Poetics in the Space Age

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit

Stories about living and living well and living while writing and living while loving good things and particularly art, good lit, fine film, et cetera. Nothing is so sacred that it does not bear repeating.
largeheartedboy: “The Cocktail Chart of Film & Literature” print from Pop Chart Lab lists famous drinks from books and movies, complete with recipes.

largeheartedboy:

“The Cocktail Chart of Film & Literature” print from Pop Chart Lab lists famous drinks from books and movies, complete with recipes.

Some of them said these words over and over until their voices lost all value, like they were nothing but noises coming far off from some foreign city, bouncing through the sea and fog, meaningless across so many latitudes.

—from The Four Voyages of Gregory Prior

Every dreary place is far too familiar.

—from The Four Voyages of Gregory Prior

What Gregory did not understand, and this he also inherited from Cato, is that people are not simply lessons to learn or books to read and if you treat them as such then you will be hard-pressed in the future finding people to treat you as you think you deserve.

—from The Four Voyages of Gregory Prior

geometrymatters: “All five stone arrays can be overlapped one upon the other with different comer matchings until a beautiful polyhedron with 121 “great circles” and 4,862 points has been developed. This is the ultimate single sphere pattern which houses all five Platonic solids within multiple orientations. [..] Plato’s description in the Timaeus of a cosmology based on the five regular volumes (tetrahedron, octahedron, cube, icosahedron, and dodecahedron) echoes Pythagorean teaching regarding the manifestation of the infinite within the finite. Plato postulates a metaphysics in which the four elements of Greek science — earth, air, fire, and water — are associated with four of the five solids.”

geometrymatters:

“All five stone arrays can be overlapped one upon the other with different comer matchings until a beautiful polyhedron with 121 “great circles” and 4,862 points has been developed. This is the ultimate single sphere pattern which houses all five Platonic solids within multiple orientations. [..]


Plato’s description in the Timaeus of a cosmology based on the five regular volumes (tetrahedron, octahedron, cube, icosahedron, and dodecahedron) echoes Pythagorean teaching regarding the manifestation of the infinite within the finite. Plato postulates a metaphysics in which the four elements of Greek science — earth, air, fire, and water — are associated with four of the five solids.”