Showing posts with label Magritte. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Magritte. Show all posts

Friday, 2 August 2013

Googolplex



5
6H 7He 8Li 9Be 10B 11C 12N 13O 14F Ne 11
6
7H 8He 9Li 10Be 11B 12C 13N 14O 15F 16Ne Na 12

7 9He 10Li 11Be 12B 13C 14N 15O 16F 17Ne 18Na Mg 13

8 10He 11Li 12Be 13B 14C 15N 16O 17F 18Ne 19Na 20Mg Al 14

9 12Li 13Be 14B 15C 16N 17O 18F 19Ne 20Na 21Mg 22Al Si

Sunday, 11 March 2012

elective affinites/ magritte / 1933























One night, I woke up in a room in which a cage with a bird sleeping in it had been placed. A magnificent error caused me to see an egg in the cage, instead of the vanished bird. I then grasped a new and astonishing poetic secret, for the shock which I experienced had been provoked precisely by the affinity of two objects -- the cage and the egg -- to each other, whereas previously this shock had been caused by my bringing together two objects that were unrelated

Saturday, 7 March 2009


"L'Alphabet des revelations"
a key
a leaf
a glass
tangled string
La, le



This is not a pipe