tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post8537561509157105415..comments2023-05-08T06:54:19.564-07:00Comments on Null Epistolary: Ever we fall, ever we get up again...Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-76900320398915176792010-07-12T22:03:32.680-07:002010-07-12T22:03:32.680-07:00Ah, that moulding rail! The longer side gives it a...Ah, that moulding rail! The longer side gives it away rather badly. I googled all the images you referenced and see exactly what you're saying. For me, the weirder ones are of the latter category.<br /><br />Of the ones that "glue together all wrongly", I think your statement, "that it couldn't be embedded in our space the way he's drawn it, without any distortion"Paul Stilwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-74608669315842318892010-07-10T13:46:40.255-07:002010-07-10T13:46:40.255-07:00Getting back to the other thing...
I think it use...Getting back to the other thing...<br /><br />I think it useful to recognize two sorts of weirdness you're likely to find in Escher; I'm not sure which is weirder... the one is exemplified in <i>Ascending and Descending</i>, where small bits of the picture are quite sensible, but they glue together all wrong. <i>Belvedere</i> and <i>Convex and Concave</i> are other examples.<br /><br />Belfry Bathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-47215819369226985352010-07-09T22:53:18.232-07:002010-07-09T22:53:18.232-07:00A clever friend gave me a coffee-table-book full o...A clever friend gave me a coffee-table-book full of them one Christmas. Now what would be <i>even more clever</i> is to obtain a house with space for a coffee table!<br /><br />I suppose I should graduate and find a posting somewhere, first...Belfry Bathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-82907240579116346872010-07-09T21:28:15.877-07:002010-07-09T21:28:15.877-07:00My math and data-processing teacher in high school...My math and data-processing teacher in high school had his prints up in the room.<br /><br />I was always fascinated as well (though not exactly a fan), trying to see all the contradictions together as a whole after viewing them separately; it was like being on the verge of seeing some new dimension.<br /><br />But it was always on the verge.Paul Stilwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.com