For several years from 2010, @JustKnecht was a Twitter project which brought Hesse’s idea to life in high/pop culture and science following the game model proposed by the author at the time which was based on musico-mathematical ideas of ratio and proportion.
At the time, each tweet was an individual Glass Bead Game move in the form of a ratio or proportion, a comparison (metaphor, simile or analogy) across different areas, and may have been either a statement or a question. In question form, these are not unlike analogy questions from SAT verbal reasoning tests with an additional dimension of general knowledge, cultural invention and intellectual playfulness. The basic challenge is to work out the relationship between two terms in one context, and apply it in another. Sometimes a tweet will extend an analogy further, which would be the beginning of forming a larger game from an individual move.
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Kekulé discovered the ring shape of the benzene molecule after having a reverie or day-dream of the ouroboros.
When two chemical substances react, both are altered. This is precisely what happens in the transference. C.G. Jung
Philemon : Jung :: Zarathustra : Nietzsche :: Virgil : Dante. Sonu Shamdasani's introduction to The Red Book by C. G. Jung
My love, do you ever dream of/ Candy coated raindrops? Candy Rain - Soul for Real
"Exploring the DNA of music" @whosampled
Baby this love I have (Minnie Riperton) : Check the Rhime (A Tribe called Quest) :: Candy Rain (Soul for Real) : Check Out Time (2Pac)
I V vi IV - The Four Chord Song - @axisofawesome https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ …
What Alcibiades and Charmides and Phaedrus were to him, Gyrinna and Atthis and Anactoria were to her. Maximus of Tyre, Orations
ό τι γάρ έκείνω 'Αλκιβιάδης καί Χαρμίδης καί Φαίδρος, τούτο τή Λεσβία Γυρίννα καί 'Ατθίς καί ´Ανακτορία. Maximus of Tyre, Orations
I am greener than grass, and it seems to me that I am little short of dying. Sappho 31
khlôrotera de poiâs/ emmi tethnâkên d’ oligô ‘pideuês/ phainom’ em’ autâi.
χλωροτέρα δὲ ποίας/ ἔμμι, τεθνάκην δ' ὀλίγω 'πιδεύης/ φαίνομ' ἔμ' αὔτᾳ. Sappho 31
“You’re a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr Bond.” SPECTRE
How to entangle, trammel up and snare/ Your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there/ Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose? Lamia - John Keats
Whenever two or more are compared together, the glass bead game will be there with you
Try to take a tiger from his daddy's side/ That's how love is gonna keep us tied/ I'm gonna stick like glue/ Because I'm stuck on you. Elvis
This is an encyclopedia/ I'm choosing to use it like a compass in times of peril. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KThyMAsEnZQ http://genius.com/Milo-an-encyclopedia-lyrics
We was OG like DOC, my TLC was OD, ID my facts, now POV of you and me, similar Iraq. http://genius.com/Taylor-swift-bad-blood-remix-lyrics https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo
Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun/ And baby when it's love if its not rough it isn't fun. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo …
The fruit of experience is beauty. Ugetsu Monogatari, Kenji Mizoguchi
tweeting is like a bird signal, casting irregular compositional tones, shaping variable space markers, on an occupied branch. @friedpudding
Samuel L. Jackson is to Quentin Tarantino what Johnny Depp is to Tim Burton. http://tmblr.co/Z6FD5n1w8rZVS
"The triple linkage - mind, breath, semen." "The yogini is edited out." An Archaeology of Yoga, Thomas McEvilley
Sexual yoga remained: Kāpālika had his Bhairavi, Tantrika Sakti, Natha Mahamudra, Vaisnava Manjari, Sahajia Uttarasadhika. Thomas McEvilley
She goes to a writer's cafe to write... it's like 'open bar' at the rehab clinic!
Tiden Flyver (Time Flies). Boom Clap Bachelors ft Liv Lykke (Original) by Liv Lykke #np on #SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/liv-lykke/tiden-flyver-2 …
If you let me be your skyline I'll let you be the wave/ That reduces me to rubble but looked safe from far away. The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive
The very thought of you makes my heart sing. My One And Only Love, written by Guy Wood / Robert Mellin, sung by Rickie Lee Jones
Professor Jung taught by a gesture, after the masters of Zen: a gesture of both hands, and in one he held a bottle of gin. Henry R. Zimmer
Dante is apprehensive as he approaches the entrance to Hell with Virgil: "I am not Aeneas, nor am I Paul."
Ass rolling in the dust in von Trier's The Element of Crime :: Horse rolling in the dust in Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev. @SightSoundmag
A blood cell is to a pea as an oil tanker is to the atmosphere #WeakGlassBeadGame
Prisoners' Dilemma is a Newcomb Problem. David Lewis, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Spring, 1979), pp. 235-240
Is it not time that in loving we endured as the arrow does the string to become something more than itself – Rilke, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mtjpNKMu0Xo …
Oh, I was never lost, I only chose to never go home. Monday by Matt Corby
April: Once you're a pickle you can't go back to being a cucumber. Alicia: I don't believe that. God transforms people. Hand of God, Ep 6
Sweden is to death metal what Norway is to black metal. http://www.westword.com/music/the-ten-best-norwegian-metal-bands-5674233 …
The struggle to free myself of restraints becomes my very shackles. Disenchantment from Catch 33 (2005) by Meshuggah
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard/ And they're like/ It's better than yours/ Damn right it's better than yours. Milkshake - Kelis
Giotto stands to Cézanne as Cézanne will stand to posterity. David Bomberg in London Overground by Iain Sinclair
Above us, the January sky: Scutum, Ophiuchus, Sagittarius, the planets of age and war and love westering. Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby
"employing Geiger counters as hand axes and electronic components as nose rings" @ursulakleguin on Roadside Picnic
Giant Zipper climbing up a skyscraper : King Kong :: Nimnul : Ann Darrow. Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, "Fake Me to Your Leader" #ShoutOut
Thomas van der Trave : Thomas Mann :: Fritz Tegularius : Friedrich Nietzsche. Glass Bead Game on the Glass Bead Game
The voice of your eyes is deeper than all the roses. e. e. cummings via Dedre Gentner
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
A Cinderella among Hindemith's sonatas: the Sonata for althorn (1943). Guy Rickards @GramophoneMag
If ya don’t take to it you get thrown off the lorry/ Dusty trail, rusty rockets won’t stop it. @sleafordmods @rustyrockets
"Mark Rutte is the Pinocchio of the Low Countries" Geert Wilders on the Greek bailout
I texted my husband to meet for lunch. He said he'd eaten. I explained that's not what I meant. Amanda Parrish @FT #flibanserin
The Comma of Pythagoras in music is analogous to the intercalary days in the lunisolar year
You laugh, he says, you think you're immune, go look at your own eyes they're two blue moons. The Last Time I Saw Richard - Joni Mitchell
carnivore : vegetarian :: militarist : pacifist. @hipbonegamer @rwhe
If you should fall/ Into my arms/ And tremble like a flower. Let's Dance - David Bowie
Matter reveals spirit (Swedenborg, Ruskin) :: if the rear bumper of the car in front is stoved in, beware a sudden stop.
hipbonegamer Retweeted Corey S. Powell black holes : new stars :: thunderstorms : rain @justknecht aka thunderstorms : black holes : : rain : new stars?
Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell Black holes stir up thunderstorms of hot gas that "rain" new stars: a galactic weather cycle. http://bit.ly/1IuZ8qR
But this is how it goes/ the end credits they roll/ this bridge was built over kerosene/ but we can watch it burn down. End Credits - Eden
I'll body that like a savage. Drama - Roy Woods ft. Drake
Murail's 'Le partage des eaux' does for oceans what Strauss's 'Alpine Symphony' does for mountains. Arnold Whittall in @GramophoneMag
17 running from innocence/ Like it's a lion. Girls Your Age - @Transvioletband
Je jure chaque jour a commencer une vie meilleur : Cavafy :: There's days when I'll say I'll be better and I'll change : @sweetmagnoliaD
@hipbonegamer Trade : Silk Road :: Human curiosity : The Nalanda Trail http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/aug/13/india-stormy-revival-nalanda-university/?pagination=false&printpage=true …
Janet Yellen is part Fanny Price and part Anne Elliot. @FT
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather. Pema Chödrön
@EddieRobson Our #lionesses go back to being professional footballers today, but the FA will always be a bunch of blundering bellends.
Mark To Market is a black box, and like smoking crack it's addictive. Andrew Fastow, ex-CFO Enron, via @humenm, @FT
I feel dislocated, that I'm standing here/ Send up a flare, the coast is clear! She Talks Too Much - BECOME X Elohim
Life is a lot like jazz, it's best when you improvise. George Gershwin, via Bradford Keeney
What we play is life. Louis Armstrong, via Bradford Keeney
Do more than turn lemons into lemonade: turn thunder into jam. Bradford Keeney
Harmony: two or more notes played together to produce a chord :: Glass Bead Game: two or more ideas played together to produce a chord
Bradford Keeney is the Marco Polo of psychology. @UtneReader
Silent sweetness in the sweet silence. (after Yeshayahu Shen's synaesthetic metaphors)
The MUSIC IS ARCHITECTURE metaphor is entailed by the TIME IS SPACE metaphor
MUSIC is ORATORICAL DISCOURSE. Gallus Dressler (1563), Joachim Burmeister (1606)
I wanna control you like voodoo... I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times), Jamie XX, feat. Young Thug
Stop, wait, make inventory, dig, recompute, and rise again to the encounter, like a debriefing by a party out on reconnoiter. John Peck
Thoughts for Wotan's day: swift Mercury never far from the sun, a coppiced hazel in the forest undergrowth
Thoughts for Diva's day: bright Jupiter outshining the stars, and the outline of an oak tree against a clear bright blue sky
Thought for willow day: the silver moon
Thought for birch day: the golden sun
Thoughts for Saturn's day: an alder thicket on the bank of the river of time, the slow, faint planet in the night sky
Thoughts for Friends' day: Venus shining for lovers, an ancient copper-green mirror, the apples of Eden, Paris of Troy, and Ailinn
Thoughts for Thunder's day: the visible redness of Mars to the naked eye, rusting iron, holly berries, beads of blood
I wanna hit that high ... Wake me up before you go-go, Wham!
HAPPY IS UP: Structural metaphor in music
Like Fidel Castro, Sepp Blatter possessed a kind of genius: not for running things, but for staying on the horse. @FinancialTimes
Witanhurst, with so many of its riches buried below the surface, is the architectural embodiment of an offshore account. @NewYorker
“London is to the billionaire as the jungles of Sumatra are to the orangutan,” Boris Johnson said. “We’re proud of that.” @NewYorker
Prynne is to modern poetry roughly what Karlheinz Stockhausen is to modern music. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/08/poems-jh-prynne-review …
Sterne's Tristram Shandy :: Haydn's Drumroll Symphony - 'wilful violation of generic convention' - Mark Evan Bonds. #Literature :: #Music
We dissect nature along lines laid down in our native tongues. Benjamin Lee Whorf - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam032/99032284.pdf …
Love was my mistake, and the go-between, a snowy day. Yuki no Hi (1893), Higuchi Ichiyō (trans. Robert Lyons Danly)
MORE IS UP. Lakoff and Johnson, 1999
ANGER IS HEAT, HAPPY IS UP. The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor, A perspective from Chinese - Ning Yu, University of Oklahoma
Stampeding herds : Serengeti :: Flocks of passenger pigeons : Midwest :: Herring spawning : Alaska. @Gastronomica http://www.gastronomica.org/thorniest-catch/ …
Riot and theft can interchange and are/ Convertible by fiddle and guitar. The Cook's Tale - Chaucer
The correlation between Brent and Bund yields is more than 90 per cent – a lucrative GBG move by David Hufton, PVM - @FinancialTimes:
Simon Cowell's new show is a self-contained light-entertainment ecosystem – The Glass Bead Game of synthetic pop. http://gu.com/p/49vvj/stw
Handing Ayelet Shaked the justice portfolio is like handing the fire and rescue services to a pyromaniac. Nachman Shai, MP - @FT
@ibogost Bolo ties are the quinoa of neckwear.
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations ... for the human emotions. Pound, Spirit of Romance
Bellow:Seize the Day :: Roth:The Ghost Writer :: Dickens:Our Mutual Friend :: Mailer:The Executioner’s Song :: Trollope:The Way We Live Now
Writers talking about time are like painters talking about unprimed canvas and pigments. @the_newyorker on Trollope
@ibogost Which begs the questions, what is the sweatpants typeface? Arial Black? Not sweatpants, Dockers. Times New Roman is totally normcore. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-27/the-best-and-worst-fonts-to-use-on-your-r-sum- …
The beauty that she brings, illumination/ Should have known better. Sufjan Stevens
Spread it like... Peanut Butter Jelly - @wearegalantis
Jumping like checkers, clever like chess is/ Smoking like purp is, perfect like Surf is, deeper than surface. Towkio feat. Chance the Rapper
Does Dolly Parton sleep on her back? #BustIdiom
Is J.H.Prynne wilfully obscure? The in shit bear a woods does! #BustedIdiom
@hipbonegamer All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field - Isaiah 40.6 also 1 Peter 1.24, Brahms, German Requiem.
Leaves of grass :: Truths of what is alive in man. Swedenborg, via Hallengren 1991
All things are symbols. We say of man that he is grass. Emerson, foreshadowing Whitman
Thought is to body as is its edge to a sword. Ezra Pound, Canto LIV
Kung is to China as is water to fishes. Ezra Pound, Canto LIV
Like a gale smiting an oak/ On mountainous terrain,/ Eros, with a stroke,/ Shattered my brain.
Sappho, via Carol Ann Duffy
miso particle clouds : dashi broth :: thunderhead clouds : summer sky. @Harold_McGee on Food & Cooking
Ethicist For Hire@ethicistforhire · Mar 21: Ancient philosophers live in Owl's House. Contemporary philosophers live in Eeyore's Gloomy Place...
The New Zealand kakapo parrot breeds only in years when the fruits needed for rearing chicks are superabundant. Simpson and Raubenheimer
Things can move so fast. Up like a rocket. Down like
bocharger. ILD quoted in @ftweekend, #varoufakefake
Baby, don't you see?/ I'm not on drugs, I'm not on drugs/ I'm just in love/ You're high enough for me. Not on Drugs, #ToveLo, The Knocks Remix
The venator poeta cannot escape that tangled brake. from Preface to David Jones' Anathemata
Real universals cut nature at its joints. Plato, Phaedrus 265d-266a
DC Gomez@AllThingsHLS · Mar 14: Just saw a bald eagle chased off by about 1000 crows when he tried to invade a crow nest. There's a metaphor for America somewhere in there
Sviatoslav Richter was the Grateful Dead of classical pianists. @Jeddistler in @GramophoneMag
The Blackpool and Llandudno piers are the jewels in the crown of the UK's coastline. St John Stott, Cuerdon Leisure
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky. Tagore, via @jessica_fries
The contour of Armenian folk song parallels their decorative arts of illuminated manuscripts, miniatures and rugs. Sirvart Poladian (1942)
The bells of her anklets are distant/ like the sound of china from/ teashops being lit up with lanterns. Half-Inch Himalayas, Agha Shahid Ali
Erigena :: Confucius, The Vision of Light in Ezra Pound's The Unwobbling Pivot, Mary P. Cheadle, Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 35, No. 20
Lux enim per se omnem in partem,/ Reason from heaven, saith Tcheou Tun-y,/ Enlighteneth all things/ Seipsum seipsum diffundit, risplende. Ezra Pound, Cantos, LV/298
three solemn half notes
their white downy chests black-rimmed
on the middle wire
Ezra Pound, Cantos, LXXXII
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d
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write the birds in their treble scale
Ezra Pound, Cantos, LXXXII
But, Officer Pupp, I give you my word as a 'mouse' - I'm as free of evil intent as a glass eye at a keyhole. Krazy Kat, October 29th, 1933
Her heart split and shook at the sight of a boy/ the way light in a bowl of water splits and shakes on a garden wall. Written on Skin - Crimp
Lips kissed don't lose their charm, but enter a new phase like the moon. Boccaccio via Verdi
Bocca baciata non perda ventura, anzi rinnova come fa la luna. Boccaccio via Verdi
It doesn't matter if a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice.
