Dear List,
 
Yesterday's posting was incomplete. I had asked S-B. Bootle about "language", if these complex implications concerning "multiplication" might indicate  a vision of the universe ( and isn't it ours now a "multiverse" and the "atoms" of yore ever divisible?), the Greek mathematical one, as closed or as originating from reality "One". 
He answered: Contrary to Sapir-Whorf, all Natural Languages have spatial and temporal markers.
 
Here is a VN quote, for the manifold worlds arising from a sheet of paper, from PF and its "plexed artistry",  since it seems to relate to a sentence from RLSK:" ... And not only himself, everything would be unravelled -- everything that he might imagine in our childish terms of space and time, both being riddles invented by man as riddles, and thus coming back to us: the boomerangs of nonsense ..." 

Here it is: 
 

                                                  Just this: not text, but texture; not the dream

                                                  But topsy-turvical coincidence,

                                           810   Not flimsy nonsense, but a web of sense.

                                                  Yes! It sufficed that I in life could find

                                                  Some kind of link-and-bobolink, some kind

                                                  Of correlated pattern in the game,

                                                  Plexed artistry, and something of the same

                                                  Pleasure in it as they who played it found.

 

 

BTW: the paper-cutting, with butterfly and predator, belongs to a collection of works entered into a contest, but I have not the name of the museum, nor its author's  at hand right now: perhaps Hirshfeld?

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