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December 30, 2009
The total disintegration of nearly everything
When I looked at the inner side of a pot lid the other day, I thought it looked like one of Salvador Dali's rhinocerotic creations (a collection of which I featured in this particularly obsessive post). Dali thought that almost everything could be deconstructed and broken down into rhinoceros horn shapes, including human beings and their souls. "Dust of Souls" (circa 1960) is an example:
And here's my pot lid.
The water droplets are arranged not at random, but in an order dictated by the shape of the lid. Not quite as symmetrical as Dali's play on droplet symmetry in "Galatea of the Spheres," but evocative enough to imagine a comparison. Here's "Galatea of the Spheres" (1952)"
I probably shouldn't be eating creampuff pastries, but I got a bag of highly delicious and addictive ones for Christmas.
While they are not dangerous enough to be immediately fatal, that heavy rich filling inside has, coupled with recent events, made me think about substitute fillings that could be more immediately fatal. Each puff pastry is large enough to contain the same amount of PETN explosive (or TATP, Semtex, or what-have-you) that was found inside Umar Abdulmutallab's panties. It wouldn't be hard for your typical psychopathic Islamist baker to get enough of that nasty stuff into cream puff pastries to turn a lot of people and their souls into tiny flying rhinocerotic shapes. And damn! If I allowed my imagination to get the better of me, I could claim that I now finally understand the clairvoyant subtext of Jerry Garcia's "Cream Puff War." The silly lyrics that for years never made sense (except as a recipe) are taking shape now: Well, can't you see that you're killing each other's soulI never saw any message at all. It wasn't until last week that it ever occurred to me that seemingly "innocent" creampuffs might be made literally fatal, but live and learn. One of these days I should analyze what I saw on TV the other night....
The total disintegration of a reality show. Too many fragments of lost meaning. HT: Veeshir for reminding me that going with the flow of doom can be a form of entertainment. And above all, art! posted by Eric on 12.30.09 at 10:00 AM
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I am not firmly against art therapy! I just don't think it cures terrorism. In fact, by encouraging the creative process, it might actually fuel terrorism. While I'd have prefer to leave math out of this, I also don't think terrorists should be taught about quadratic equations or metric tensors either. The less they know, the better. I think "lead therapy" works best. Better yet, when they're caught, simply let them do what they intended to do, but under properly controlled conditions. Fill a junk plane with terrorists, then have a suicide bomber blow it up (all at a military base, of course.) The results could be studied.... Eric Scheie · December 30, 2009 11:13 AM Shall we expect a treatise now on quadratic equations or metric tensors? I think fractal geometry would be more appropriate. M. Simon · December 30, 2009 01:04 PM Oh, you were referring to the lid of a pot, not a lid of pot. Nevermind. Lovernios · January 2, 2010 12:27 PM Post a comment
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I thought this blog was firmly against Art Therapy. Also, I had been told there would be no math. Shall we expect a treatise now on quadratic equations or metric tensors?