Ip Man's 'horizontal/vertical' comment is the martial-arts equivalent of Deng Xiaoping's revision of communist ideology.
In Africa we dreamed of coming to Europe; now we are in Europe, what is the dream? Quimeras, Paco Peña, @ROH_Muscat
you make me wanna tap out every time. #usher #wrestling #doubleentendre #honkadori
Occipital lobes are to ______ as temporal lobes are to ______ as parietal lobes are to ______.
Carpals are to ______, as tarsals are to ______.
Alphabet is to letters as ______ is to numbers
Goose is to Geese as Moose is to ______
The game "15" is isomorphic to tic tac toe
Valid Reasoning by Analogy, Julian S. Weitzenfeld, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 51, No. 1
Newton did not shew the cause of the apple falling, but he shewed a similitude between the apple and the stars. D'Arcy Thompson
say : mean :: mean : say, #epic :: #lyric, Gordon Braden, Herrick's Classical Quotations,1978,
Quotations in Robert Herrick and Hsin Ch'i-chi embody the nature of print in their respective times. Points of Comparison, Stuart H. Sargent
String of beads, if you must break, break: if you last longer, my endurance is sure to weaken. Sato's translation of Princess Shikishi
Moonrays slanting past eaves spill onto my brocade sleeves/ where the plum’s fragrance rests/ and compete there for a place. Teika
A spring night/ the floating bridge of dreams/ comes to an end/ parting from the peak/ a sky of cloud banks. Teika, on finishing Tale of Genji
Surely there is someone who is to you as I was to her? The Tale of Genji, trans. Seidensticker
Billy Joel is the Andrew Wyeth of contemporary rock music - Ron Rosenbaum
Lehigh's Henri Barkey - "Kobani : Syrian and Turkish Kurds :: Halabja : Iraqi Kurds" @hipbonegamer #RallyingCry
You're Dead! is FlyLo's Bitches Brew, @theneedledrop @flyinglotus #milesdavis
Israel's Iron Dome : protecting its civilians :: Hamas' civilians : protecting its rockets. IDF rhetoric, War-talk, @questingvole @ftweekend
When there is food in the house, what matter if a guest arrives? When there is faith, what is death? Pashto proverb
Eduard Mörike : Hugo Wolf :: Heinrich Heine : Robert Schumann :: Friedrich Rückert : Gustav Mahler. Richard Wigmore, @GramophoneMag
Tahei and Matashichi : The Hidden Fortress :: R2D2 and C3PO : Star Wars. @GeorgeLucasILM interviewed for @BFI #Kurosawa Samurai Collection
The Seven Samurai : The Magnificent Seven :: The Hidden Fortress : Star Wars. #Kurosawa :: #Hollywood
As fallen flowers drift and waters run their way,/ Our longing overflows. Li Qingzhao (1084-1151?)
Like northbound swan and southward-flying swallow fleet,/ By chance we meet;/ Sadly we greet. Qin Guan (1049-1100)
Carter looks like Churchill in comparison to Obama. Garry Kasparov, @FinancialTimes, @hipbonegamer
There's always a Justin Bieber. You know that. David Cronenberg on #MapsToTheStars, @SightSoundmag
we love one another like poppy and memory. Paul Celan
Autumn Day : Rainer Maria Rilke :: Corona : Paul Celan. Paul Celan, by John Felstiner, p.53-54
we slumber like wine inside the seashells/ like the sea in the moon's blood beam. Paul Celan
"If we fight in the ocean we lose. If we fight in the river we win." #JackMa #AlibabaIPO @FinancialTimes
#eBay : shark in the ocean :: #JackMa : crocodile in the Yangtze. #AlibabaIPO @FinancialTimes
No one knows Brasília [VW sedan] better than me. The dents, the rot: it somehow functions. I want to make it better. #tiririca @ftweekend
Mono no aware : The Tale of Genji :: Lacrimae rerum : The Aeneid. Ivan Morris, The World of the Shining Prince, #Japan :: #Rome, #Literature
Ron Hale-Evans@rwhe · 7 Oct 2013: There are several. One of them is Citizen Kane. @objectsobjects What's the Citizen Kane of attainments?
In China, they say a chef's stocks are like the voice of an opera singer: the means to express his art. Fuschia Dunlop,@ftweekend
Make of these laments a thread to join us,/ and add my tears as beads to string upon it. Kokin Rokujô, zoku Kokka taikan, 33326
Of hamlets where fishermen dwell I know but little./ Must you insist that I be your guide to the seashore? Kokinshu, 727
Come, young buds - a smile is what we need/ to tell us that, taken in hand, you would be more fragrant. The Tale of Genji #DoubleEntendre
after @janmpdx: Maybe this sad state of affairs is like a game: at some point the game's over and we're back at 0, and we can start again
Vuk Ćosić : net.art :: Marcel Duchamp : conceptual art
Emperor Basil : Putin :: Eustathios : Mikhail Khodorkovsky :: Bessarion of Nicea : Boris Berezovsky. Shevkunov, The Destruction of an Empire
David Abelevich Kaufman (aka Dziga Vertov) is documentary's Jumpin' Jack Flash. Brian Winston, @SightSoundmag, #BestDocsEver
Watching the Eclipse, David Remnick @NewYorker, #Putin, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/11/watching-eclipse …
"This is good Ross, I didn't know you could cook"/ "You got to try my celery rémoulade" Swinging Cheerleaders, Hill, 1974, #DoubleEntendre
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we strum out tunes to make a bear dance, when we would move the stars to pity. Flaubert
The Hangover : Hollywood :: Lost in Thailand : China. @PhilBoxoffice, in @ftweekend, @markcousinsfilm #film #cinema
Hollywood now finds itself in the role of global jukebox, with other countries piling in the quarters. in @ftweekend,
Intolerance : Hollywood :: Cabiria : Europe. Hollywood Transformed, in @ftweekend
Hollywood is a "celluloid Athens" transmitting American values to a world unaware - Walter Wanger, 1950. in @ftweekend
Brunelleschi's Dome :: Dufay's Motet Nuper Rosarum Flores. Charles W. Warren, The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 59, (1973), #architecture #music
Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc : #Architecture :: Georges Cuvier : #Anatomy. Gavin Stamp, Architectural History, Vol. 46, (2003)
Hsiao-kang : real estate for the dead :: May Lin : real estate for the living. Vive L'Amour, Tsai Ming-liang, @markcousinsfilm #realestate
Im Kwon-taek : South Korea :: Kurosawa : Japan. @markcousinsfilm
Joko Widodo : Indonesia :: Barack Obama : US. #jokowi @FT, http://on.ft.com/1ixPY5O
A piecrust promise: easily made, easily broken. #MaryPoppins
When Mary holds your hand, you feel so grand/ Your heart starts beatin' like a big brass band. #Marijuana #MaryPoppins #DoubleEntendre
When the day is gray and ordinary/ Mary makes the sun shine bright. #Marijuana #MaryPoppins #DoubleEntendre
It's a jolly holiday with Mary. Mary Poppins, 1964, #Marijuana #DoubleEntendre
Theme : Variation on recapitulation in Haydn, Hob.XVI No.50 (I) :: Theme : Variation on recapitulation in Schubert, D. 568 (I)
Not playing the repeats in a sonata is like shortening a cruciform nave by half to make way for more car parking outside
Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending : Flos Campi :: Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe : La Valse. Philip Clark @GramophoneMag
Oh, babe you're so inconsequential/ Everybody heard enough about your big potential. Small Talk - #ScrittiPolitti, #DoubleEntendre
Damoitas began to flute, and Daphnis,/ the cowherd to pipe, and soon/ the calves were skipping in the soft grass. Theokritos #DoubleEntendre
Ibn al-Mu'tazz's flautist : #FloRida's whistle blower :: white hints in black hair : #Usher's rained-off parade. #ArabicPoetry :: #PopLyrics
Dawn clambers out/ From under dark:/ White hints in a skein of black hair. عبد الله بن المعتز, ibn al-Mu'tazz, #DoubleEntendre
She plays the flute, her face shines white,/ With roving looks that plead and lure. عبد الله بن المعتز, ibn al-Mu'tazz, #DoubleEntendre
Sweet basil is bound to be plucked. ابو نواس, Abu Nuwas, #DoubleEntendre
Richie: "Madame Swish, three-thirty." Oh! Eddie! You haven't? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Double+Entendre #ReverseDoubleEntendre #RickMayall
She shot you a look as the long-confined/ in hope looks up at the visitor's face. Al Nabigha, النابغة الذبياني
Cruel and sudden, hast thou since/ Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence? http://voices.yahoo.com/an-analysis-poet-john-donnes-incredibly-sexual-1294947.html, #DoubleEntendre
Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street. #TaylorSwift - #Red
Cadillac, Cadillac, pop that trunk. #JasonDerülo - #Wiggle, #DoubleEntendre
Whistle baby, whistle baby,/ Show me soprano. #FloRida - #Whistle, #DoubleEntendre
I am a fire, you're gasoline,/ Come pour yourself all over me. #Zedd - #StayTheNight, #DoubleEntendre
I'ma rain on this parade/ Oh baby. #Usher - #GoodKisser, #DoubleEntendre
I know you like it sweet/ So you can have your cake/ Give you something good to celebrate. #KatyPerry - #Birthday, #DoubleEntendre
Is it weird that your ass/ Remind me of a Kanye West song?/ Is it weird that your bra/ Remind me of a Katy Perry song? #JasonDerulo
An American Tail : Starting from Scratch :: Rock-a-Doodle : Flea for your Life. #GoodMovies :: #TinyToon
Figlio, o figlio : Ottone, Handel (1723) :: Flio, my Flio : Starting from Scratch (TinyToons), Boyer (1990). #HighCulture :: #LowCulture
"Symmetry : implosion = beauty : human face" in Nuclear Technoaesthetics http://ceas.iscte.pt/ethnografeast/Joseph%20Masco/%20Technoaesthetics.pdf … Am. Ethnologist v 31 #3
Bird-Brains : Evol :: who kill : Sister. #Tune-Yards :: #SonicYouth. #FrontierPsychiatrist
Miyazaki - animation's own William Morris. Nick Bradshaw on #TheWindRises in @SightSoundmag, #Cinema :: #ArtsAndCrafts
Smeraldina : Ninetta :: Mmmm : Brrrr. L'amour des trois oranges, Prokofiev, #Opera :: #Life
The Little Mermaid : Prince Eric :: H.C. Andersen : Edvard Collin. #TwTy @DonaldHaase, #Disney :: #Life
"Yesterday Dr. Will Caster Was Only Human" :: "And the Day Before Johnny Depp was an Actor" http://www.rottentomatoes.com, #AI :: #BadMovies
Mrs Ghandi : Durga :: Mr Modi: Shiva. “Har, Har Modi" http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/96b8ca94-bed0-11e3-a1bf-00144feabdc0.html, #politics : #religion :: #bjp : #hinduism
Cube of volume 2 : Length of its side :: Octave : Major third (in 12-TET) via Hippocrates of Chios, #Geometry :: #Music
Duplication of the cube :: Dividing the octave into three equal parts. Hippocrates of Chios, #Geometry :: #Music
There is no Bodhi tree/ Nor a bright mirror's stand/ Since all is void/ where can the dust alight? Dajian Huineng, 大鑒惠能
The body is a bodhi tree/ The mind a bright mirror's stand/ At all times we must polish it/ and must not let dust collect. Yuquan Shenxiu, 玉泉神秀
Lobatchewksky is the Copernicus of geometry. William Clifford, via Men of Mathematics (vol. 2), E.T. Bell, #Geometry :: #Astronomy
"The circumambulation of the Ka-ba (cube) at Mecca is related to squaring the circle" Sacred Geometry, Robert Lawlor, #Islam :: #Geometry
harp ripples. from Pierre Guerre, René Char, cited in Eric Mottram, Estuaries
tidal mouths where tides meet currents/ liquid boils up - aestus and aestuarium/ heat and tidal. Eric Mottram, Estuary
Matsuev : Gergiev :: Federer : Nadal. Jeremy Nicholas on a new recording of Tchaikovsky's piano concertos, #Music :: #Tennis
Hearing Matsuev and Gergiev is the aural equivalent of watching Federer and Nadal trying to outdo the other. Jeremy Nicholas, Gramophone
The New York Times recently named Conrad Brooks the "Gielgud of bad movies" Endnotes to Ed Wood, Tim Burton, 1994, #GoodMovies : #BadMovies
For me, you are the most precious doe,/ You are a golden star shining in the night. Rusalka, Dvořák
Tys nejvzácnější moje laň,/ tys hvězdička zlatá v noc temnou. Rusalka, Dvořák
remuse@museical · 8 Feb 2014 (from the novel Strange Bodies) "The juggernaut of my intellectual vanity stops slowly." http://amzn.com/k/nGmIEzBnTzSnvgr9NIk6Ew … I’ve never been good
WaiChia Feng@waichia · 3 Jan 2012, "L'amour aussi bien que le feu ne peut subsister sans un mouvement continuel; et il cesse de vivre dès qu'il cesse d'espérer ou de craindre"
WaiChia Feng@waichia · 15 Jan 2012, "Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air." Friedrich von Schiller
Reality may be more like a river, our understandings more like canals. http://zenpundit.com/?p=33454 , @hipbonegamer
In vain the spring night's darkness accosts the plum,/ Destroying the colour but not the scent of its blossoms. Kokinshu 400 retweets1 favorite
"In vain the spring night's darkness," she whispered, catching the scent he'd left behind. New Herbs, The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
Rumours have flown and spread. I may no more/ Entice them back than I might a flock of birds. Kokinshu
No change in the white of the waterfowl,/ Nor the green in the clover leaves. Inspired by New Herbs, The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
I detect a change in the green upon the hills. Is autumn coming to them? Is it coming to me? New Herbs, The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
And I love you baby like a schoolboy loves his bag/ And I love you baby river deep mountain high. Ike and Tina Turner
I love you baby like a flower loves the spring/ And I love you baby like a robin loves to sing.
