Saturday, April 2, 2011

'Pataphysical Inquiries (part one, baby)

Start with the substance of the accident: lead
CRT screens employed lead in order to exercise glare reduction
Glare:
noun
1. a. Dazzling brilliance (of a light, fire, sun, etc.); a strong fierce light. Also, dazzling or oppressive sunshine, esp. when falling upon reflecting surfaces and not relieved by shadow
b. The glistening or shining of some surface
2. fig. Dazzling or showy appearance; gaudiness; tawdry brilliance
3. A fierce of piercing look
noun 2
a. Frost, icy condition (obs.)
b. A sheet of ice
adjective
1. Smooth and bright or translucent, glassy. Chiefly of ice.
verb
1. To shine with a brilliant or dazzling light. Also of light itself.
b. To display oneself ostentatiously: to be obtrusively evident or conspicuous.
2. To look fixedly and fiercely.
3. To send forth or express with a glare
4. To reflect with a glare. Also to glare back.
(all this from OED)

to be continued

but also...





Two things (let's see where they go):

Icy glare (icy look); let's see what comes up via Google:



Misfire

...

How about dazzle?
Links to programs and restaurants...

Translucent...glassy...

This came up...no joke.

Glassybaby - Goddamn it, I don't want to follow a chain of inference on baby.

Oh well, let's see where it goes...

Quickly: What is a baby? It's a person who's not yet entered the symbolic order, someone who sits outside of the dominance of literate thought patterns.

At one point in The Wild Bunch, Don Jose tells William Holden that we all seek to be children again, perhaps even more so for the worst of us.

Could it be that we have a desire to see to escape the quotidian regulations of a world based on strenuous competition and values of a scientifically motivated milieu?

Speak Like a Child:

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