the appearance of the idea of the universe...
"it is the things close at hand that give the idea of the universe as the human eye sees it, a universe which can be undulated concave or convex..."
pierre bonnard
Labels: apparations, concave, convex, pierre bonnard, the universe
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As above, so below.
cole swensen wrote a lovely book of poems under the influence of bonnard's painting:
http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/glass_age.html
as with just about all of her writing, I recommend it!
"I have been reading comparative cosmology. At this time most cosmologists favor the picture of the evolving universe described by Lemaitre and Gamov. But I prefer a suggestion made years ago by Valéry - Paul Valéry. He set forth the notion that the universe might be 'head-shaped.'"
Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk
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