August 10, 2009

  • Annals of Aesthetics, continued:

    Pictures Within Pictures

    "The Chinese language is written in ideograms, pictures. Think of a DO NOT ENTER pictogram, a circle with a diagonal slash, a type of ideogram. It tells you what to do or not do, but not why. The why is part of a larger context, a bigger picture. Such is the nature of the Chinese language. Simple yet complex. Pictures within pictures."

    -- Customer review at Amazon.com

    See also the pictures in this journal on today's date five years ago.