P, Very Misc.

[Michael Bailey]

 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This might lead to spirited argumentative dismissals and
> "refutations"...........
> (OR, just guffaws, with most laughing too hard to post---)

or a third alternative, that we hadn't even counted upon,
that Officer Obie arrested us and threw us in jail...
(Obie was makin' sure, and it was about 5 or 6 hours later
that Alice - remember Alice?...)

>
> But, we know linearity, 45* angles, and such are not positive tropes in TRP's
> fiction....and Against the Day mostly showed lotsa positive associations with
> curves...paths, roads, circular courtyards, more......

the Line in M&D also seen as deleterious to the Feng Shui of America

actually, isn't it 90 degrees of orthogonality that denotes the opposition
(actually, it's called a square in astrology) between Slothrop's
bureaucratically smegmatic work environment and Mucker-Maffick's
neatened desk, eg?

by the time you get to 45 degrees, you're breaking it down in the
direction of fractality and differentiability, aren't you?


>
> I might argue that TRP sees curved shapes as natural and angles and lines
> usually not.......................
>

I think Buckminster Fuller was deeply into that as well

> So, ignore this stupid story wrapped around the science and judge curves and the
>
> human in another new way? ?
>
> If you prefer a full figure to a stick one, you’re not alone. Researchers at
> Johns Hopkins have found that the brain is hardwired to appreciate curves.

contra to The Messiah, in which "the crooked shall be made plain"?

> The Baltimore Sun says they used a series of sculptures by the artist Jean
> Arp—and not photos of Kim Kardashian—to come to their conclusion.
>

cool.  despite my tangential objections above, I tend to agree!