Natural Forms & Spherical Thinkers

[william_kent]

Incomprehensible. Reminds me of the 'continental thinkers' lukes always going on about

from an essay on Prynne's "Blue Slides at Rest":

 

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from an eassy on Prynne's "Blue Slides at Rest":

There's such a thing as reading too much into things.

 

[DLaurent]

The name of the main Dutch historian I'm thinking of escapes me, he wrote a book on greek mythology when exiled from the nazis, but it was as epic as Huzinga or another Dutch theorist.

It took me a couple of weeks to think of his name, but I meant Erich Auerbach. Was thrown off the scent by thinking he was Dutch exiled to Greece, not German in Turkey. I read Mimesis a long time ago.

 

[DLaurent]

It took me a couple of weeks to think of his name, but I meant Erich Auerbach. Was thrown off the scent by thinking he was Dutch exiled to Greece, not German in Turkey. I read Mimesis a long time ago.

Makes more sense as Greece was occupied in WW2.

 

[william_kent]

Nautilus​

Flat Shell

Poison Shell

Monarch


from this brief article featuring 23 illustrations by Rafael Araujo

“Through the thorough use of geometry, I try to attain and worship the platonic perfection of Nature.”

 

[luka]

probably a nazi occultist

 

[Murphy]

Nautilus​

Flat Shell

Poison Shell

Monarch


from this brief article featuring 23 illustrations by Rafael Araujo

23!

given shell geometry cropped up in a certain free party doc discussion, a distillation in form as we didn’t wanna spiral bomb previously