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PICASSO’S HARLEQUINS ~ The legendary artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is universally adored for his radiant wit. Among his recurring motifs was the harlequin, a traditional mute character of pantomime normally dressed with a mask and a diamond-patterned costume. The harlequin (Italian: arlecchino) personage has its historical origin in the Italian commedia dell’arte, associated with theContinue reading “➿♦️🔶♥️🔷♦️➿ the philology of Picasso’s Romance verve”

I mentioned in my past post ~ The Da Vinci Curse ~ that “things are only ever really strictly relative in the context of human thought.” I have since been examining this complex idea more deeply. A conclusion I have since concretised is that relativity is overwhelmingly a biased notion we have superimposed onto theContinue reading “On Klee, Cubism, and Relativity!”

“The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.” / “La plus belle des ruses du Diable est de vous persuader qu’il n’existe pas.” – Charles Baudelaire Eat ur < 3 out; catch us if u can French literature is a peculiar beast. Today’s French people are obsessed withContinue reading “🧛🏻‍♀️🦟”

THE African nation of Equatorial Guinea / Guinea Ecuatorial 🇪🇸 sits neatly on the West coast of Central Africa, the mainland consisting of a small, sharply defined rectangle of land termed Río Muní, while the insular region is made up of the islands of Bioko -containing the country’s capital Malabo- in the Gulf of GuineaContinue reading “THE “philia” for all legal geniuses”

The Vietnamese language boasts an intriguing combination of Blockfulness and Orientalescence. It is technically a Blockful language, related vaguely in terms of core essence to other languages of South-East Asia and Oceania including Thai, Tamil, and the Aboriginal Australian languages. These modern strands of global heritage are derived from the traditions of the first humansContinue reading “Assimilate🔳🔲🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪⬛️⬜️🟫 (with the Viets & Paul Klee)”

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow fall on the river, A moment white – then melts forever Robert “Rabbie” Burns (1759-1796), Scots language poet

āla = wing ālae = wings volāre = to fly volat = he/she/it flies proprius = one’s own ālis propriīs = with one’s own wings … “With wings – she flies – her own”…? …Alis volat propriis.

German / Deutsch gets a lot of hate for being an ugly language which is jarring to the eye and harsh on the ears. Take “butterfly” 🦋: in French it’s papillon, in Italian farfalla, in Spanish mariposa, in Portuguese borboleta… well, in German it’s Schmetterling. Watch this video, which does contain a couple of smallContinue reading “Through German-honed lenses”

/ A fact I have cited a lot over the Buzz-Concept Project is that in Chinese, people use both sides of the brain – the analytical left hemisphere and the imaginative right hemisphere – to realise the processes inherent to the use of language. In English, meanwhile, it is understood that the left side isContinue reading “Why we are living limited by Chomsky’s so-called universals & free creation”