tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post6897300680568241844..comments2023-12-28T16:38:26.304-08:00Comments on ACravan: The Third Mind (Mark Tobey)ACravanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-75184721239124544402010-11-29T05:52:10.284-08:002010-11-29T05:52:10.284-08:00Yes, wasn't it? It reminded me of specific vi...Yes, wasn't it? It reminded me of specific visual experiences I had regularly as a teenager (before adult thoughts and worries crowded out immediate sensations and "living in the moment") reading in my favorite chair, which Jane now has in her room. It is incredibly comfortable and allows for much greater reclining that I would have thought possible for reading. I actually remember most of the books I read in that chair and a lot of their content. Princess Daisy, the cat, has now discovered the chair, which is, of course, the real test of chair quality. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-30092564920563992412010-11-29T04:15:39.344-08:002010-11-29T04:15:39.344-08:00That was an unusual and slightly unsettling experi...That was an unusual and slightly unsettling experience, Curtis, being Ernst Mach's eyeball, for a few moments.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-2352149465803873122010-11-29T03:53:13.930-08:002010-11-29T03:53:13.930-08:00Jane associates with a very nice and intelligent g...Jane associates with a very nice and intelligent group of girls at her school and frankly I was hoping that they would find BTP both enjoyable and inspirational, which they do. In my thoughtless (more or less) youth, I never believed I would enjoy or value seeing young minds develop, but I do and with all the worthless stuff that gets thrown at us every day, it is uplifting. You might enjoy the following: http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/11/looking-inside-out-ernst-machs-pre-escher-image.html<br />John Ptak, the proprietor of the Science Bookstore in NC, maintains a very entertaining, good humored website full of interesting research and facts and incredible illustrations. I happened upon it one day when I was looking for a reproduction of a Durer engraving (which is far from what he concentrates on) and stumbled into his stimulating world. He had a post, I think, about accounts of "holes in the sky" and what was behind them and I was arrested by the phrase "extra earths". This should be an unusual day. Must get coffee and wake the dogs. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-81153390647032584602010-11-26T02:33:24.071-08:002010-11-26T02:33:24.071-08:00Thank you very much, Curtis, not only for the very...Thank you very much, Curtis, not only for the very sensible and satisfying way you've done the Tobey post, but also for offering the information re. Jane's wonderful name and its very interesting associations -- which I would have, in my prying way, come right out and requested, had not the more discreet (well, it wouldn't take much) half of the partnership intervened.<br /><br />That Jane and her friends are looking at my humble blog is a great, great honour. (To establish a connection with the future in such manner is more than this geezer had any reasonable right or hope to expect!)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-76672422689377359672010-11-25T06:00:51.957-08:002010-11-25T06:00:51.957-08:00Good morning and happy Thanksgiving to you and you...Good morning and happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. What nice things to say. I wanted to say more in this post, but it would taken up too much space and turned academic. I've always really loved Tobey and it was interesting to discover how poorly his images reproduced (using my skills, at least). Jane was born in a small port city in China (Hubei Province) called Wuxue, which apparently has a long, venerable association with the arts as part of its larger history. Her Chinese name is Wu Shui. The "Shui" part means water. The "Wu" relates to the fact that she is from Wuxue. We became a family in a larger city in the province called Wuhan (actually a merger of three cities), which is an important place and the furthest city up the Yangtze that can accommodate deep water boat traffic. It used to be the jumping-off point for the various Three Gorges travel excursions. When we were planning our visit there, I read it described as being a place like Pittsburgh in the 1890s, but that is far from the truth. It's a city of "light industrial" manufacturing and quite an interesting and lively place, although our visit (a fairly long one) was such a whirlwind that it was difficult to properly evaluate it. By the way, Jane (who is a Beyond The Pale reader) has introduced some of her friends to BTP, who like and read it a lot. I was very pleased to learn this. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-31445207144405270412010-11-24T06:55:34.181-08:002010-11-24T06:55:34.181-08:00Thank you Curtis, I like following your line of th...Thank you Curtis, I like following your line of thought.<br /><br />Not that it has anything to do with anything, but we are teased by hearing that Jane's Chinese name means "water" (how beautiful that)...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com