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Panini was a Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and revered scholar in ancient India (4th century BCE)
Read more: Pāṇini and Bharata on Grammar and Art - Pāṇini, Xuanzang, and Tolkāppiyaṉ: Some legends and history - A 21 year old’s appreciation post on Panini’s Astadhyayi
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The sign-order fractal
(image source, source) #KM #Art #Creativity #Generative #Narrative #Philosophy
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In linguistics, Escher sentences are sentences which initially seem acceptable but upon further reflection have no well-formed meaning.
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Hotel Belvedere in Oberwald, Switzerland
Let's play a game: Close your eyes for 30 seconds and simply imagine what stories and dramas might have occurred in this peculiar place over the past centuries. Please share if anything interesting arises.
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Four Fiends From The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Now public domain, this 1952 novel was written by Amos Tutuola, a Nigerian man inspired by the folk tales he'd grown up on - folk tales which, at the time, were rapidly dwindling in popularity and even acceptability as Christian missionaries fought hard to "modernize" the "primitive" people of other nations. The story would go on to become the first piece of African literature ever published in English overseas, but blasted by critics of the 50's as a "barbaric and savage" work, offending their delicate little senses with its sometimes vulgar comedy, graphic morbidity, gratuitous use of sorcery and unconventional writing style, rife with the artifacts of terminology and grammar that simply cannot translate directly to English. Regardless, the Palm-Wine Drinkard is now recognized as one of the most important pieces of literature to come out of the 50's, and time capsule of black African folkloric tradition that once came dangerously close to being largely forgotten.
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Abstraction: Illustration from the cover of the Book "Exercises de style" - by Raymond Queneau
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A 'reduction' comic strip by Gilles Ciment, based on 'The Adventures of Tintin'
In the example below, Gilles Ciment, a co-founder of the Oubapo, presents a constraint called “reduction.” The challenge is to distill one of the standard 62-page stories of The Adventures of Tintin to as few as six images. Obviously, to some degree, the appreciation of such reductions relies on the readers knowledge of the source text, in this case Les cigares du pharaon.
In his “reduction,” Ciment seeks to valorize the “ligne claire” or “clean line,” one of the most distinctive formal characteristics of Hergé’s early albums. In deciding on his method, Ciment specified that he had to respect the order of the images in the narrative and limit his choices to key moments of the story, in order to simultaneously say something new and interesting about the story, the characters, and the author.
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The Conference of the Birds (منطق الطیر) - by Farid ud-Din Attar (1177) (PDF)