I was born by the river/ in a little tent/ Oh and just like the river/ I've been running ever since. Sam Cooke, A Change is Gonna Come
hipbonegamer@hipbonegamer · 23 Mar 2014, "Qawwali is the South Asian Muslim equivalent of African-American Gospel music" @jricole at http://www.juancole.com/2014/03/pakistani-qalandar-nusrat.html … >
The periodic table of sewing elements: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SlIySrOsqA4/Te7IqFh8I8I/AAAAAAAADcQ/1yY_K_3OrqQ/s1600/periodictableletter.jpg …
Last year's/ fragile, vanished snow/ is falling now again -/ if only seeing you/ could be like this. Izumi Shikibu, trans. Hirschfield
If only his horse/ had been tamed/ by my hand - / I'd have taught it/ not to follow anyone else! Izumi Shikibu, trans. Hirschfield
I cannot say/ which is which:/ the glowing/ plum blossom IS/ the spring night's moon. Izumi Shikibu, trans. Hirschfield
Like a ripple/ that chases the slightest caress/ of the breeze -/ is that how you want me/ to follow you? Ono no Kamachi, trans. Hirschfield
I am a warrior. What I do can never be woman's work. Massai, Apache (1954)
फेडसिंह@fadesingh · 8 Feb 2014, "Where is Sisyphus now? Using the analog sticks on the game controller, you move a little character who rolls a ball called a Katamari."
Even a hawk is an eagle among crows... Apache (1954)
Les Dawson wanted to do for standup what Charles Lamb did for the essay. Stewart Lee - On not writing, http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IrXVaytvJtQ …
The prosecutor has brought a deer into court and called it a horse. Zhang Qingfang, @ftweekend
Liu Xiaobo is China's Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. @ftweekend
刘晓波 : Лю Сяобо :: 亚历山大·索尔仁尼琴 :: Алекса́ндр Солжени́цын
Zheng Sixiao became isolated and rootless, like the orchids he painted. Masterpieces Of Chinese Painting 700-1900, @V_and_A
My treasure map was on your skin. Mermaid, by Train
hipbonegamer@hipbonegamer · 28 Dec 2013, @carlacasilli "Shift the window" is the economic equivalent of "There is no spoon." http://www.mackinac.org/7504 /cc @jknight
Malaise and ennui are to France as can-do is to America: a badge of honour. Roger Cohen, New York Times
You seem more distant than the distant boat/ More distant yet as it rows out from Kumano. Ise, Shinkokinshu
Had not these envoys come from Genji, the ceremonies would have been like brocades worn in the night. from Channel Buoys, The Tale of Genji
Is Moncler the new Burberry? @FT
Michael McIntyre is the Phil Collins of comedy. Steve Coogan, @ftweekend
LADHumour@LadHumour · 5 Nov 2013, I wonder if in Africa they have 'Lynx England' that smells of cigarettes and disappointment.
The brightest lights cast the biggest shadows, Alela Diane, About Farewell
Batman : Ace :: Superman : Krypto
फेडसिंह@fadesingh21 Nov - Its like Powai has become the Bangalore of Bombay.
WaiChia Feng@waichia25 Dec 11 - "L'absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies, et allume le feu." F. Rochefoucauld
The sun crosses the sky. The gnomon's shadow sweeps the sundial's face. The second, minute and hour hands go round. Marwan Shwaiki
Ah, you men! You men, John! Your passion is not equal to ours. We are like a plant I read of: we bear but one flower. Barry Lyndon, Kubrick
The tender passion gushes instinctively out of a man's heart. He loves as a bird sings, or a rose blows: from nature. Barry Lyndon, Kubrick
hipbonegamer@hipbonegamer11 Nov An opponent who doesn’t heed political incentives is like a militant who doesn’t fear death.[equivalence] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115509/elizabeth-warren-hillary-clintons-nightmare …
chen wen hsi : jia haoyi :: c'mon, help me out here...
Korean classical music is the aural equivalent of the peninsula's rugged, mountainous terrain. Sue Leigh Waugh, on Amazon
My heart is like a ship upon the seas. I am easily moved. Scolding will not improve me. Kokinshu 508, via The Tale of Genji
The lower the culling rate the lower the net replacement cost per cow in the herd. http://www.dairyco.org.uk/non_umbraco/download.aspx?media=1345 …
Some rather limited and silly Westerners have called Sa Dingding an "Asian Björk"... Steven Guy, Croydon, Australia
The polka dots of flamenco dresses are related to the round mirrors of skirts in India. Dr. Debra Jan Bibel
Shawn Jay-Z Carter@Jayz_Quotes31 Jul - "Relationships are a lot like algebra...ever looked at your X and wondered Y?"
Christopher Grainger@USM_Auriga29 Oct - it was harder than getting a high D out of a bassoon!
Louise Byrne@LouiseMByrne28 Oct - Love this:"Referee...was certainly a notable figure, blowing his whistle more than a veteran raver in a warehouse". G Cummisky @irishtimes
The Velvet Underground are rock's equivalent of Van Gogh's paintings - @Ludohunter http://on.ft.com/1clnbOe
Charles Baudelaire : 1850s Paris :: Lou Reed : 1970s New York - @ludohunter http://on.ft.com/1clnbOe
"They built a bottle rocket that went into space" @ftweekend on Twitter's @ev, @biz and @jack on the eve of their IPO launch
math prof@mathematicsprof8 Oct - 10 Amazing Examples of Architecture Inspired by Mathematics http://goo.gl/QApkcr
Elif Batuman@BananaKarenina30 Jun 12 - Cotton Mathers: combining the vitriolic lyricism of Marshall Mathers with the Puritan theology of Cotton Mather.
@hipbonegamer: 2/2 "the burning of the mosque must bear frightening connotations" http://wwrn.org/articles/40967/ powerful analogy, deeply felt
Drops of milk fell from Lalo's bread, and drops of blood from Bhago's sweets... Guru Nanak, http://www.amarchitrakatha.com
Flowing waters, the years gliding by, scattering blossoms - which of them will listen if someone asks them to wait? - Tales of Ise, 50
Omar Allibhoy - the Antonio Banderas of cooking - @GordonRamsay
Like random patterns/ on this robe dyed with young purple/ from Kasuga Plain,/ utterly confused is the heart/ of one secretly in love. Ise, 1
"The frequently-made-comparisons monster has the intelligence of a two year old child." http://xkcd.com/1257/
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is Japan's Lady Gaga
Careless stork costs lives. Timethatthetalewere http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/03/syria-five-middle-east-stories-missed?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 …
The slow movement has the air of walking down a colonnade, observing the past. Geoffrey Norris, Gramophone Magazine
Is Brahms' fourth a musical manifestation of his bittersweet resentment that he had not achieved personal happiness with Clara Schumann?
Confidence leaves on horseback, but returns on foot - A speaker at the Ambrosetti Forum, Financial Times
hipbonegamer@hipbonegamer27 Aug - garlic : mustard gas :: bitter almonds : cyanide :: fresh hay or grass : phosgene per @ksheridanAFP https://twitter.com/ksheridanAFP/status/372344542642446336 … …
I like women the way I like coffee: detrimental to hippocampal neurogenesis, conducive to short term memory and attentional control - S Kaas
Orchid! Jellyfish! - Sodom and Gomorrah, Marcel Proust
Aadland's [version of Grieg's] Romance becomes a kind of Norwegian Enigma Variations avant la letter - Gramophone Magazine
"Politicians are like diapers. They should be changed often and for the same reason." Man of the Year, Robin Williams
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. Washington Post, via http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Metaphorgotten …
'You don't poop where you eat. You don't mail your poop to Bloemfontein either, Brad.' Kill Time Or Die Trying
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas/ The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor - The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes
Metaphor is a train, taking you from A to B at high speed, maybe derailing, and serving overpriced sandwiches. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Metaphorgotten …
Empty truth is a medicine without a sickness. - Kazoo Dreamboats, J.H. Prynne
Cremation pyre : heavens met the earth :: distant mountain : summer moon :: space between the tallest stones - Kazoo Dreamboats, J.H. Prynne
Love was primary and not pegged to the dollar - The Odes to TL61P, Keston Sutherland
The gods are immediately perceptible to one another, like as quickly to like, and so too had M. de Charlus been to Jupien. - Proust
WaiChia Feng@waichia14 Aug - To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering abt in a great library without touching the books.
As an antitoxin protects against disease, as the thyroid regulates adiposity, as defeat punishes pride... - Sodom and Gomorrah, Marcel Proust
The disproportion of Trafalgar to Tahrir would be no disincentive to solidarity - The Odes to TL61P, Keston Sutherland
Real passion really does make disproportionate analogies powerful - The Odes to TL61P, Keston Sutherland
Having a sweet tooth's almost as bad as having a whisky tongue or liking a lady - Walter Brennan in Howard Hawks' Red River
What's common between Lady Gaga and the Statue of Liberty that's meaningful to American culture? - John R Wallace, Japanese 7A, UC Berkeley
Der alte Sturm,/ die alte Müh'!/ Doch stand muss ich hier halten!
Du bist der Lenz,/ nach dem ich verlangte/ in frostigen Winters Frist. - Die Walküre
Sirens: barmaids :: Isle: bar - http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/notes/schema11.html …
WaiChia Feng@waichia30 Jun “The decisions of our past are the architects of our present” Dan Brown, Inferno
Rome, Open City is to Italian neorealism what Breathless is to the French new-wave or Nosferatu is to German expressionism - Amazon reviewer
A democratic coup is as paradoxical as the living dead - Recep Tayyip Erdogan on recent developments in Egypt
This [Snowden/Assange affair] is just the same as shaving a piglet: too much noise and too little hair - Vladimir Putin
Kullervo is the Kalevala's Siegfried - @GramophoneMag
"I Wanna Be Yours is to modern weddings what Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life by Eric Idle is to humanist funerals" - @official_jcc
A pool shines,/ Like a bracelet/ Shaken in a dance. - Six significant landscapes, by Wallace Stevens
My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires - Araby, from Dubliners, by James Joyce
La politique dans une œuvre littéraire, c’est un coup de pistolet au milieu d’un concert - Stendhal, La chartreuse de Parme
Donc, quels que soient les obstacles, l'amant et le prisonnier doivent réussir. - Stendhal, La chartreuse de Parme
Le prisonnier songe plus souvent à se sauver, que le geôlier à fermer sa porte
L'amant songe plus souvent à arriver à sa maîtresse que le mari à garder sa femme
La sévérité de Clélia semblait diminuer à mesure qu'augmentaient les difficultés matérielles qui s'opposaient à toute correspondance
A materialist civilisation which subsists on the 'interest' yielded by the cultural assets of former times - Companion to The Cantos, Terrell
I thought I'd die. But it passes soon,/ Like shadows of clouds on the sea. - Madame Butterfly, Verdi
Ho creduto morir. Ma passa presto/ Come passan le nuvole sul mare... - Madama Butterfly, Verdi
A garland/ Of fresh flowers. A star/ With golden rays./ And for nothing: one hundred/ Yen! - Madame Butterfly, Verdi
Una ghirlanda/ Di fiori freschi. Una stella/ Dai raggi d'oro./ E per nulla: sol cento/ Yen. - Madama Butterfly, Verdi
Brass, timps and strings are coarse-grained - the aural equivalent of hessian - Rob Cowan on Mendelssohn's 2nd Symphony, @GramophoneMag
Reference my earlier quote of Robert Bauval, I beg to differ: precession is the carbon dating of the planet, not its DNA
"I'm interested in the way in which history rhymes more than the way in which it unfolds" - http://zenpundit.com/?p=3818 @hipbonegamer
Monumentation on the Martian surface depicting Orion is evidence of an Egypt, Mars, Orion connection - http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tword11t.htm …
‘the conceptualization of the land’ corresponds to ‘that of the sky’ - Jane B. Sellers
Shepseskare : Raneferef :: Shakespere : ?
North/South : Star oriented :: East/West : Solar oriented - http://www.hallofmaat.com/modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=10 …
If God gave us a neck, it was for sticking out - Arthur Koestler
Erik Davis@erik_davis20 Apr - De Castro: "Blood is to humans as manioc beer is to jaguars in exactly the same way as a sister to me is a wife to my brother-in-law."
The Bible is the Wisden of religion - @FTLiveTweets
WaiChia Feng@waichia26 Mar - "The world is your oyster": Oyster Card,London :: "四通八達": Octopus Card,Hong Kong @justknecht
Alongside all swindlers the state now stands as swindler-in-chief : Jacob Burckhardt :: for modern comparisons see @hipbonegamer
Joseph Knecht : Descartes, Pascal, and Froberger :: @hipbonegamer : Jacob Burkhardt - https://sites.google.com/site/abimepublications/home/maths-and-music …
Obama in Israel, Palmerston in London @hipbonegamer http://zenpundit.com/?p=20125
Don’t the waves pull the sand/ Don’t the moon pull the tide baby/ I'm Yours - Use me - Miguel
China takes from us primary goods, and sells us manufactured ones. This was also the essence of colonialism. - Lamido Sanusi
El que sirve una revolución ara en el mar - Simón Bolívar
If architecture is frozen music, the arithmetic of whole numbers is the cooling agent
Eleanor Mannikka : Kate Spence :: Angkor Wat : pyramids on Giza plateau - Atlantis Born Again on Graham Hancock, BBC Horizon
"It doesn't suddenly become a farmer's boot. There's still the buckle on the pump." - Hough on Saint-Saëns 2nd Piano Concerto, Gramophone
Shichen/Shen : Ebo/Xin :: Orion : Scorpius - Chinese and Greek myth - www.ianridpath.com/startales/orion2.htm
Bethlehem : Sirius :: Caspar, Melchior, Balthasar : Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka.
Precession is the DNA of our planet - Robert Bauval
Location of the three pyramids of Giza on the ground : Nile :: Location of the three stars in the belt of Orion : Milky Way - Robert Bauval
That's just the way you use the knife and the chopping board, there's no connection between pickles and jealousy - Yasujirō Ozu 小津 安二郎
At times, a canon in music and dance - Stravinsky and Balanchine's Agon by Suzanne Farrell Ballet in Muscat
Perfect technicolor symmetry in motion, like a kaleidoscope - Balanchine's Danses Concertantes by Suzanne Farrell Ballet in Muscat
Igor Stravinsky : George Balanchine :: Harry Warren : Busby Berkeley
Suzanne Farrell’s students learned to "turn up the technicolor in movement" - Emily Fragos, BOMB Magazine
People will always say 'I love you' or 'I want to kill you; how they say it, it's fashion - Baz Luhrmann via Mark Cousins
Fellini : circus :: Bresson: prison :: Bergman : theatre :: Tati : jigsaw - Mark Cousins
1950's: non-Western world decolonised, got confidence; Western world had sex and power on its mind - you could see this in their movies (MC)
Access, then repress: acting as a pressure cooker - The Actor's Studio via Mark Cousins
Mehboob Khan's Mother India was that country's Gone with the Wind - Mark Cousins
Guru Dutt is India's Orson Welles - Mark Cousins
WaiChia Feng@waichia5 Feb “Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates. (1665, No. 77.)” Rochefoucauld.
Close up : High shot :: Cymbals : Tremolo - Hitchcock via Mark Cousins
A high shot is a tremolo - Hitchcock via Mark Cousins
Close-ups are crashes of cymbals: dramatic punctuation in the story - Hitchcock via Mark Cousins
You can't blame a storm on the barometer - Marcel Carné via Mark Cousins
Ruan Lingyu, often called the Chinese Greta Garbo - via Mark Cousins
The pram teeters - her body pushes it - it becomes like the cherry stone - it falls through the killing field - Mark Cousins on Eisenstein
Steps are like the world tilted forward to form a stage - Eisenstein via Mark Cousins
There is film before and after Abel Gance's La Rue, just as there is painting before and after Picasso - Jean Cocteau via Mark Cousins
Chaplin is the Dickens of film - Mark Cousins
If you join a football club, you can't say you want to play rugby - Laurent Fabius
The media will absolutely not become a 'special political zone' like Deng's 'special economic zones' - the Global Times
Bosphorus: Liffey/ European bank: Viceroy/ Asiatic bank: Conmee/ Symplegades [Wandering Rocks]: Groups of citizens - http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/notes/schema10.html …
“Art thou there, truepenny?” - Shakespeare's Hamlet via Joyce's Ulysses
Religion: about as welcome in modern times as a juvenile delinquent in a movie theatre with a laser pointer?
