PRAGUE BIZARRE

It was a small room furnished with steel chairs with red seats, a glass topped steel table and a divan covered with black American cloth.  Over the chromium-plated electric fireplace hung a reproduction of a Juan Gris still-life.  On the opposite wall was a faded brown photograph of Rosa Luxemburg in a rococo gilt frame.  The general effect was, to say the least of it, bizarre.

Kinks: Dreams (Link) 

Text:  Eric Ambler, Uncommon Danger (1937) 

Jane Roberts' Dream Project (Link) 

DREAMS FLOODED

 Dreams flooded over me, 

I lay weary and helpless in my bed.


  

From: Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks (The Fifth Notebook), Edited by Max Brod, Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Cambridge, Exact Change, 1991.

Paintings by Adolf Menzel:  Upper – Three Pipes Problem, The Windows of the Mind, 1868; Lower – The Studio Wall, 1872.

True Dat

   Yet, one ‘can' also apply the proposition to itself and try to depict it in its turn.


    One ‘can’ do that,  just as one can walk on one’s hands and stand on one’s head , though this is contrary to the ‘grammar,” as it were , of heads, hands and feet.


    We ‘can’  of course do such a thing by way of experiment, to see what happens, and the result may be interesting for some specialized branch of knowledge.  But what we must not do is to generalize the result and derive from it new rules of grammar about those modes of behavior.  Yet this is precisely what is involved in the attempt to evaluate such an experiment philosophically.  

 

Text:  Paul Engelmann, Letters from Ludwig Wittgenstein,  Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1957, p.  102.


Paintings by Eliot Hodgkin.  Top:  Two Large Flints, 1963.  Bottom: Four Flints, 1939.


Dreams: The Kinks (Link).