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"See the fabulous Go-Jos dancing on the Moon" (A question of the Human Condition?)

Allegorical? But what might that allegory import?

"Welcome to Surrealmageddon ..." Diabolyric#1 by Bienvenido Bones Bañez Jr.

M I S C H A L T H E = ALCHEMIST (Isaac Newton and Raymond Lull uncover an anagram in Paradise Lost Book I, lines 207-216)

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Him haply slumbring on the Norway foam

The Pilot of some small night-founder'd Skiff, 

Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell,

With fixed Anchor in his skaly rind

Moors by his side under the lee, while night

Invests the sea, and wished morn delays. 

So stretched out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay, 

Chained on the burning lake; nor ever thence 

Had risen, or heaved his head, but that the will 

And high permission of all-ruling Heaven 

Left him at large to his own dark designs, 

That with reiterated crimes he might 

Heap on himself damnation, while he sought 

Evil to others, and enraged might see 

How all his malice served but to bring forth...

Thanks to John Geraghty

Interrogating the "Highbrow Moment"

Disruption effects: broken expectations, skewed symmetry, physiological-optical legerdemain

Off you pop then chap, best of luck. Pip, pip tally-ho!

Surrealism absent... what? What is missing? Care? Application? Critical judgement? Inspiration? Attention to detracting details, and the artist's "psychological need" to forcefully remove and/or correct those blemishes (for example, the stock "illustration quality" rocks in the foreground, the sloppy starfield)

"The Flight of the Dragonfly" by Michael Gilbertt, 1970. (maybe)

Sensationalism, escapism, aesthetic recreation for selective tastes... Classified ads from Weird Tales, May 1949

 

Ham Radio (www.ham-radio.live)

Talk, listen, connect, any frequency

Introduction HERE

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Cat Purring for 10 Hours

But is it actually relaxing, really? 

Hmm.

A rule emerges:

It's not the purr, it's the purrer.

Maybe.

Countdown to the Equinox

Look into my chromatophores...

The Secret Hide-out

 

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Aesthetically pleasing or aesthetically interesting? And in what ways?

Vigil Finlay for Startling Stories 1952

From Fliegende Blätter (1928)

 Brief Wiki gloss HERE.

Encounter with depth perception (heading-driven, packaged, focus-centring syntax code response - without labelling, can illusionary visual stimuli compare to an utterance?)

Andrea Pavan

Christopher Hitchens - Why Women Still Aren't Funny

Yes and no.

The question remains whether one can or cannot heap so much generalised characterisation upon a distinction (male/female) that is, yes, topological, but also is expressed through so many variations that both conform to and break away from those self-same typologies, and sometimes miraculously?   If Hitchens were still alive, I should suggest he find a woman whom he finds funny--and also very attractive. Such a solution solves all the problems about which he is evidently concerned, though unfortunately introducing a few others...  

The whole thing is obviously of a "promotional" nature--at one point Hitchens seems gently bothered to repress a laugh at the whole thing. 

Though interesting (maybe, I was unable to sit through the entire video, and switched it off).  Highbrow?  Not really.

Highbrow reflections from Emily Brontë (But too sober, too abstract, so as to forfeit the "highbrow" designation? Hmm. Could be. Highbrow is properly of a happy, and, very importantly, of a sociable nature; that is, by its essential character bringing people together to pursue Aristotelian goals unencumbered by distracting metaphysical excursions, Q.E.D.)

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I die but when the grave shall press 

The heart so long endeared to thee 

When earthy cares no more distress 

And earthy joys are nought to me. 

Weep not, but think that I have past 

Before thee o'er the sea of gloom. 

Have anchored safe and rest at last 

Where tears and mouring can not come. 

'Tis I should weep to leave thee here 

On that dark ocean sailing drear 

With storms around and fears before 

And no kind light to point the shore. 

But long or short though life may be 

'Tis nothing to eternity. 

We part below to meet on high 

Where blissful ages never die.

                         ― Emily Brontë

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Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë