François Villon (XVe siècle) - Ballade du concours de Blois

Je meurs de seuf aupres de la fontaine,
Chault comme feu et tremble dent a dent;
En mon pays suis en terre loingtaine,
Lez ung brasier frissonne tout ardent;
Nu comme ung ver, vestu en president;
Je riz en pleurs et attens sans espoir;
Confort reprens en triste desespoir;
Je m'esjouÿs et n'ay plaisir aucun;
Puissant je suis sans force et sans povoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

Riens ne m'est seur que la chose incertaine,
Obscur fors ce qui est tout evident;
Doubte ne fais fors en chose certaine;
Scïence tiens a soudain accident;
Je gaigne tout et demeure perdent;
Au point du jour diz : «Dieu vous doint bon soir ! »;
Gisant envers, j'ay grand paeur de chëoir;
J'ay bien de quoy et si n'en ay pas ung;
Eschoicte actens et d'homme ne suis hoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

De riens n'ay soing, si mectz toute m'atayne
D'acquerir biens et n'y suis pretendent;
Qui mieulx me dit, c'est cil qui plus m'actaine,
Et qui plus vray, lors plus me va bourdent;
Mon ami est qui me faict entendent
D'ung cigne blanc que c'est ung corbeau noir,
Et qui me nuyst, croy qu'i m'ayde a pourvoir;
Bourde, ver(i)té, aujourd'uy m'est tout ung;
Je retiens tout, riens ne sçay concepvoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

Prince clement, or vous plaise sçavoir
Que j'entens moult et n'ay sens ne sçavoir;
Parcïal suis, a toutes loys commun.
Que fais je plus ? Quoy ! les gaiges ravoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

François Villon (XVe siècle) - Ballade du concours de Blois

Je meurs de seuf aupres de la fontaine,
Chault comme feu et tremble dent a dent;
En mon pays suis en terre loingtaine,
Lez ung brasier frissonne tout ardent;
Nu comme ung ver, vestu en president;
Je riz en pleurs et attens sans espoir;
Confort reprens en triste desespoir;
Je m'esjouÿs et n'ay plaisir aucun;
Puissant je suis sans force et sans povoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

Riens ne m'est seur que la chose incertaine,
Obscur fors ce qui est tout evident;
Doubte ne fais fors en chose certaine;
Scïence tiens a soudain accident;
Je gaigne tout et demeure perdent;
Au point du jour diz : «Dieu vous doint bon soir ! »;
Gisant envers, j'ay grand paeur de chëoir;
J'ay bien de quoy et si n'en ay pas ung;
Eschoicte actens et d'homme ne suis hoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

De riens n'ay soing, si mectz toute m'atayne
D'acquerir biens et n'y suis pretendent;
Qui mieulx me dit, c'est cil qui plus m'actaine,
Et qui plus vray, lors plus me va bourdent;
Mon ami est qui me faict entendent
D'ung cigne blanc que c'est ung corbeau noir,
Et qui me nuyst, croy qu'i m'ayde a pourvoir;
Bourde, ver(i)té, aujourd'uy m'est tout ung;
Je retiens tout, riens ne sçay concepvoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

Prince clement, or vous plaise sçavoir
Que j'entens moult et n'ay sens ne sçavoir;
Parcïal suis, a toutes loys commun.
Que fais je plus ? Quoy ! les gaiges ravoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

Middle Age

Even though most of alchemical thought seems absurd in comparison to modern scientific thinking, it should not be forgotten that the Middle Ages greatly influenced present culture.
from The Mystica webpage

Middle Age

Even though most of alchemical thought seems absurd in comparison to modern scientific thinking, it should not be forgotten that the Middle Ages greatly influenced present culture.
from The Mystica webpage

bending the reality

Ukiyo-e by Sharaku. The 1794 print of Kabuki actor Otani Onji II in the role of Edobe, a servant.

bending the reality

Ukiyo-e by Sharaku. The 1794 print of Kabuki actor Otani Onji II in the role of Edobe, a servant.

will and representation

Schopenhauer, on the contrary is analytical. He does not create a sophisticated picture of the world. He only gives an answer to the question `what is the world': it is will and representation.
from Principia Cybernetica Web

will and representation

Schopenhauer, on the contrary is analytical. He does not create a sophisticated picture of the world. He only gives an answer to the question `what is the world': it is will and representation.
from Principia Cybernetica Web

vortex

a whirling mass of water forming a vacuum at it's center, into which anything caught in the motion is drawn
from Webster dictionary

vortex

a whirling mass of water forming a vacuum at it's center, into which anything caught in the motion is drawn
from Webster dictionary

impression

an effect produced, as on the mind or sense, by some force or influence
from Webster Dictionary

impression

an effect produced, as on the mind or sense, by some force or influence
from Webster Dictionary

it frightens precisely

But a monster is not just that, it is not just this himerical figure in some way that grafts one animal onto another, one living being onto another. A monster is always alive, let us not forget. Monsters are living beings. The monster is also that which appears for the first time and, consequently, is not yet recognized. A monster is a species for which we do not yet have a name, which does not mean that the species is abnormal, namely, the composition or hybridisation of already known species. Simply, it shows itself [elle se montre] - that is what the word monster means - it shows itself in something that is not yet shown and that therefore looks like a hallucination, it strikes the eye, it frightens precisely because no anticipation had prepared one to identify this figure.
from Derrida - Prepare yourself to experience the future and welcome the monster

it frightens precisely

But a monster is not just that, it is not just this himerical figure in some way that grafts one animal onto another, one living being onto another. A monster is always alive, let us not forget. Monsters are living beings. The monster is also that which appears for the first time and, consequently, is not yet recognized. A monster is a species for which we do not yet have a name, which does not mean that the species is abnormal, namely, the composition or hybridisation of already known species. Simply, it shows itself [elle se montre] - that is what the word monster means - it shows itself in something that is not yet shown and that therefore looks like a hallucination, it strikes the eye, it frightens precisely because no anticipation had prepared one to identify this figure.
from Derrida - Prepare yourself to experience the future and welcome the monster

Immersion

A special nonsingular map from one manifold to another such that at every point in the domain of the map, the derivative is an injective linear map.
from MathWorld

Immersion

A special nonsingular map from one manifold to another such that at every point in the domain of the map, the derivative is an injective linear map.
from MathWorld

a common speech

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. ...
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." ...
from Genesis, The Tower of Babel

a common speech

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. ...
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." ...
from Genesis, The Tower of Babel

Japanese "deconstruction"

"... I promised you some schematic and preliminary reflections on the word "deconstruction". What we discussed were prolegomena to a possible translation of this word into Japanese, one which would at least try to avoid, if possible, a negative determination of its significations or connotations."
from Derrida's 'Letter to a Japanese Friend'

Japanese "deconstruction"

"... I promised you some schematic and preliminary reflections on the word "deconstruction". What we discussed were prolegomena to a possible translation of this word into Japanese, one which would at least try to avoid, if possible, a negative determination of its significations or connotations."
from Derrida's 'Letter to a Japanese Friend'