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Simple pleasures of life

14 Sunday Jun 2009

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Naming Infinity

10 Wednesday Jun 2009

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As a comment to Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity, a  book by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor, I post this image “Vespers” by  John Singer Sargent.

Vespers, by John Singer Sargent

I love it for the expression of a specific concentration of mind which could be read as mystical — or mathematical, if one inclined so. What is the difference, after all? This is a common facial expression of a person in communication with the deepest level of his subconsciousness.  Sargent painted “Vespers” in an Orthodox monastery at Corfu, but I have seen the same faces, in the same kind of mediterranean light, say, at Luminy.

The painting is in a museum in Liverpool, I can attest that the original is much subtler than any reproduction.

More Lions in Lyon

03 Wednesday Jun 2009

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black lion
lion at bellecour
lion at cafe leffe

another lion at bellecour
lion at villemanzy
lion on a bridge

pink lion
winged lion

Places I visited: a lion in Lyon

03 Wednesday Jun 2009

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Halle de Lyon

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