Religion: about as useful in modern times as a weak pencil torch in broad daylight?
Rock: Aristotle, Dogma, Stratford/ Whirlpool: Plato, Mysticism, London/ Ulysses: Socrates, Jesus, Shakespeare - http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/notes/schema09.html …
E-lebrities: the country music stars of Twitter, who get closer to fans than Bon Jovi ever would – or need to @ideafaktory
Like the japonisme-obsessed French of the 19th century, the British have become infatuated with all things Danish - The New Yorker
A preface without any book,/ A trumpet uplipped, but no call;/ That seems it now. - A Two-Years' Idyll - Thomas Hardy
Eduard Mörike : Hugo Wolf :: Heinrich Heine : Franz Schumann :: Friedrich Rückert : Gustav Mahler - Richard Wigmore, The Gramophone
O moon, how your radiance/ merges with the waves!/ It is like the loving embrace/ of two virginal hearts!
Come s'unisce, o luna,/ all'onda il tuo chiaror!/ Amante amplesso pare/ di due verginei cor! - Simon Boccanegra, Verdi
The Weeknd : Michael Jackson :: Frank Ocean : Marvin Gaye
"Any resemblence of Eric Debrosse to Mr Strauss-Kahn is pure coincidence" - Suite 2806, a play by Guillaume Landrot, théâtre Daunou, Paris
#Morsilini
"Any resemblance between Hynkel the dictator and the Jewish barber is purely coincidental.” Chaplin, The Great Dictator
It's like trying to improvise on Coltrane changes over straight-up Dixieland... it's out of time and out of place, neither clever nor good
Mary Whitehouse: a little Canute, exhorting the waves of moral turpitude to retreat - @FTLiveTweets
Just like the Grinch stole Christmas, Sandy stole Halloween - @FTLiveTweets
Strength and sweetness: Omani silver gentleman's eyeliner modelled on a 303 blackpowder Enfield bullet - http://bit.ly/SYYSrs @hipbonegamer
Arne Nordheim's Vevnad (1993), a homage to weaver Hannah Ryggen, proposes a resemblance between the Disklavier and a loom - @13_dOCUMENTA
As the author appears in the text, so does the painter in the painting - Raymond Williams, 'When was Modernism?'
The logic of capitalism weaves the socius like the textile of a particular set of relationships - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RODOLFO: In quell'azzurro - guizzo languente/ sfuma un'ardente - scena d'amor./ COLLINE: Scoppietta un foglio./ MARCELLO: Là c'eran baci!
RODOLFO: Bella come un'aurora./ MIMI: Hai sbagliato il raffronto./ Volevi dir: bella come un tramonto.
The defences of Istanbul were Europe's Great Wall - Andrew Marr's History of the World, BBC
Mali was the African Eldorado - Andrew Marr's History of the World, BBC
Shibuya-kei : Japan :: K-pop : South Korea :: Cantopop : China :: Schlager : Germany :: Turbofolk : Balkans - @financialtimes
Herbert Grönemeyer - a Westphalian Scott Walker. @financialtimes
Is 'Gangnam Style' merely the 'Macarena' of today? - FT Weekend
[Video game] Catherine, at a pinch, could be a modern version of a Jane Austin novel. - Lucy Kellaway, FT Weekend
Proteus is the video game equivalent of James Joyce's Ulysses, only less eventful. At least Bloom occasionally picks his nose. - FT Weekend
[Video game] Fez is pretty and ingenious, but it's not exactly Proust. It's not even JK Rowling. - Lucy Kellaway, FT Weekend
The GameCity Prize is modelled on the Booker Prize - Lucy Kellaway, FT Weekend
Bosideng is the Marks & Spencer of China - Gao Dekang
Her mind turning at bay, like a cornered lion/ In whom fear comes as hunters close the ring. - Homer (trans. Fitzgerald) IV 844-5
...flippered seals, brine children - Homer's Odyssey, IV, 430 (trans. Fitzgerald) @rwhe
Mornington Crescent and Primrose Hill is Frank Auerbach's equivalent of Cezanne's Mont Saint-Victoire - Jackie Wullschlager, FT Weekend
Ole Bull - the Nordic Paganini
L’amitié avec un homme ? Ah ! Autant parler de la lune en plein midi ! #renoir
Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan - François Villon, via Stephen Rodefer
"Werckmeister Harmonies" is a classic demo of Béla Tarr's almost Brucknerian approach to filmmaking - Derek Elley, Rotten Tomatoes
Jaise veerane mein chupke-se bahaar aa jaaye/ Jaise bimaar ko bevazah qaraar aa jaaye - Faiz
Quiet morning breeze on desert sand,/ Last night your memory crossed my mind. - Faiz
Danziam, fanciulle egizie,/ Le mistiche carole,/ Come d'intorno al sole/ Danzano gli astri in ciel. - Aida, Ghislanzoni/Verdi
Early Yoox was an online version of Woodbury Common. (The New Yorker)
Richard Feynman: "Philosophy of science is as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds."
How the West Was Won : John Ford :: 2001: A Space Odyssey : Stanley Kubrick
"Sood oude songen soo pypen de yonge" - Jan Steen, The Merry Family, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
hipbonegamer@hipbonegamer2 Sep 12 - Africa : Europe :: picture : Dorian Gray - carrier onto whom master unloads physical & moral deformities Achebe
If restaurants were rock bands, Xian Famous Foods might be Nirvana circa 1991 (The New Yorker)
Death was no more than a jacket that slips off a coat hanger and falls to the floor (My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgaard, in The New Yorker)
"It works on the same principle as the cantilever bridge" - Midge in Hitchcock's Vertigo, on a strapless bra prototype
Asbury Park became Springsteen's Liverpool, his Tupelo, his Hibbing. (The New Yorker)
Brantôme: the Venice of Perigord
Lascaux is the Sistine Chapel of prehistory - Abbé Henri Breuil
Abbé Henri Breuil: “The Pope of Prehistory”
Fake AP Stylebook@FakeAPStylebook10 Jan 12 - "LEGO" is the plural. The singular is "Legum."
spectators : players :: passers-by : spectators - Roman Ondák, Observations, in Documenta 13
“@intercapillary: The image of the game with the 'game' element removed" see also Bob Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, John Cage
Edmund Hardy@intercapillary27 Jul 12 - The image of the game with the 'game' element removed: Mallarme's 'roll of the dice'; Heraclitus' fragment 52 (Aeon at play by the sea)
...the trunk may be discharged of breath/ As violently as hasty powder fir'd/ Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb (Romeo and Juliet, V i)
What Indo-European root is to WOMB as *TEU (to swell) is to TOMB? - cf. Latin TUMERE (to be swollen), Irish TOMM (hillock)
...la tua pace/ ...che parlar ti piace/ Mentre che il vento, come fa, si tace. - Dante's Inferno, via Joyce's Ulysses @hipbonegamer @semblnet
He saw them three by three, approaching girls, in green, in rose, in russet - Ulysses, James Joyce
Rhymes: two men dressed the same, looking the same, two by two ... mouth south: tomb womb - Ulysses, James Joyce
Poultry is for the cook what the canvas is for the painter - Brillat-Savarin
hipbonegamer@hipbonegamer18 Jul 12 - The U.S. Congress and Terrorist Groups, Lesson One. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen : Peter King :: MEK : IRA.
"Boulez' Derive 2 sounds like birthday cakes ought to" - Philip Clark, Gramophone
"The Strait of Hormuz is the jugular vein of the West" (Cyrus Vance)
The Higgs boson is the quantum of the Higgs field, just as the photon is the quantum of the electromagnetic field
Wagner was a beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn - Claude Debussy, quoted by Geoffrey Norris in Gramophone
Choose a firm Cloud before it falls, and in it/ Catch e'er she die, the Cynthia of the Minute/ Fresh as a daisy and as dirty - A-8, Zukofsky
Curating is a matter juxtaposition of work against work, artist against artist, place against place - A.Searle on Documenta 13, The Guardian
The whole of language is the holding up of one unlike thing to compare, contrast and connect with another
Cool Like Pie • “Space is to place as eternity is to time.” - Joseph Joubert (via Nature)
Caterpillar is to butterfly as book is to ? - http://amandawatson-will.blogspot.com
"Kal-toh is to chess as chess is to tic-tac-toe." - Tuvok. Guest 12. http://www.trekbbs.com
As one who has trodden with naked foot - XXXVII Egerton, Wyatt; III ii Faerie Queen, Spenser; Love Melancholy, Burton; Blue Slides, Prynne
Robert Burton : Oxford :: Jeremy Prynne :: Cambridge
They teach others to fast, and play the gluttons themselves; like watermen, that row one way and look another - Robert Burton
'Monsieur de Bissy is to chess as Mademoiselle Clairon is to acting' - from Rameau's Nephew, by Denis Diderot
Fauré's Theme and Variations (no. 9) is like an evening star falling slowly from the sky - Bryce Morrison cites Alfred Cortot in Gramophone
Each session or play being a game, a fragmentary show, but sufficient at that unto itself - Le "Livre," Mallarmé, cited p.180, Derrida, ibid
It is the hymen that desire dreams of bursting in an act that is between love and murder - p.164, Derrida, ibid
Plato : sun :: Mallarmé : lustre (p.160, Acts of Literature, Derrida, J., ed. Attridge, D., Routledge (1992))
Houla in 2012 : Syria :: Rachak in 1999 : Kosovo - "investigate objectively before concluding" - Sergei Lavrov, Russian foreign minister
He: So you were like the female Indiana Jones, without the hat and whip? She: Well, without the hat... (from Castle)
Thinking is to humans as swimming is to cats” (Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman)
R is to Volvo as M is to BMW and AMG to Mercedes. http://www.theglobeandmail.com
Stable pricing is to metaphysics as variable pricing is to poststructuralism - http://www.eurotrib.com
Macon Telegraph: Recipes are to food as blueprints are to buildings.
"[Your daughter] has lovers as numerous as the striking of tablas on Palm Sunday" - Arabic satire by Abu Nawas, 756 - 813 AD
"And the veins of the earth, and the veins of a leaf,/ and the ribs of the human body are like each other" - A-8, Zukofsky
"[Moriarty] is the Napoleon of Crime" - from Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
"Greece is the canary in the coal mine" -Luis de Guindos, Spanish finance minister
Van Halen's version of loud is more gas than flame, more shimmer than glare - The New Yorker
Hackers are to computers as plumbers are to pipes - George Hotz, in The New Yorker
Kraftwerk is the Warhol of pop music - The New Yorker
"Seeing [Sarah Sze's sculpture] was like seeing Twombly and Pollock in space" - Richard Serra quoted in The New Yorker
"Ivan Malinovsky (a Danish René Char by idiom)" - Peter Quantrill, Gramophone
Helmut Schmidt : Valéry Giscard d'Estaing :: Helmut Kohl : François Mitterrand :: Angela Merkel :: François Hollande
de Larrocha : Albeniz :: Schnabel : Beethoven :: Rubinstein : Chopin :: Gieseking : Debussy :: Thyssens-Valentin : Faure (Bryce Morrison)
Camões' Os Lusíadas : Portugal :: Virgil's Aeneid : Ancient Rome :: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey : Ancient Greece
Pío Baroja y Nessi : Basque country :: Benito Pérez Galdós : Madrid
Harry is to Malfoy as James is to... http://bit.ly/IHce9N
Ryu is to Ken as Tomoya is to Sunohara http://bit.ly/IZRXwm
Tapco stocks are to 10/22s as Training Bras are to BIG TlTS http://bit.ly/IZPX7p
John Ireland is to broadcasting as Milwaukee is to fun http://bit.ly/HMK8ea
Summoners rift is to twisted treeline as Dota is to LoL http://bit.ly/HMJYU2
As a beat is to music, as choreography is to dance, rhythm adds vitality to a garden. http://bit.ly/HNt6ux
5631829271 is to 4823748463 as 3295871652 is to... http://bit.ly/HNsMMp
"I is to they / as river is to barge" (from Address, by Elizabeth Willis)
Dale is to walking dead as Piggy is to lord of the flies http://bit.ly/HNsyox
Verbose is to concise as watered is to distilled. @justknecht
Valentine is to Skullgirls as Ken is to Street Fighter. http://bit.ly/IOWHWs
Kim Kardashian is to Beyonce as a Chevette is to a Corvette http://bit.ly/IGQR8w
SPAM is to Hawaii as grits is to South Carolina Hawaii's http://bit.ly/IGPXss
Beauty is to aestheticism as pleasure is to: nihilism, humanism, hedonism, libertarianism, behaviourism, positivism. http://scr.bi/IHdmdu
Florals are to Cacharel as stripes are to Chanel http://bit.ly/IHcEgn
Tomato is to Plato as _____ is to Hegel. (aigle, bagel, kagel, daglo) http://bit.ly/IZTzGB
Graffiti is to painting as rap is to poetry http://bit.ly/Hfy0lb
She is to Hera as Notch is to Zeus #minecraft http://bit.ly/HNsiWL
“Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.” -Philip Larkin
Cloud is to capacity planning as agile is to waterfall http://bit.ly/HNrMYz
Today is to tonight as yesterday is to ...? http://bit.ly/HNrrFr
Socrates is to Greece as ? is to Rome (Marcus Aurelius, Sextus Empiricus, Seneca the Younger, Jesus, Cicero) http://yhoo.it/HNqNHS
The Left is to human welfare as prostitution is to love http://bit.ly/HNqgpm
"Dancing With the Stars" is to dancing as Kiss is to rock music http://bit.ly/HNq3mi
500px is to Flickr as Vimeo is to YouTube http://bit.ly/HNpNn2
SHEEP is to FORAGE as OUTLAWS is to _____ (Detroit in '68, romantics, pretty lies, booty) http://bit.ly/HNniBi
RURAL is to SOIL as URBAN is to _____(red house painters, american music club, prefab sprout, pavement) http://bit.ly/HNniBi
WOODS is to ACORN as ORCHARD is to ____ (boring someone in some dark cafe, fishnet stockings and a bowtie, peach) http://bit.ly/HNniBi
RT: Daryl Dixon is to Walking Dead, as Sawyer is to Lost. # lost · # walking dead · # daryl dixon · # sawyer http://bit.ly/IGRfUo
Algol (or C++) is to Assembly Language as Natlang is to ? http://bit.ly/IGQomw
Librarians are to libraries as Angels are to Heaven @patriotglen @FridayReads #fridayreads
Ron Hale-Evans @rwhe - The Worm Ouroboros is to the Zimiamvian Trilogy as The Hobbit is to The Lord of the Rings. #tolkien @justknecht
'Medtner is the Russian Brahms - or Schumann, to be more truthful' (Gramophone magazine)
Soll ich den Kelch nicht trinken, den mir mein Vater gegeben hat?
