Today I put ladders and art into the search and came first to V&A collections who in turn have a great image search engine.There are a number of images , sculptures, artifacts relating to ladders in the V&A collection. The first was a card in the shape of a ladder called the ladder of matrimony. […]
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http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1414_jain/snakesandladders/ The ladders represent good behaviour that allows people to move to a higher level. The snakes represent bad behaviour leading to descent to a lower level. Every square has a lesson for life.
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Excerpted from WITTGENSTEIN’S LADDER: POETIC LANGUAGE AND THE STRANGENESS OF THE ORDINARY, by Marjorie Perloff published by the University of Chicago Press. Copyright © 1996 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. “He who understands me,” says Wittgenstein on the final page of the Tractatus, “finally recognizes [my propositions] as senseless, when he has climbed out through
In this lecture “what is the creative Act?” my attention was alerted around 26:41. Deleuze talks about how as the words rise into the air what they are talking about drop into the ground. In french the word he uses through is not really how it is transalted. drop is closer to fall but
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A rather simplistic explantation of the jacob and angel story that has a few interesting tangents. Listen to the audio link on this link Source: Boole, M. E. (1909). Philosophy and Fun of Algebra.London, England:.