February 23, 2006
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Cubist Epiphany
“In The Painted Word, a
rumination on the state of American painting in the 1970s, Tom Wolfe
described an epiphany….”– Peter Berkowitz, “Literature in Theory”
“I had an epiphany.”
– Apostolos Doxiadis, organizer of last summer’s conference on mathematics and narrative. See the Log24 entry of 1:06 PM last August 23 and the four entries that preceded it.
“… das
Durchleuchten des ewigen Glanzes des ‘Einen’ durch die materielle
Erscheinung“– A definition of beauty from Plotinus, via Werner Heisenberg
“By groping toward the light we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is around us.”– Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy,
Random House, 1973, page 118, quoted in The Shining of May 29“Perhaps we are meant to see the story as a cubist retelling of the crucifixion….”
– Adam White Scoville, quoted in Cubist Crucifixion, on Iain Pears’s novel, An Instance of the Fingerpost