'The blameless venom of bees' (a kenning for 'honey' in Pindar, Olympian 6, 47-48) @rwhe
Malbec is to Argentina as Zinfandel is to California. (San Angelo Standard Times)
Dre Beats are to headphones as Jordans are to shoes. (http://sputnikmusic.com)
Pro is to Con as Progress is to Congress. (http://baghdadbythebaysf.com)
Heard and McDonald Islands are to Australia as the Turks and Caicos Islands are to what? (http://www.denverpost.com)
Soldier is to TF2 as Ryu is to Street Fighter. (http://foroms.steampowered.com)
Fate is to Sidereals as Awesome is to Solars. (http://forums.whitewolf.com)
Fish are to creel as strawberries are to ? (punnet, innocence, sundae, Glyndebourne)
Bankers are to job creation as gangsters are to protection. (The Liberal Gun Club Forum)
Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars. Walter Benjamin
"Mujtahidd is the Saudi version of WikiLeaks" (Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, Emirates University, Dubai, as reported by Roula Khalaf in the FT)
Will it be Keigo Higashino or Shuichi Yoshida to be the Japanese Stieg Larsson?
13 Sep 10 Nor Art Germs @estormgarner - Impersonal cultural criticisms, intimate confessions, factual news or poetry? What's the Platonic form of a Tweet? What shall mine be?
30 Oct Nor Art Germs @estormgarner - "But ah the Attic honey/ Of telling a man exactly what you think of him!" --Palladas, trans. Dudley Fitts
9 Nov Nor Art Germs @estormgarner - "As far as language goes/Beauty towers--Japanese--/Like snow over Denver." from "Sufism" by Semezdin Mehmedinovic, trans. Ammiel Alcalay
9 Dec Faran Krentcil @FaranKrentcil - "Don't save your good stuff for 'some other scene'." --more playwriting class instructions that also feel like life advice.
8 Feb Nor Art Germs @estormgarner - "Tea is like wine," claims my herbal tea packaging, in bold. "Buenos Aires is like Paris" insisted the Argentines. Self-empowerment needed.
4 Mar Nor Art Germs @estormgarner - And sometimes...in life...dressed as a clown...a button pops off a sleeve & then it is perfectly clear what one should do: sew it back on.
There is much in common between shamanism and musical composition (Kimmo Korhonen on Einojuhani Rautavaara)
The great transformation?? Bullshit! Nobody with four aces wants a new deal! (Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker)
The violin screams for her life before the 2nd movement chorale, like the death-cry of Lulu (Isabelle Faust, on Berg's violin concerto)
2 Mar (((1/f))) @fadesingh - "...physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... " ( 2/2 ) Quine
2 Mar (((1/f))) @fadesingh - "Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ..." (1/2)
1 Mar (((1/f))) @fadesingh - @Bitchs_Brew Seurat also painted with dots ( the first one to do so ) Kusama is just the oversized Madonna of pointillism. @Phyrodite
2 Mar (((1/f))) @fadesingh - Sublime and perfect metaphor. RT @justknecht "A Lagrange point is like a gravitational Sargasso Sea"
Rwanda - Africa's Singapore? (The Economist)
(Horses turning) Tide ("A" 4, Louis Zukofsky)
Gold? Politics' light. ("A" 8, Louis Zukofsky)
Seven is the number of the horses of Surya, the storeys of the Chandra Mahal, and the gates of the Siredyodhi Bazar (Rosa Maria Cimino)
Manrico : Leonora in Verdi's Trovatore :: Ussoni : Livia in Visconti's Senso (Millicent Marcus)
Franck is Proust's Vinteuil
Respighi: the Italian Strauss
"The golden door of her emotion opened wide." (Mushrooms and Roses, Janelle Monae)
Schubert's apocalyptic, harmonically visionary E flat mass Sanctus :: molten canvases of Turner or late Goya (Gramophone magazine)
Sehnsucht :: Saudade
Geopetal structures are Nature's spirit levels
Zbigniew Brzezinski was Jimmy Carter's Kissinger
Life's dance (Nietzsche)
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is the Aboriginal answer to Stevie Wonder (reviewer on Amazon)
"A Lagrange point is like a gravitational Sargasso Sea" (Solar System app for iPad)
12 Dec ethnomath @ethnomath - For Malaysian Chinese, license plates with an "8" are lucky b/c the Cantonese word for 8 "baat" sounds like"fatt" which means prosperity.
Bharata Natyam, it is said, is the embodiment of music in visual form
They may crush the flowers, but they can't stop the Spring. (Alexander Dubček)
Brakes are to cars as coolers are to computers. http://bit.ly/sgGK46
Language is to chess as speech is to a game of chess http://bit.ly/vmW2Rk
Alois Senefelder did for image printing what Gutenberg did for letterpress printing http://bit.ly/uY4q7t
Ryobi is to Bosch as McDonalds is to Subway http://bit.ly/uK7hwP
Arthur Miiller's Crucible is an allegory for what happened during the "red scare" in American in the 1950's. http://bit.ly/v4PgGa
Hunger is to starving as thirst is to ______? http://yhoo.it/sNQXTR
Ueshiba did for Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu what Bruce Lee did for Wing Chun. http://bit.ly/u6xSAV
Coconut Glen's is to Maui as Trouble Coffee is to SF. http://flic.kr/p/aAPYn1
Occupy Olympia is to Mostly Peaceful as Michael Moore is to Mostly Thin. http://bit.ly/udBGxR
Tebow does for MaGahee what Vick does for LeSean McCoy, or Young did for Chris Johnson. http://bit.ly/tupUyg
JIK=POQ as BDA=? JIK/JPO/JKI/JIO. http://bit.ly/sCKQOo
Gun is to Shoot as Scissors is to- Sew/Cut/Keep/Reap/Use. http://bit.ly/sCKQOo
ZWTO=PMJG as OLIF=? EBYN/BEYN/EBXN/EBYO. http://bit.ly/sCKQOo
Sorrow is to Misfortune as Joy is to - Cheer/Happy/Proud/Loud? http://bit.ly/sCKQOo
Noel and Freddie and Isaiah are to Martha and Cass and Amartya as A and B and C are to X and Y and Z. (The Iconoclast, http://bit.ly/vJu47e)
Élodie Navarre is to Laura Morante as John Malkovich is to ? (The Iconoclast, http://bit.ly/vJu47e)
Steven Pinker is to Noam Chomsky as Quentin Skinner is to ? (The Iconoclast, http://bit.ly/vJu47e)
Kathryn Harrison is to Marguerite Duras as ? is to Marguerite Yourcenar. (The Iconoclast, http://bit.ly/vJu47e)
Is John Montague to Seamus Heaney as Lavinia Greenlaw is to Carol Ann Duffy? (The Iconoclast, http://bit.ly/vJu47e)
Is Bernard-Henri Lévy the French equivalent of Jeffrey Sachs? (The Iconoclast, http://bit.ly/vJu47e)
Is Virginia Water the English version of Tuxedo Park? (The Iconoclast, http://bit.ly/vJu47e)
Is the Ile de Ré the French version of Martha’s Vineyard? (The Iconoclast, http://bit.ly/vJu47e)
Is Vermont the American Umbria? (The Iconoclast, http://bit.ly/vJu47e)
Is New England to America as East Anglia is to England? (The Iconoclast, http://bit.ly/vJu47e)
Is Bedale’s the English Putney, or is Putney the American Bedale’s? (The Iconoclast, http://bit.ly/vJu47e)
Is Exeter to Andover as Eton is to Harrow? (The Iconoclast, http://bit.ly/vJu47e)
Primes are to Irreducible Polynomials as Prime-related theorems are to ? http://bit.ly/uRQaAa
Video games are to guys as ______ are to girls...? http://yhoo.it/sBM1iD
Spreaker (free) just went live in the App Store this morning and it does for audio what Twitter does for text http://bit.ly/s1rVUm
"Tim Tebow makes Jamarcus Russel look like Warren Moon" http://bit.ly/vxQkWz
Absence does for love what the wind does for a flame: it extinguishes the weak, and feeds the strong. http://bit.ly/uWQUDr
Meghan McCain does for political journalism what Kim Kardashian does for documentaries http://bit.ly/ruI4HD
Layperson here, but it seems like Alfred did for England what Charlemagne did for France http://bit.ly/w4rYwq
Shani is to Cronus as Prithvi is to...? http://bit.ly/s9MjiZ... @waichia
Tim Tebow is to Sarah Palin as Ryan Leaf is to Barack Obama http://bit.ly/shALAW
Being point man for business in Ed Miliband's Labour party is the equivalent of working in bomb disposal. http://tgr.ph/rOerwS
Obama does for inept what Stonehenge does for rocks. http://bit.ly/thSJxL
The passions are to us as the different components are to the engine of a car. http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?p=8626458
It is as if he has just been asked to hand over his first-born child to a travelling circus. http://bit.ly/voS3gh
Brontë sisters : Gothic romance, :: Tolkien : sword-and-sorcery :: Justin Green : confessional autobiographical comix http://bit.ly/vLJ0OU)
The Dreaming did for Kate Bush what Swordfishtrombones did for Tom Waits: a revolution in sound and working practice http://bit.ly/vjccSD
Stephen Schneider did for climate science what Carl Sagan did for astronomy http://bit.ly/w2c2Tq
Skele-toes are to vibrams as: A) Go-bots are to transformers B) mega blocks are to Legos C) slanket is to the snuggie http://bit.ly/viXkyv
Jobs did for the pinwheel what Gates did for the hourglass. http://bit.ly/t6ALZS
Robert E Howard did for fantasy what Chandler & Hammett did for crime fiction. http://bit.ly/t9tNQe
Rhodium makes gold look like paper dollars (Wall Street Journal - http://on.wsj.com/tfseLt )
"A combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike" - Samuel Johnson on metaphysical poets
Another one for you @rwhe: "Souls are God's jewels" (Thomas Traherne, in his First Century, Meditation 15)
You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine. (Thomas Traherne, in his Second Century, Meditation 65)
Gellar is to Travis as Harry is to Dexter http://bit.ly/tIFl5t
I'm going to TRY to do for Bobobo what DeZ did for Xiaolin Showdown and what Astrima did for Nights Into Dreams. http://bit.ly/t05vUT
Sherry is to Tequila as Vermouth is to Whiskey. http://bit.ly/tAIQJG
You could post suggestions here, but it's like standing outside a corproate HQ yelling suggestions to the CEO. http://bit.ly/rOp6vP
'Twixt blue and blue extends, a stripe,/ as Life, the somewhat, hangs 'twixt nought and nought:/ 'T is Venice, and 't is Life (Browning)
When Syria is targeted, Palestine is targeted, and when Damascus is targeted, Jerusalem is targeted - Archbishop Hanna http://bit.ly/tgULQQ
Ophelia's Bingo World does for bingo what High Definition does for TV http://bit.ly/saDxFC
Nicomachus did for. arithmetic what Euclid did for geometry http://scr.bi/uFHoTa
Yoshihiro Nishimura 's Helldriver is an allegory for the film industry http://bit.ly/siw0th
Milk is to cottage cheese as industrialization is to? a. nationalism b. sectionalism c. urbanization d. imperialism. http://yhoo.it/vlqYBL
"Filmbuffet is to movies as Shelfari is to books" http://bit.ly/s8VsUD
The world's first experiment in consensually apolitical politics: the equivalent of windless sailing, or heatfree steam http://bit.ly/vdXUgJ
Qantas Gold is equivalent to oneworld Sapphire, while Qantas Platinum is equivalent to oneworld Emerald. http://bit.ly/uHRn4C
It is as if the market can't decide what it wants to be—a bear or a bull. http://bit.ly/tSasgd
Michael Jackson did for gloves what Elvis did for gold lame jump suits. http://bit.ly/w4nq4Y
Does anyone think that Star Wars 3 is an allegory for whats happening in the United States? http://yhoo.it/saFkEQ
Morrison did for X-Men what Bendis did for Avengers. http://bit.ly/szlkPg
Cutler's replacement by Hanie is like U2 backing out of Glastonbury to be replaced by a Barenaked Ladies tribute band. http://bit.ly/tjLmfL
Rankin does for England what Spike Milligan does for Ireland. http://bit.ly/sxChLE
Booklamp does for books what Jango does for music. http://bit.ly/vUOyWh
Brian Setzer did for Gretsch what microwave ovens did for appliance stores. http://bit.ly/u7mWzi
Richard Dawkins does for science what Michael Pollan does for food http://bit.ly/rFL01a
Hatchet did for horror what Expendables did for action flicks. http://bit.ly/tlcFFn
Vic Stone is to Geoff Johns as Luke Cage is to Bendis. http://bit.ly/rPTp40
Uzumaki are to senju as Hyuuga are to Uchiha. http://bit.ly/ur55Oe
Wintertime is to snow as my neighbor is to piling said snow on my yard http://digg.com/news/offbeat/winterti… (cont) http://deck.ly/~IPJIf
Orihime is to ichigo as hinata is to naruto. http://bit.ly/tyACBb
Lums are to Rayman as Rings are to Sonic the Hedgehog. http://bit.ly/rJpWK5
Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars. Walter Benjamin
All these emails - it feels like a denial-of-service attack against my brain' - Micah M. White
Poker ritualises capitalism; North Korea's mass games ritualise totalitarianism; the people's mike ritualises horizontalism (The New Yorker)
James Blunt's Beautiful means Nothing to The Script (The Script play Muscat, 16 Nov 2011)
Stop, weep: thoughts of a lover, cold embers in the sand - The Script, The man who can't be moved (2008); Imru al Qais, Mo'allaqaat (600AD)
#badideas4mayor "Turn underground stations and platforms into a muggers' and vandals' paradise" (Bob Crow's refinement of Mike Brown's idea)
14 Nov Wai Chia Feng @waichia - "Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all." Ovid. ~~The Matrix/Buddhism???
