(to enlarge any of the pictures below, just click on them) 'When a man says he'll do something, he'll do it - there's no need to remind him every six months' -The Madonna of the Yarnwinder by Leonardo da Vinci It is almost exactly six months since a conversation on the Slow Bicycle Movement … Continue reading A Silken Seat
I remember once becoming absurdly excited in Princes St. Gardens in Edinburgh - that was just where I chanced to be, not the cause of the excitement - when I realised that an interesting thing happens if you number the dimensions in the reverse of the conventional order. My brother had once explained the concept … Continue reading Vanishing Point and the Golden Rule (by way of Immanuel Kant)
I mentioned elsewhere that there is a puzzle in our use of metaphor to expand our range of thought: if we think of the unknown in terms of the known concrete, as Vita Sackville-West has it, how does that get us anywhere new? I think I have the answer: it is by a process not … Continue reading The Shadow and the Stone: reflections on the mechanism of metaphor
I am a man of many bicycles: too many, some might say. Here are some: there's the c1924 Royal Sunbeam: On which I once rode from Inverness to Dunkeld in a day, a feat alluded to here (where I see I have dated it 1923), and its younger brother, the 1934 Royal Sunbeam: and of course … Continue reading My Bicycles
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