Afghan nights: the poppy field

Apparatus for understanding

Joseph Judd Pennell, “Portrait of Mrs. Lieutenant Farber,” 1900. Joseph Judd Pennell Photographs Collection, University of Kansas, https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-pennell/963. Edited for blemish removal and contrast.

Memoir after dark

There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.

— Areopagitica

Jewel

Don’t wear. Be.

Eye ball

Each part lives. Each part sees.

Planetoids: the King James Version

Jude 13

Not illuminated from within. Transparency impenetrable.

Not a toy but a precision instrument

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radiometer_9965_Nevit.gif

Reflex

1935

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All times before

Thinking in the body, Balanchine conceives of “Jewels”