James Gleick calls the flight from Europe to the United States in the mid-1930s, ‘the greatest intellectual migration in history.’ The aptness of his description struck me and I wanted to record it here. [James Gleick, Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics, Abacus, London, 2006, p. 167]
– Ad Reinhardt, from
Tell it to the Birds: Tiwakawaka
Матрёшка: usually wooden doll (У них нет рук) in peasant dress (Темы для рисования могут быть очень разными: от сказочных персонажей и до политических деятелей) with successively smaller ones fitted inside (матрёшки появились в России только после Русско-
– Matrëshka [poss. derivation above], Condom Alley, Auckland, 21/5/09
Light and the leaf that fell
The sun would not radiate if it were alone in space and no other bodies could absorb its radiation. … If for example I observed through my telescope yesterday evening that star … 100 light years away, then not only did I know that the light which it allowed to reach my
Socratic erotic noesis: cf. aesthetic noesis in Deleuze, the sentiendum; illustrated with two paintings of Tony Fomison and a quotation
– Tony Fomison, Study after Holbein’s Dead Christ, 1971-1973
As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom and decorum of the things inside you. As you
JG Ballard: in memoriam
JG Ballard dies six days before my father. He is 78, renowned for the surgical prose of his novels and the ordinariness of the life he chose for himself after enduring the internment camp at Lunghua, 1943-1945. His last book is a memoir, Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton (2008)