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A Fold in Time
Braque
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Above: Braque and tesseract
"The senses deform, the mind forms. Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives."
-- Georges Braque, Reflections on Painting, 1917
Those who wish to follow Braque's advice may try the following exercise from a book first published in 1937:
Hint: See the above picture of
Braque and the construction of
a tesseract.
Related material:
Storyline and Time Fold
(both of Oct. 10, 2003),
and the following--
"Time, for L'Engle, is accordion-pleated. She elaborated, 'When you
bring a sheet off the line, you can't handle it until it's folded, and
in a sense, I think, the universe can't exist until it's folded-- or
it's a story without a book.'"
-- Cynthia Zarin on Madeleine L'Engle,
"The Storyteller," in The New Yorker,
issue dated April 12, 2004
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