8 Nov Wai Chia Feng @waichia - The eastern tisane equivalent of the camomile is chrysanthemum. *Enjoying my cup of Hangzhou Tai Ju Wang with Manuka honey... :)*
To claim the 90s boom resulted from fiscal discipline would be like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise (ft.com on Bill Clinton)
'We are now called to rebuild Italy on the rubble of finance, of society, of values' (Dario Francheschini)
For @rwhe: "War - dust's mother" (a suitably Norse-sounding Arabic kenning from the Lamiyyat of al Shanfara al Azdi)
Songs are poetry clothed with melody (Jahiz, 9th century AD)
The clouds poured forth their gift Like a Yemeni merchant spreading out all the rich clothes from his trunks (Imru al Qais, d.565AD)
Abu Nawas (756-814AD) was for 'modern' poetry what Imru' al Qays (526-565AD) was for the 'ancients' - Abu 'Ubayda (d.824AD)
The longing for wine in his poems was really a longing for self obliteration in the divine (Tayeb Salih on Abu Nawas)
The recording studio liberates the musician like a safety net liberates the trapeze artist (Jordi Savall, Gramophone magazine)
"Smokey Robinson is the poet laureate of American music" (Bob Dylan, in FT.com)
A mid-tempo chug equivalent to developing a taste in real ale, or complaining about young people's haircuts (FT.com on Wilco's London gig)
"Marc Ribot is the Lon Chaney of the guitar - there are so many voices he can conjure"(Tom Waits, in The New Yorker)
The intellectual equivalent of a tacky butterfly tattoo from some wild long-ago summer (The New Yorker on early Pauline Kael)
She presided over movies like Béla Károlyi watching a gymnast on the beam (The New Yorker on Pauline Kael)
GODZILLA is an allegory for the H-bomb destruction suffered by Japan a decade before its production http://bit.ly/nhzEuy
God is to Atheism as a Map is to GPS http://www.organmatters.com/index.php?topic=1002.0
Manaus (Brazil) is the jungle version of a Chinese free trade zone (www.ft.com)
"Undemocratic global institutions are our global Mubarak, Assad or Ghaddafi" (Egality, in FT.com)
Cassiopeia upside down in a chair (Greeks, Romans), camel (Arabs), a hand or moose antlers (Eskimos), enemy aircraft (Israel, May 2011)
Nap is to slumber as nibble is to ______. (www.slideserve.com)
Wet is to dry as partner is to ______. (www.slideserve.com)
Silly is to ridiculous as happy is to ______. (www.slideserve.com)
Philosophy of science does for science what ornithology does for birds. (justoneminute.typepad.com)
Flamebird is to Batwoman as Robin is to Batman (www.comicvine.com)
IKEA is Lego for grown-ups, connecting the furniture of our adulthoods with the toys of our childhoods (The New Yorker)
The Romanian duck - or Chinese chicken - feather story is to Kamprad as the cherry-tree tale is to George Washington. (The New Yorker)
As Kamprad tells it, he was an Agunnarydian Iacoca (The New Yorker)
We have toiled hard in a difficult field to produce sweet harvests (IKEA ad, 1981)
Smålanders are known as the Scots of Sweden (The New Yorker)
The boot is on the other foot, as BRIC countries begin to refer to troubled Eurozone countries as PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain)
nIndustrial bellwether copper is down 35% from this year's high (www.ft.com)
John Barry is to the US Navy as William Brown is to the Argentinian Navy (from the John Barry Bar, Muscat, Oman)
Uzbekistan is to melons as France is to wine, a center of excellence and diversity. (Los Angeles Times)
Ebay is to Hewlett Packard as Tijuana is to San Diego (davesmall at forums.appleinsider.com)
What is the equivalent of Mercedes S-Class for Audi? (www.automotivecrawler.com)
bench is to garden as _____ is to love (b0rn2b1ush on www.lomography.com)
Actors are to greenroom as baseball players are to what? (Leslie P on answers.yahoo.com)
Subversive is to 5th column as blissful is to: 7th heaven, 3rd base? (Leslie P on answers.yahoo.com)
It is like arguing a scientist lives inside a neutron by defining “neutron” as “your house.” (muslimmatters.org on Dawkins' God Delusion)
MULTITUDE is to CROWD as EMBANKMENT is to: mound, gully, protect, or amass? ('latino cutie' on yahoo.answers.com)
Viktoria Plzeň playing AC Milan is like a chance meeting on the autostrada between a Lamborghini and a Škoda Fabia (www.ceskapozice.cz)
The modern IKEA labyrinth is like the 17th century Bazaar of Isfahan in Persia (Alan Penn, University College London, in The New Yorker)
Nacho Vigalondo and I dug deep into the possibility that Angry Birds is an allegory for the Israeli/Palestinian conflict (Cole Abaius)
What is the equivalent of a Magnum .45 in rifles? (question deleted by censor on ca.answers.yahoo.com)
Viewers are to television networks as ____ are to ____. teachers:students; buyers:sellers; restaurants:diners; research:homework (weegy.com)
Mining stocks, often seen as a proxy for economic expansion, dominated the downside (www.ft.com)
Coltrane's Fifth House : Porter's What is this Thing called Love :: Coltrane's Countdown : Davis' Tune Up ("Coltrane changes" - wikipedia)
Applying macroeconometric models fiscal policy is the equivalent of using pre-Copernican astronomy to launch a satellite. (The American)
What Schabel is to Beethoven, Rubinstein to Chopin and Gieseking to Debussy, surely Kempff is to Schubert (Bryce Morrison)
Poised against the Mayflower is the slave ship (William Carlos Williams)
Schubert's B flat piano sonata is the equivalent of Hamlet - its performance a litmus test of character and quality (Bryce Morrison)
The film argues that the Russian-born Aleichim did for Yiddish what Shakespeare did for English (www.twincities.com)
What is to pigs as equine is to horses? (www.quora.com)
What is the female equivalent of "Messrs."? (www.quora.com)
Insurance did for health care what easy lending did for real estate. In both cases, prices shoot out of reach.(www.survivalistboards.com)
Vasari did for artists what Plutarch did for politicians (The Guardian)
Jason Schwartzman is to Gabe Kaplan as Kirsten Dunst is to Marcia Strassman. (gastrocinema.com)
Snooki and Deena dance in a way that makes Ronnie look like Rudolf Nureyev. (New York Magazine)
For foodies, fall is the equivalent of relay runners passing the baton. Apples, squash, cinnamon and ginger come together. Lesley Fucci
Where Field sighs, Chopin groans ... we implore Mr Chopin to return to nature (Ludwig Rellstab)
6 Sep Wai Chia Feng @waichia - Fingerspitzengefühl: Intuition: connection: level of consciousness
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives (Audre Lorde, from Sister Outsider)
"E l'alba! Turandot tramonta!"
Kris Kristofferson basically did for country what Dylan did for pop (fancythatvintage.blogspot.com)
Nostradamus did for bullshit what Stonehenge did for rocks. (www.narutoforums.com)
Al Gore makes Moses look like a missed business opportunity (www.silobreaker.com)
Sherry is to Tequila as Vermouth is to Whiskey. (www.alcademics.com)
The central banks' modeling of demand is the equivalent of the alchemists' search for the philosophers' stone (www.icis.com)
The popular US Social Security retirement program is the equivalent of an illegal Ponzi scheme. (Rick Perry)
12 Sep PBQ: Lit magazine @PaintedBrideQ - "I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey." #hlmencken #happybday
Poet laureate Duffy says texting is the new poetry - it's a perfecting of a feeling for language, saying more with less http://bbc.in/ofFcTS
Ardor is to alleviation as incessant is to: Jogging, Gliding, Hunting, Cleaning, or Learning? http://bit.ly/oiie8t
using a fire hose to put out a match :: painting your fingernails with a paint roller :: cracking a nut with a steam hammer :: ___________?
Human interaction is to society as maths is to science (Stuart Diamond, Wharton Business School, http://tgr.ph/oDl2cp)
STALE is to STEAL as 89475 is to...? answers.yahoo.com
Libertarians are to economics as creationists are to biology (BasicEcon101, on www.reddit.com)
4 Aug CJ Werleman @rationalists - A Christian asked what it was like to be an atheist. I asked him if he believed in Islam. He said, "no." I said, "Like that"
Letters are to atoms as words are to? (www.chacha.com)
Asoka's grandson Samprati did for Jainism what Asoka did for Buddhism. http://bit.ly/roDfMA
soulja boy makes mr. casanova look like supernat (http://bit.ly/nmNRsT)
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. (femmenoire.tumblr.com)
Sonny Rollins' Airegin is to Proznick's Adanac as Nigeria is to Canada (Ottawa Citizen)
Muslims are to Islam as Christians are to Christianity, Scientologists are to Scientology, or atheists are to rationality. (answerfuse.com)
Jionni is to Snooks as Rawn is to Sam. (Reality Tea on Jersey Shore)
Inch is to foot as dozen is to? answers.yahoo.com
Love : Death :: Liù : Turandot
Harsh sequences of mixed tonality are transformed into cadences, just as Calaf melts the frozen heart of the cruel princess.
These two chords are like chemicals which are harmless by themselves, but explode when mixed. (Goldovsky on Turandot, Archive.operainfo.org)
The servant Liù : The Unknown Prince (Calàf) in Turandot :: The servant Doria :: Giacomo Puccini in real life
"What is like ice, but burns like fire? What is the ice that makes you burn?" (from Turandot)
"What flickers red and warm like a flame, but is not fire?" (from Turandot)
"... What is born each night and dies each dawn?" (from Turandot)
Chastain is a Botticelli, Mirren is a Renoir, and that's that. (Anthony Lane, on The Debt, The New Yorker)
Busoni's princess Turandot is not quite as implacable as Puccini's: her heart is readier to melt.
Eugenio Fernandi is a stalwart Calaf, and even knows something about the approach shot, as golfers call it (Turandot, Gramophone, Sept 1958)
Americans are to Burgers as Europeans are to... (punchlines to joke-off.com/jokes)
The ultraviolent sport at the centre of the film 'Warrior' makes boxing look like a Japanese tea ceremony (Salon)
I against my brother; brother and I against our cousin; brother and cousin against the neighbors; all against strangers. (Bedouin proverb)
Trilogy of Terror did for our living room what Jaws did for the tub. (ironjaiden on forum.expressobeans.com)
Joe Budden did for Tahiry what Kanye did for Amber Rose (Pretty Bitch on basedobp.tumblr.com)
Dressed to Kill did for sex what Scarface did for violence. (www.parkandbond.com)
Hats are to Fall as florals are to Spring (www.thefashionspot.com)
“That Kastelorizo island belongs to Greece.” is the equivalent of Greeks saying; “That Ankara belongs to Turkey”. (www.emg.rs)
Dendrite is to axon as..? A) into is to from B) synapse is to ion C) ion is to synapse D) brain is to spinal cord. (au.answers.yahoo.com)
HBO has a higher population of prostitutes per capita than Amsterdam or Charlie Sheen's Christmas card list. (Mary McNamara, LA Times)
Muhammad : Marshall Vian Summers :: Hajj : Encampment (PR Newswire)
Chef Gabriele Bonci is the 'Michelangelo of pizza' (www.guardian.co.uk/travel)
Gary Barlow dancing could probably make Jason Donovan look like Anton Du Beke. (guardian.co.uk, on the new UK season of Strictly...)
The 800lb gorillas of business need to avoid the low hanging fruit and think outside the box (metaphor loses its meaning, FT.com)
Mooncakes are to the East as fruitcakes are to the West - more showy than practical, often passed around as gifts. (articles.sfgate.com)
"Girlfriends are to airshows as cats are to baths." (forums.jetcareers.com)
"Water dripping from a leaky tap. Footsteps approaching the door, never arriving.” (Antoon's translation of Darwish, on death and Beirut)
“It rises and falls, an echo of an echo of a sky stripped of the howling of steel." (Antoon's translation of Darwish, on death and Beirut)
Claiming Aldgate is 'in Tower Hamlets' is like saying a Calais booze cruise is a seaborne invasion of the European mainland. (Indymedia UK)
Alpina is to BMW as AMG is to Mercedes-Benz (autoguide.com)
Leaves are to Needles as Cones are to Blossoms (an original platinum/palladium print by Roger D. Mullins, http://historyrhetstudies.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/02_thoreau.jpg)
Horses are to cavalry as cannons are to ______. (www.nps.gov)
Of tea I sing: Tea does for procrastination what coffee does for work. www.explorecanadalikealocal.com
People often say that 'nowness' is moving down the series of events like a spotlight along a line of chorus girls. (Derek Parfitt)
Kant's imperative is like compulsory voting, with only one candidate. (Derek Parfitt, in The New Yorker)
Tin Man : Worker :: Scarecrow : Farmer :: Lion : William Jennings Bryan :: Emerald City : Washington DC :: Yellow Brick Road : Gold Standard
Animal Farm is an allegory for what happened in Russia between the years of about 1917 and 1943.
Poussin's Rinaldo and Armida (c 1630) after Torquato Tasso: an allegory of loving reason holding back murderous passion
Royal Academy announces new Poet-in-Residence who will explore links between visual arts and poetry http://zite.to/nuqq5k via @zite
Faith does for living what sunshine does for stained-glass windows. (Gerta Schaffner, twodaughtersandamutt.blogspot.com)
Chrome is to Harley-Davidson as carbon fiber is to ______. (Desmo_Demon, www.ducati.ms)
Poison is to Poisoned as Venom is to ......? (uk.answers.yahoo.com)
Green Jobs Are To Real Jobs as Unicorns Are To Horses: Another Vaunted Green Jobs Plant Shuts. minx.cc/?post=320813
Martinů's symphonies are to the rest of his output what flying is to staggering about on crutches. (Brian Micklethwait)
"Primitive and extremely strong, like Léger's paintings: the rudimentary character allows a very vigorous expression" (Boulez on Janacek)
Toyota : Lexus :: Honda : Acura :: Nissan : Infiniti
13 Aug Babette @BabetteArt - Heels are the bondage into which women are objectified. Placed on a $500 platform disabling her. The Chinese foot binding of our times.
Just as a man discards old clothes and wears new ones, the eternal soul sheds adead body and enters another (The Gita)
François-Joseph Fétis called Fernando Sor "le Beethoven de la guitare"
"Music and football are so similar - it's down to who has the ball, or the tune." (Gabor Takacs-Nagy on Manchester Camerata)
Lance Briggs makes Scrooge look like a Peace Corps volunteer (www.nwitimes.com)
Atoms : molecules :: ? : ? 1- tissues : cells 2- organ systems : cells 3- cells : organ systems 4- atoms : tissues (answers.yahoo.com)
"Works of art that are full of glistening razorblades" (Bryce Morrison on Matti Raekallio's Prokofiev piano sonatas, after Picasso)
Sport is politics by other means (FT editorial, after von Clausewitz)
Analogy: a tree is to a branch as a flower is to what? (answers.yahoo.com)
"Without trust you cannot identify anything; it's like a sandstorm." (Ai Weiwei, on life in Beijing)
"We travel upon the Ark, in mud and rain, Our oars promises from God. We live—and the rest of Humanity dies." (Adonis, The New Noah)
"The poem is meant to be a network rather than a single rope of thought.” (Adonis, Syrian poet today awarded Goethe Prize, NY Times, 2010)
PK Dick is to LSD as HP Lovecraft is to Mushrooms. (https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&m...)
Rods are to light intensity as cones are to ? (yahoo.answers.com)
Kapoor and Plensa ask us to consider what a more perfect union might look like; Johnson asks us to look up a dress. (Spectator.co.uk)
Montessori theory: pupils left in a gym for long enough will discover the arab-spring flick-flack, or Hooke's Law by playing with springs
"The basses and lower strings, sharp-featured and black as the pit of Acheron" (Osborne on Abbado's Fidelio, Gramophone, Sept 2011)
Rutland Boughton (1878-1960) aspired to be an English Wagner (Gramophone, Sept 2011)
After recitals in 1936 and 1939 Parisian critics unanimously agreed that André Mathieu was a "little Quebecer Mozart" (wikipedia)
Time shall glide/ On, as on stately pinion through the grey/ Evening, the culver cuts his liquid way (Dumbarton, David Gray, 1838-1861)
Larry Young was one of the greatest of organists - the John Coltrane of the organ (N Dorward)
John Coltrane : Sonny Rollins :: Picasso : Braques :: radical departure : development of tradition (100greatestjazzalbums.blogspot.com)
You mean Batmaning is the new Horsmaning is the new Planking is the new doing a thing? (gvoakes, digg.com)
Following the libretto in a live performance of Mozart's Requiem is like visiting the Uffizi Gallery with a photofit of Jesus and Mary
Andy Carroll is the new Alan Shearer - Van Persie
Pashimbanga : West Bengal :: Mumbai : Bombay :: Chennai : Madras :: Kolkata : Calcutta :: Odisha : Orissa :: Varanasi :: Benares
Kensington sunset during Matthews' premiere : Mozart Requiem :: 2003 Tsantali Agioritiko Abaton : 1970 Chateau Branaire Ducru (both perfect)
HP : Autonomy :: Kraft : Cadbury (Margot James)
Mick Jagger made Elvis Presley look like Pat Boone (www.guelphmercury.com)
Pittsburgh Makes the NFC's “Dream Team” from Philadelphia look like a high school team
Eye candy : symphony orchestras :: temptation : St Anthony
Justine : Juliette :: Major 3rd : Minor 3rd (de Sade, Brahms 4, BBC Prom 49, explored from all angles)
Planking 2.0: Headless-horsemanning is the new planking (sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com)
"Eye candy" on the back desk of 2nd violins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Prom 48, 19 Aug 2011
Jay-Z: Beyonce is the new Jacko (Press Association, 19 Aug)
Will Cochrane is an MI6 super-spook so rugged he makes Bond look like a ladyboy.(Jeremy Jehu on Spartan, Matthew Dunn, www.telegraph.co.uk)
The electrifying col legno passage is like the beating wings of the angel of death (Seckerson on Jurowski's Mahler 2, Gramophone, Aug 11)
If I could describe it, why would I dance it? (Anna Pavlova)
Americans are to management what Brazilians are to soccer (The Economist)
@ronlin "Print is the new vinyl" John Bracken, director of digital media, Knight Media Foundation, said at #AAJA panel.
