Lucianesque (2)

Adam: You talked to a tree?

Eve: Well, not quite the tree itself. A snake in the tree.

Adam: A snake? What's a snake?

Eve: Well, a little like what you have there [points and giggles] and I don't.

Adam: What did the snake say?

Eve: The snake said this place is a garden.

Adam: Really?

Eve: Really.

Adam: What's a garden?

Eve: What's a garden? Well, the snake said....

Adam: The snake said what?

Eve: Well, the snake said a garden is a little like a bush.

Adam: Really?

Eve: Really.

Adam: A bush? What's a bush?

Eve: Well, it's a little like [points to herself and giggles] what I have here.

Adam: That's a bush?

Eve: Well, Adam, like a bush.

Adam: Really?

Eve: Really.

Adam: Oh.


[copyright EAC January 2008]

Incognito (Animated Anaglyph)

"Of the same sort was what Count Ludovico said to a man who wished to travel incognito through a certain dangerous place and did not know how to disguise himself; and the Count, being asked about it, replied: 'Dress like a doctor or some other man of learning.'"

[Baldesar Castiglione tr. S. Singleton]



An animated anaglyph, designed to be viewed with 3D glasses--Blue right, Red left.

Transmission Two Double Aught Seven

Teknolojical Rationalitee

"When the savages are hungry, they scatter in the forest, they begin the exorcisms, and beg the animals with tasty meet...to have pity on them and fall in their nets and feed the human race that is in danger...."

[Nikos Kazantzakis]


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Ballistics Descending A Staircase

"Spatially speaking, he stands in doorways and presides as janitor over entrances and exits; in the temporal sense he is the beginning: his month is Januarius, the first month, standing between the year that is beginning and the one that has ended. He faces two directions because every passage implies two places, two states, one left behind and one being approached. Janus is a hinge, a pivot...."

[Octavio Paz, after Dumezil on Marcel Duchamp]

Kala Christougena

"Then he starts a new sentence, abandons it before he finishes the first two words. You can feel from his agitation that it is his first time on the air and he does not yet feel at home. 'Yes,' he says after a little while, 'an ancient Egyptian said, 'Happy is he who has seen the most water in his life....'"

[Helen Kazantzakis]

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Zounds

"Grant that the putative difference between appearance and reality, whether or not it is a real difference or merely an apparent one--the latter possibility in itself being a luscious idea--grant that whatever this difference, one can say safely enough that no one has ever made the argument that appearances are somehow not perceived...."

[E. A. C. Paleolithic Patronage]