I read youtube comments now and again.
"The worst unison. And fascism. Like the hanging Lincoln cursed by Isaac >Asimov."
That is a google translation from an Asian language, but what is Dr A
doing there?
William Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
I read youtube comments now and again.
"The worst unison. And fascism. Like the hanging Lincoln cursed by Isaac >>Asimov."
That is a google translation from an Asian language, but what is Dr A
doing there?
Perhaps he is a symbol of precision and the Philosophy of the
Enlightenment?
That would seem reasonable from someone who knew only his popular
science works and not his SF.
--scott
Scott Dorsey wrote:
William Hyde wrote:
I read youtube comments now and again.
"The worst unison. And fascism. Like the hanging Lincoln cursed by Isaac >>>Asimov."
That is a google translation from an Asian language, but what is Dr A >>>doing there?
Perhaps he is a symbol of precision and the Philosophy of the
Enlightenment?
That would seem reasonable from someone who knew only his popular
science works and not his SF.
--scott
So what has Lincoln got to do with it?
Charles Packer <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:55:20 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:
William Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
I read youtube comments now and again.
"The worst unison. And fascism. Like the hanging Lincoln cursed by Isaac >>>> Asimov."
That is a google translation from an Asian language, but what is Dr A
doing there?
Perhaps he is a symbol of precision and the Philosophy of the
Enlightenment?
That would seem reasonable from someone who knew only his popular
science works and not his SF.
So what has Lincoln got to do with it?
Yes, and why "hanging?"
--scott
On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:55:20 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:
William Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
I read youtube comments now and again.
"The worst unison. And fascism. Like the hanging Lincoln cursed by Isaac >>>Asimov."
That is a google translation from an Asian language, but what is Dr A >>>doing there?
Perhaps he is a symbol of precision and the Philosophy of the
Enlightenment?
That would seem reasonable from someone who knew only his popular
science works and not his SF.
So what has Lincoln got to do with it?
Bobbie Sellers wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
Charles Packer wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
William Hyde wrote:
I read youtube comments now and again.
"The worst unison. And fascism. Like the hanging Lincoln cursed by >>>>>> Isaac
Asimov."
That is a google translation from an Asian language, but what is Dr A >>>>>> doing there?
Perhaps he is a symbol of precision and the Philosophy of the
Enlightenment?
That would seem reasonable from someone who knew only his popular
science works and not his SF.
So what has Lincoln got to do with it?
Yes, and why "hanging?"
--scott
Because it is in a museum or gallery and it is a work by Dali
employing mosaic techniques. You have to stand back to see Lincoln or
use a special lens to view
Lincoln in this work. It is a painting hanging on a wall or a
lithograph similarly
mounted.
It may be that the term "cursed" is used because the lithographs
are extensively
forged by profiteers.
Just from the URL given in an earlier post.
bliss
I think this may be relevant:
I think this may be relevant:
https://www.buscalibre.us/libro-dali/9788477000877/p/55043140
Shows a Spanish book about Dali, with Asimov listed as the author.
Its not in any of the online Asimov bibliographies, but I
wonder if the comment author was referencing it.
Don wrote:
Cryptoengineer wrote:
Bobbie Sellers wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
Charles Packer wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
William Hyde wrote:
I read youtube comments now and again.
"The worst unison. And fascism. Like the hanging Lincoln cursed by >>>>>>>> Isaac
Asimov."
That is a google translation from an Asian language, but what is Dr A >>>>>>>> doing there?
Perhaps he is a symbol of precision and the Philosophy of the
Enlightenment?
That would seem reasonable from someone who knew only his popular >>>>>>> science works and not his SF.
So what has Lincoln got to do with it?
Yes, and why "hanging?"
--scott
Because it is in a museum or gallery and it is a work by Dali >>>> employing mosaic techniques. You have to stand back to see Lincoln or
use a special lens to view
Lincoln in this work. It is a painting hanging on a wall or a
lithograph similarly
mounted.
It may be that the term "cursed" is used because the lithographs >>>> are extensively
forged by profiteers.
Just from the URL given in an earlier post.
bliss
I think this may be relevant:
I think this may be relevant:
https://www.buscalibre.us/libro-dali/9788477000877/p/55043140
Shows a Spanish book about Dali, with Asimov listed as the author.
Its not in any of the online Asimov bibliographies, but I
wonder if the comment author was referencing it.
There's a typo in busclaibre's database. A couple of authors named
Torroella and Casado wrote DALI:
"Escrito por Rafael Santos Torroella y Maria Jose Casado"
<https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31806044900>
The philosophy of Asimov is apparently averse to the abstractions of
surrealism. In my not so humble opinion as a big fan of both Poe and
Uspensky, the latter two would fully embrace Dali without reservation.
Thank you William. This thread did not waste my time. On the other hand,
your very own mileage may vary.
Asimov rarely if ever mentions art in his writings.
If any SF writer who was not himself an artist were to write about Dali,
I'd expect it to be J.G. Ballard.
Charles Packer wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
William Hyde wrote:
I read youtube comments now and again.
"The worst unison. And fascism. Like the hanging Lincoln cursed by >>>>Isaac Asimov."
That is a google translation from an Asian language, but what is Dr A >>>>doing there?
Perhaps he is a symbol of precision and the Philosophy of the
Enlightenment?
That would seem reasonable from someone who knew only his popular
science works and not his SF.
--scott
So what has Lincoln got to do with it?
"Hanging Lincoln" [1] is an visual phenomenon. LINCOLN IN DALIVISION [2] popularizes it.
It was recently my pleasure to indoctrinate a female artist half my
age into Dali's Magic Realism [3]. Although as a child Dali's art scared
her, as an adult artist, he now inspires her (thanks to me).
Open question: Is "Hanging Lincoln" more captivating than visual vixen "Lenna" [4]?
[1] <https://michaelbach.de/ot/fcs-mosaic/>
[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_in_Dalivision>
[3] <http://tendreams.org/magic4.htm>
[4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna>
ObSF:
(repost of an earlier article)
"Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true!"
"Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life."
"To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,"
Suppose God delivers the afterlife you crave. For instance, if you don't believe in an afterlife, then your afterlife is nihility itself. You get nonexistence because you want it.
An afterlife qualifies as posthuman on a most personal level. All of which brings us to _babylon sisters and other posthumans_ (di filippo).
Or, more specifically, to a short story in the di filippo collection
called "a short course in art appreciation."
In the story, a peptidergic pill induces a physiological, perceptual change in users. They experience a different "perceptiverse" based upon
the pill ingested. A Dali pill delivers a Dali environment. A Vermeer
pill provides a Vermeer perceptiverse, and so on. As art aficionado
Alena enthuses:
"By taking this new neurotropin we'll be enabled to see not /like/
Rembrandt, but as if /inhabiting/ Rembrandt's canvases!"
There's a hitch, of course. A hitch to provide story tension.
In the story, a peptidergic pill induces a physiological, perceptual
change in users. They experience a different "perceptiverse" based upon
the pill ingested. A Dali pill delivers a Dali environment. A Vermeer
pill provides a Vermeer perceptiverse, and so on. As art aficionado
Alena enthuses:
"By taking this new neurotropin we'll be enabled to see not /like/
Rembrandt, but as if /inhabiting/ Rembrandt's canvases!"
There's a hitch, of course. A hitch to provide story tension.
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