Bella beiter bircher firstday planted lightning brighter later. Gol sol. Brersh berj. Bjork bjartr. Ash. Ash. Ash. #UnboundEd
Carmen Laforet's Nada is the Spanish equivalent of Francoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse (Harry Eyres, @sloweyres, FT.com)
11 Aug Bezbobz @bezbobz - Alone in Berlin is faulks answer to kafkas trial
In releasing the breakbeat from the music, Kool Herc discovered the essential DNA of hip hop
It was like the right foot was an explosion, but the timing and the beating of a dance (The Sun, on Wayne Rooney)
With a flash like a strike of lightning, he changed direction, his body's up in the air ... (The Sun, on Wayne Rooney)
Judith Ryan: if I could find a close parallel to Dickie Minyintiri's vast painting it would be the early batiks of Emily Kngwarreye -The Age
Heaney is so firmly established internationally that he makes the Secretary General of the UN look like a filing temp, (Clive James, FT.com)
Nick Clegg's contribution today in the UK is comparable to Gary Rhodes' contribution to xylophone playing
Ed Miliband makes Gordon Brown look like Tony Blair. (MrRascasseman)
A violent uprising against a police state on the verge of martial law and an unelected goverment motivated by personal greed... Syria or UK?
‘Your Majesty is like a stream of bat’s piss - you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark’. (Monty Python)
A pre-occupation with form in music is like believing that the important thing about whisky is the shape of the bottle it comes in (Bailey)
Tonality is like an argument, and the answers to the questions are always the same. (Derek Bailey)
His “superhot” supermodel girlfriend makes Barbie look like Stephen Hawking. (Maryann Johanson, www.flickfilosopher.com)
I make Richard Dawkins look like Father Ted (Tim Stillman)
Mobile has so many protocols it makes the VHS/Beta debate look like rock/paper/scissors (emergic.org)
Lady Gaga has the image of an avant garde street performer yet creates music that makes Drake look like Mozart. (www.steadybloggin.com)
Jared Leto and his band 30 Seconds to Mars sucks. That sums it up. They make Nickleback look like Bach. (www.metacritic.com)
Behind the WWF fluffy panda logo lies a nasty evil empire that would make Ghengis Khan look like a local mafia hood. (www.eco-action.org)
Mireille Silcoff: Tea does for procrastination what coffee does for work.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail makes Ben Hur look like an epic.
JANELLE MONAE makes Alicia look like the boring sad sap that she is (Flashy Cat on Huffington Post)
A Whale of a Killer, He Makes Jaws Look Like Flipper, It's Super Shark! (Dread Central)
Dance came off looking like a poorer cousin of poetry in this self-reflexive work by Japanese artise Zan Yamashita (Straits Times, Aug 9)
Ninja Turtles Coming Out Of Their Shells so effeminate and mincing they make George Balanchine look like Gene Kelly (www.imdb.com)
Hollywood is the new Vienna http://zite.to/n6z7ze via @zite
6 Aug Philosophers quotes @philo_quotes - The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. ~ Socrates http://bit.ly/philq
'Tim Atkins does for translation what Gertrude Stein did for nouns.'(Lisa Jarnot - http://tiny.cc/uatai)
Nick Cave : St John :: Dennis Hopper : Jeremiah :: Clint Eastwood : Moses :: Bono : Jesus (Shadowplay, documentary on Anton Carbijn)
Celebrity : modern age :: religion : ancients (Shadowplay, documentary on Anton Carbijn)
Swings and roundabouts
'Gravity of taste' (strapline for Bliss House restaurant, Beirut, Lebanon)
Watch the throne, l'album de Jay-Z et de Kanye West : Daft Punk/Justice pour l'électro : Arcade Fire/Strokes pour le rock (Liberation 29/7)
Goethe's Faust : Lenau's Faust :: Beethoven's 9th :: Bruckner's 9th (Wittgenstein)
The Site of Graffiti: Linked Poetry and Mu’en (http://zite.to/oaIklI)
Boston Review — David Micah Greenberg: When That Becomes This http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.4/david_micah_greenberg_comparisons_politics_poetry.php via @BostonReview
To see these stones at night and think of the reverie of wasps in liquid solutions (Arkadii Dragomoshchenko)
War is the extension of prose by other means. (Charles Bernstein)
David Tyree helmet-catch : Football :: Wendi Deng :: her fist catching some young scamp’s face.
Olafur arnald's support : talent in general :: olafur arnald's support's drum kit : drum kits in general (missing quite a lot!)
Poetry, the verbal weapon of the Bedouins, later became an instrument that serves the mind like a spoon, without thought or effort (Adonis)
George R R Martin (recently of HBO's Game of Thrones fame) has often been called the American Tolkien
At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting (T S Eliot)
The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of good-bye, the wind, traveling, waving them in its hands. (Pablo Neruda)
Music is exactly like history, which has to be lived both simultaneously and subsequently. (Daniel Barenboim)
Poetry is a mathematical integral - lower limit speech, upper limit music (Louis Zukofsky)
13 Jul The Washington Post @washingtonpost - Could owling be the new planking? http://wapo.st/nzx9vR
Philosophy is to politics as planking is to parkour
Planking is Parkour for those who can’t be arsed.
Democracy is a wallhang collage, or is/ always having been so strung up! (Have Wishly, Keston Sutherland)
He would wear songs are like tattoos down his arm is this (20 Poems, Keston Sutherland, Andrea Brady)
Harry Potter re-presents the resurrection story. (Church Times, Issue 7738)
charlie parker : delirium :: miles davis : ecstacy
Libertarian is to liberal as scientology is to science. (Michael Macdonald, www.care2.com)
8 Jul olivia june @oliviajune - Scientology is to religion as Zynga is to video games... wanna get ahead fast? gotta pay up!
JLS is to Stanely Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut as _______ is to ________ ?
"The Shining" is to Kubrick as "Blue Velvet" is to David Lynch. (www.freewebs.com)
Teardrop : Waterfall :: Coldplay's talent : Janelle Monae
petit allegro : grand allegro in classical ballet :: fast footwork : power moves in breakdance (Jonzi D)
Trojan horse : sack of Troy :: Timotheus' song : sack of Persepolis :: Salome's dance : death of John the Baptist http://tiny.cc/gbg3UK
"[For Merce Cunningham] the sound is the air, or the weather of a dance." (Meredith Monk)
The sign of chance in American music, dance and art is John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Bob Rauschenberg
Fighters : formation :: words : poem :: movements : dance:: ingredients : cookery (http://tiny.cc/gbg3UK)
A ‘Fourier analysis’ of a contemporary battle, meal, poem or dance, with the provenance of each of its components. http://tiny.cc/gbg3UK
What is to dance as fog, friction and chaos are to war? http://tiny.cc/gbg3UK
We become ourselves in our walk, as well as in our speech. (Merce Cunningham)
Attack is to defence as consonant is to vowel as movement is to rest. http://tiny.cc/gbg3UK
Merce Cunningham's Septet (http://tiny.cc/02ory) : Eric Satie :: Balanchine's Apollo Musagete (http://tiny.cc/kd6ot) : Igor Stravinsky
Where is the bridge James Brown wanted to be taken to so badly in Sex Machine? In @JanelleMonae’s Wondaland?
"We are watching Steve Jobs the way Berry Gordy watched Henry Ford." (wondaland.wordpress.com)
"We believe songs are spaceships. We believe music is the weapon of the future. We believe books are stars." (wondaland.wordpress.com)
Like Afro-futurists such as George Clinton and Sun Ra, she uses sci-fi as an allegory for the African-American experience www.guardian.co.uk
Cindi Mayweather : Metropolis :: Archangel : Bible :: Neo : Matrix. (Janelle Monae)
Comedy is to Joey De Leon, as Joey De Leon is to comedy. (profiles.friendster.com/82378511)
The sign of Horlicks on the axis of modern politics is the dodgy February 2003 dossier on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
The sign of the emperor's new clothes on the axis of contemporary art is Spencer Tunick
The sign of the ugly duckling on the axis of pop music represents Lady Gaga's self-mythologised youth as a misfit and freak
Influence is to control as a rich uncle is to a prison warden. (colonelrobertneville.blogspot.com)
Gun control is to bad government as fever is to blood poisoning. (PedalBiker, www.thehighroad.org)
Air traffic control is to aviation as Net Neutrality is to Quality of Service (Prof Rob Frieden, Penn State University)
I've learned love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body (Judas, Lady Gaga)
Philip Fisher has claimed that Twombly sees an analogy to painting in Leander’s nightly swimming. (Cole Swenson)
Fela Kuti's zombie : the doctrine of command responsibility :: Janelle Monae's cyborg : __________________?
I learned that subtext is to text as bun is to hotdog. (Anonymous student of Holly Stave, Northwestern State University)
Eliza Dushku is to Sarah Michelle Gellar as _______________ is to ______________?
Janelle Monae. I like her like a metaphor. She's hard to get. (Lupe Fiasco via Whitney Daniell)
"You and me – what are our superpowers?" (Janelle Monae)
iTweetYouLoL L ∆ L by justknecht
Facebook is like jail. You sit around, waste time, write on walls, and get poked by people you don't know.
@Tea_DaNcEorDie Janelle Monae is the King of the Castle and Lady Gaga is the Dirty Rascal
Buffy is to Willow as Lissa Dragomir (Vampire royal) is to Rose Hathaway (Dhampir). Kathleen, @tdailyobsession
Lafite has established itself as a brand leader. It's the Gucci, Louis Vuitton or Tiffany of the wine world. (www.cnwinenews.com)
Jimmy Choo is to Guerlain Mitsouko as a Renault Twingo is to an Aston Martin (fromtoptobottom-perfumepatter.blogspot.com)
Lee Man Fong is the Lafite of the art market (www.haidu.net)
"Buffy" is to "Miracleman" as "What the hell?" is to "Going on." (Timothy Callahan)
Biggie is to Madlib as Elzhi is to Black Milk, as RZA is to Method Man, as Slug is to Ant, as CL Smooth is to Pete Rock! (@ArbyWanKenobi)
James Joyce is to Henry VIII as Governor Sanford is to Congressman Foley. (shinybaum, www.metafilter.com)
Wu-Tang is to kung fu as Killarmy is to ________. If you answered 'military' you win... (www.rapreviews.com)
Janelle Monae's Archandroid does for rhythm and blues what J S Bach did for the Baroque Suite
RT @scratch_harris: Janelle Monae. Little Richard, Prince and James Brown all rolled into a dynamo. Music has future after all. #bbcglasto
Janelle Monae is the next a) Janet Jackson b) Michael Jackson c) Stevie Wonder d) Jimi Hendrix e) all five of the above !!
46 soufflés fell like the faces of a crowd of jazz musicians at the beginning of the drum solo (after Rick Reilly)
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. (Peter De Vries)
If poetry is a machine made of words (William Carlos Williams) then close reading is reverse engineering
"Ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones." Matthew 23:27
"The snakes, the grass/ too long to see/ the lawnmower standing right next to the tree" DMX
"All flesh is as grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass." 1Peter 1:2
"These cats drink champagne and toast to death and pain/ Like slaves on a ship talking about who got the flyest chain" Talib Kweli
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels but have not love I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal (Corinthians)
He took bread, and brake it, saying: Take, eat, this is my body which is given for you.
Mumford & Sons are the new a) Radiohead b) Cranberries c) Keane d) _________ ?
Journalism is to democracy … as imaginary friend is to unicorn (Schott's vocab)
Facebook is to Sunday morning what karaoke is to Saturday night (Schott's vocab)
Twitter is to adults as Tourette’s is to children (Schott's vocab)
Marriage is to divorce as hay is to a horse (Schott's vocab)
Marriage is to civil unions as Mom is to legal guardian
Who is to Elektra Natchios as Black Cat/ Felicia Hardy is to Spiderman and (yes, that does mean and ... ) Puma?
Obama is to the truth as the truth is to a lie (Schott's vocab)
Obama is to Osama as Osama is to yo mama (Schott's vocab)
Dan Quayle is to G.W. Bush as potential to actual disaster (Schott's vocab)
Who is to Misty Knight as Cyclops (yes - the boy gets around!) is to Samurai/ Colleen Wing ?
antichrist : christ :: tom petterson : _______________ ?
#mateus solano : brendon urie :: chico buarque : ______________ ?
#ClaussenPickles are to New Yorkers as Arirang kimchi is to Koreans
Who is to Sharon Carter/ Agent 13 as Cyclops is to Jean Grey/ Phoenix?
Who is to Black Widow/ Natasha Romanoff as Cyclops, Tony Stark, and countless others are to Emma Frost/ The White Queen?
The work flowed from my pen like the beautiful river Volga. Should I now catch the waves? Impossible! (Janacek on Katya Kabanova)
What was your Damascene moment?
Arch of Taq-i Kisra in Ctesiphon : St Louis Gateway Arch :: Chakzam bridge south of Lhasa : San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge
Jo-ha-kyu is to Japanese aesthetics as Sonata Form is to western classical music
What building is to One Chase Manhattan Plaza as Romeo and Juliet is to West Side Story?
What magical object is to Grimm's Dummling as the lamp is to Aladdin? (Aarne–Thompson)
Who is to the Fantastic Four as Magneto is to the X Men?
Geography is the writing of earth, earth writing. (Ed Dorn)
Who is to Spiderman as Green Goblin is to Batman?
Who is to James Bond as Professor Moriarty is to Sherlock Holmes?
Henny Penny : Turkey Lurkey : : Tony Blair : George Bush (J.H. Prynne)
Henny Penny : The sky falling : : Blair and Bush : WMD in Iraq 2003 (J.H.Prynne)
Baba Yaga : Polish and Russian fairy tales : : Wicked Witch of the West : The Wizard of Oz (Vladimir Propp)
It's cloud/love's/life's illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds/love/life at all (Both Sides Now, Joni Mitchell)
We've become a race of peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. (Rear Window, Hitchcock)
'When General Motors has to go to the bathroom 10 times a day, the whole country's ready to let go.' (Rear Window, Hitchcock)
"Time, you thief" (Leigh Hunt, "Rondeau")
"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times." (Rita Rudner)
"Life's a journey - travel light." (Hugo Boss Perfume)
Distance traveled is to time spent traveling at constant speed, as the circumference is to the diameter of a circle
"Life is a journey. Enjoy the Ride." (Nissan)
"Life is a journey, travel it well." (United Airlines)
Electrostatic force on two charged particles: Square of the space between :: Gravitational force on two objects Square of the space between
If Charlie Parker is the father of modern jazz, who is the mother?
"Fine words butter no parsnips" is a saying about a) Marlon Brando b) Mavis from Coronation Street c) Nick Clegg's election campaign
Electrostatic force on two charged particles : Product of the charges :: Gravitational force on two objects : Product of the masses
A person is just a gene's way of making another gene. A scholar is just a library's way of making another library. (Craig Lee Burket)
"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree" is a saying about a) gravity b) nepotism c) Prince Harry d) squirrels?
In music, the relationship of frequency to wavelength is the same as the volume to the amount of homework done
Every man's judgement is a lamp to himself (Carlyle)
"Love is the wild card of existence." (Rita Mae Brown, In Her Day)
Distance between two points on a map : Distance between locations represented :: Extension of a spring : Load applied to it
Adam Smith's principle of specialisation of labour inspired Charles Darwin's principle of diversification of species
"She was as the hook on which the ladder of my hopes was fixed" (Goethe)
Gun : Russian Roulette : : Rough : Fun Love (Poker face, Lady Gaga, 2009)
'The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.' Milan Kundera/The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Extracting truth from philosophy is like carving a Diana from a block of marble (Descartes)
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease is a saying about a) Olivia Newton John b) Recognition and bonuses c) BP's safety process
"What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander" is a saying about a) cookery b) birds c) fairness d) superinjunctions
Trendeh paulie fenty by justknecht #GeordieShore is the Primark version of Jersey Shore.
Snooki is to literature as Barney Frank is to elocution
Snooki is to 'Jersey Shore' as _____ is to 'Survivor'
Snooki is to intelligent culture as a) Jeremy Clarkson is to climate change b) Glen Beck is to journalism c.) Ryan Giggs is to feminism
Snooki is to higher education as hot is to: A. cold B. freezing C. frozen D. insert your own superlative/punchline here
O Freunde, nicht diese Töne
You can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
You can't have your cake and eat it
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
The darkest hour is just before the dawn
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
Still waters run deep
Shrouds have no pockets
It is not one swalowe that bryngeth in somer. It is not one good qualitie that maketh a man good. (Erasmus, trans. Richard Taverner, 1539)
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease
Fine words butter no parsnips
Blood is thicker than water
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
Legal ethics is to ethics as Ayn Rand is to philosophy (Eugene Volokh)
Ian Holloway is Priam to Alex Ferguson's Agamemnon, and Dudley Campbell is Hector to Dimitar Berbatov's Achilles
The team that Ian Holloway has are football's shock troops (Jimmy Armfield)
Bathyllus was the Diaghilev of the Roman Imperial ballet (Juvenal Satire VI, trans Peter Green)
Taslima Nasrin - the Salman Rushdie of Bangladesh?
So help me out here - is there a Chinese Dostoyevsky, still untranslated and undiscovered by the west?
If singing birds must sing with no question of choice/ Living is our song indeed our voice/Best agree you and me we're probably nightingales
And the suitors mad with fear/ at Athena's shield stampeded like stung cattle by a river/ when the shimmering gadfly strikes in summertime.
Just as the Cyclops hurled rocks at Odysseus’ boat but missed, so the Citizen hurled a biscuit tin at Bloom’s cab but missed.
Who is to your favourite city as Gaudi is to Barcelona? What is their Casa Battlo? And their Sagrada Familia?
RhetoricJams Rhetoric by justknecht If glitter is the herpes of arts and crafts, emoticons are the gonorrhea of the internet. Some people just put 'em everywhere.
imogen thomas is to _________ as _________ is to _________ ("superinjunctions")
The happiness of love is a shooting meteor; the pain of love is the darkness following. (Yiyun Li)
Strauss-Kahn's perceptions of personal risk, entitlement, status and power are analogous to IMF policies of "structural adjustment"
Glee is to Fleetwood Mac as ______ is to ______?
division is to quotient as addition is to ____ ?
The floreio is to capoeira as the hyperbole is to a debate. http://mandingueira.com/2008/10/24/
#Eurovision song is to song as military intelligence is to intelligence
"Family Guy" is to "The Simpsons" as "Charmed" is to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (AladinSane - www.fark.com)
As Da Vinci is to art, Meryl Streep is to acting, Jimi Hendrix is to the guitar, Laura Mercier is to makeup... weheartthis.com/2009/02/
Air drumming is to air guitar as fool's gold is to bullion (Kriston Rucker)
the rhythm method is to contraception as _____ is to _____
Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon is to Milton's Paradise Lost, as London's St Pancras Station is to Westminster Abbey.
“Bid” is to “estimate” as “getting wife flowers” is to “maybe thinking about getting wife flowers.” http://www.dwell.com
“Having a contract” with a builder is to “not having a contract” as “family planning” is to “beer bong.”
Family planning is to women's health, as immunisation is to child survival: it can prevent around a third of maternal deaths.
Arithmetic is to Music as Geometry is to Astronomy (Archytas) http://tiny.cc/beadgame
"Classical-style" is to music as "Persian style" is to carpeting http://www.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?PostID=4456079
"Postmodernism is to architecture as female impersonation is to femininity." — Reyner Banham.
“Place is to architecture as meaning is to language" www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/49041.html
“Intelligent design is to biology as numerology is to algebra.” http://tiny.cc/zs0gm
Flower is to Petal as _______ is to Arm. 1. Hand 2. Weapon 3. Law 4. Body http://tiny.cc/y9htt
_______ is to Dumb as Light is to Blind. 1. Voice 2. Language 3. Speech 4. Tongue http://tiny.cc/y9htt
Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex (Karl Marx) http://tiny.cc/cda2r
Marx is to society as Newton is to matter. http://tiny.cc/em0n8
For Zizek, St. Paul is to Jesus as Lenin is to Marx http://tiny.cc/d173d
The MONIAC (an analog computer) used the flow of water in its pipes as an analog to the flow of money in an economy. http://tiny.cc/4ef2v
drive: drove :: dive : ____ http://tiny.cc/nnnvd
HAND : PALM : : FOOT : ____ http://tiny.cc/nnnvd
gravity is to (einstein, the pantheon in rome or led zeppelin) as the weight of water is to (the hoover dam, the yellow submarine or rain)?
marcus garvey is to (haile selassie, formula one, or designer handbags) as john the baptist is to (camel hair coats, jesus or aquatics)?
pip is to (squeak, orange or red) as stone is to (plumb, pebble or plum)? http://tiny.cc/aifvc
'The orchestra change alloted partners within colouristic groups and have their own solo spots like a corps de ballet' http://tiny.cc/rx1bb
One Direction are the new...JLS, Spice Girls, Take That, Monkees, Beatles, UK Lib-Con coalition government, handpicked US Navy Seals team..?
Zizek does for philosophy what Karen Bali's "art of hiding vegetables" does for food. http://tiny.cc/v4zds
@cteditions Zizek is the David Blunkett of cultural theory - he gets his point over regardless of whether the underlying facts hold up ...
O science! Where are your angels? And more - where are your demons?
What do Slavoj Zizek and David Blunkett have in common (apart from the beard, leftist politics and tendency to 'factual selectivity')?
Zizek at the London ICA: 'What is to imbecile, as balance is to imbalance?;
Nick Griffin is the new... Susan Boyle (http://tiny.cc/56ihz), Doctor Who (http://twitpic.com/n02n2), or Hitler (http://tiny.cc/l212v)?
O science, where are your altarpieces, anthems and angels?
@openned Petrarch won Eurovision in 1341? Boccaccio must've been gutted not to make the final. So who was the UK entry? http://tiny.cc/sa2gt
@cteditions Zizek knows 24 from wikipedia, also probably Black Swan and The Kings Speech - a bit like an RC priest's views on marriage? .
O science, where are your saints, martyrs and miracles?
If truth were a woman, where would she shop for shoes, and how many pairs would she need?
Who is the new Audrey Hepburn - Suri Cruise, Carey Mulligan, Natalie Portman, Victoria Justice, Katie Holmes...?
Vin Diesel is the next Sylvester Stallone and The Rock is the next Arnold Schwarzenegger. http://tiny.cc/d8pv6
Zizek: "No film shows a man failing to balance career and private life, as Black Swan and other 'reactionary' films show women." True ..?
In his ability to extract timeless wisdom from pop culture, Zizek is the Jim Royle of philosophy ...
Dunstable remains as if anonymous, like a cathedral architect, or a carver of wooden miserichords or limner of manuscripts. Virgin Classics.
@Math_Bits A musical approach: a GM divides equally in music (e.g. c-f#-c), but an AM has a larger first interval (e.g. c-g-c). So GM < AM.
NewYorker The New Yorker by justknecht Steve Coll: "Pakistan is currently the A.I.G. of nation-states" http://nyr.kr/lBEkju
Alder older. Plumbed adepter. Alter lead lud lon. Alys alit. A sewer sower. Werna fearn. A saturn turner.
Glass in hand, cooking pancetta, funghi and chianti risotto to Verdi's Rigoletto just feels right. What's right for Bach's B Minor Mass?
hannescoghe Hannes Coghe by justknecht David Garret is the new André Rieu.
RD_FreShrdenyaL Ree$e! by justknecht Quarter tank is the NEW Full tank!
Orbette LCLC by justknecht Huw Edwards is the new Gok Wan.
Alexander McQueen the Jimi Hendrix of fashion (http://tiny.cc/GBG_Tweet)? Sorry but his #RoyalWedding dress franchise is the Elton John...
#RoyalWedding The Cosmati Pavement's four Elements mean 'worldly power'. And look up! Pentagonal windows mean 'heaven'! http://tiny.cc/1bbze
Plato was the Beethoven of philosophy. (Prof Albert Cook) http://tiny.cc/xp3ac
Now, with a quick and clever boy to whip me, I’m whirling like a top across the flags. Tibullus I i.
newscientist New Scientist by justknecht - The universe's first stars were whirling dervishes http://bit.ly/jLqoAC
joejonas joe jonas by justknecht - @AlexanderNoyes #tightfade is the new #bowlcut
Vitellozzo Vegetable Man. by justknecht - Battaglia is the new Peppe Quintale
Ray__Bann a lot of stuff by justknecht - 20 dollars is the new 5 with gas
thedaveywavey Davey Wavey by justknecht - I think pale is the new tan.
FreddyAmazin Freddy Cabrales by justknecht - i dont have a facebook" is the new "i dont own a tv."
site_gallery Site Gallery by justknecht - Rotherham Is The New Berlin T-shirts are selling like hot cakes. More on their way as fast as @articlemagazine 's little legs can carry them
cheapcurts Cheap Curts by justknecht - Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. - Joe Paterno
cheapcurts Cheap Curts by justknecht - The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. Bill Gates
@TimeOutLondon @TimeOutFilm Who is the British Johnny Depp?
@TimeOutLondon @TimeOutFilm Is 'Withnail and I' justifiably called the British 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'?
Why are William and Kate like Manchester United?
JohnDeVore John DeVore by justknecht - For an American to understand why the marriage of William and Kate is important in England, imagine Charlie Sheen marrying Lindsay Lohan
Thus does the moon remain a window for the night, For our looks dare not cross their enchanted forest. (Abdo Wazen)
In love, I'm both captain and private: trumpets and flags, away, bear your gashes to greedier men, and your gains!
A trophy myself, I am bound in the chains of a beauty. I sit like a doorman in front of her obstinate doors. Tib.
Be this that purest star, radiant above the flush of crimson wings, That to our loves a new aurora brings. Tibullus
The discovery of America had as much effect on Courtier poets as the discovery of an asteroid had on Swinburne.
The old dealt with the siege of Troy; the new attempts to express the emotions of a boy fishing. (Chesterton, in Hulme)
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the foolish daughter of a very wise mother. (Voltaire)
Mephistopheles came for Faust at Easter. Twitter came for me!
In fact, isn't value more like energy (i.e. conserved/transferred rather than created)?
Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel are 'a kind of English Winterreise' (M Kennedy). Is there a pop music Winterreise?
The Hebrews' lament in Nabucco vs. contemporary Italian yearning for freedom. What's an artistic or literary equivalent?
Herschel discovering Uranus, Balboa sighting the Pacific, and Keats' feeling on first looking into Chapman's Homer
Coll coppiced corylus,/ Caduceus, twin snakes sun.
What would the sign of mercury (the planet, metal, god) signify on the axis of I Ching, architecture, or music?
'So plant your vines in perfect symmetry, like ranks of armies ready on the plain.' (Virgil, Georgics, C.DayLewis)
'Bees lift wee stones as ballast/ just as dinghies do to weather cloud-tossed solitudes.' (Virgil, Georgics, CDL)
#Jesus is another version of the ancient Sun God, and #Easter is the ancient Eostre festival of the dawn goddess.
Zeus's defeat of Typhon is an early prototype of St George's defeat of the Dragon in Christian mythology.
If Dave Gahan, Marilyn Manson, or Johnny Cash aren't Your Own Personal Jesus, then who is, this #Easter?
The blue smoke leaps/ like swirling clouds of birds vanishing./ So my love leaps towards you/ vanishes and is renewed. (R Aldington)
'As spring is sweeter than winter, as apple than sloe; so hast thou gladdened me with thy coming' Theocritus XII.
Is there an architectural equivalent of the perfect cadence (dominant to tonic) in music?
The dodecahedron is to the isocahedron as the irregular pentagon "Cairo" tessellation is to a 3.3.4.3.4 tiling.
'Tonal music is to serial music as gravitation and attraction are to the perpetually expanding universe' (Boulez)
If Scott Walker is the Jesus of pop music, where are the fragments of his true cross?
If Scott Walker is the Jesus of pop music, when was his Good Friday?
What are the equivalent of the 'fragments of the true cross' in the context of scientific method?
If Richard Dawkins is the Pope of scientific method, who is its 'truthteller'?
If Dan Brown is the 'truthteller' of Christianity, who is the 'truthteller' of artistic praxis?
If Dan Brown is the 'truthteller' of Christianity, who is the 'truthteller' of scientific method?
What results in Quakerism stand as Einstein’s results on Relativity stand to Galileo’s on the same?
Who are the Moses, Jesus and George Fox of scientific method?
What in the exploration of America was equivalent to the discovery of the first pulsar?
Is there a Leif Ericson, and a Hernán Cortés of astronomy? What are astronomy’s Aztec treasures?
Who's the Jimi Hendrix of fashion, and what is their Purple Haze?
Is there an equivalent of Grimm's Law in Chinese?
If Marvin Gaye was the Jesus of R&B, what was his Sermon on the Mount?
Why was Constable the Wordsworth of art, and not Turner?
Heston Blumenthal or Ferran Adrià might be the J.H.Prynne of cookery, but who is the Prynne of dance or warfare?
What is the equivalent of sonata form in architecture?
What metal is to iron as the hazel tree is to holly?
Who is to Prince as Lady Gaga is to Madonna?
Who is the Napoleon of football, and what was his Waterloo?
If the solar year in astronomy is like the octave in music, what is the musical equivalent of the lunar month?