Carpenter's Workshop

I, too, am intrigued to know where this will go. Here are some initial directions (as of Monday, Tuesday and today). Comments & suggestions invited - aka helping a blind man cross the road.

Much tuning required!

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“an abstract feeling of geography and voyaging”
(July 15, 1941 (Tuesday) )

Joseph Cornell

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RECEPTION


afraid in setting out
or waiting for a favourable wind?

here is your passport
your papers are in order

you are passing through customs
there will be duties to pay

crossing the border entails negotiations
we will see what can be arranged

each question demands an answer
we will forward an address

delivery is through another route
the terminus faces both ways

I will take down your statements
we are not in a position to decide

there have been many delays
your claim has been received

here is a map showing where you need to go
someone will show you the way

from here on is anybody’s guess
the ground is rushing below my feet

it is better to have travelled than to arrive
it is better to leave than say goodbye


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CHRISTENING (I)



the world we baptize at a distance
valley crater ocean ridge

the distance travelled from the temple
across the bridge of the nose

each glass is a flower of breath
the word crystallized and transparent

the mind has its partitions
we are cornered in reflection

which cup conceals the ball
is a mystery written in the palm

the mind circumscribed spins threads
a single bead unstrings


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I.

the sun presents. as describe above. the line joining the object to its corresponding. a strip of plane set up vertically. silvered surface stuck so as to be. pins next removed. either side these lines to cut. line by line with the image I. is the direction in which. the present day we have reason to believe. the sun falls on. shows either side the object O. stuck into the paper about. E pins P. pins the eye for accuracy then joined to intersect Y. point to the line its corresponding. incidence and reflection respectively. such that at the tip an eclipse. streams of tiny known as time went atoms. flame by lamp and angles plane. in each case. sun on a sheet. on either side. the oridinary ray a ring of light around. pin on a line of a day in one place. the joining corresponds. the incident i. every angle is equal. light falls lettered. the eye in the image verifiying. lines to cut. noted on a table. object to pointing. infer the mirror earth. the sun as seen. as above so below.

II.

the sun presents. the direction in which. the present day we have reason. E pins P. incidence and reflection. the sun as seen. pins the eye for accuracy then joined. point to the line its corresponding. light falls. the ordinary ray a ring of lights around. pin on a line. the object corresponding. incidence and reflection. eye in the image verifying. shows either side the object O. to intersect. noted on a table. strip of plane set up. stuck into paper about. lines to cut. the sun as described. line by line with the image I. joins the object. intersect as such.


III.

as described above. surface stuck pins next remove. verify. the line joins to its corresponding. strip of incidence. the direction in which. sun on a sheet. E pins the angle in reflection. the object shows. infer the mirror. vertically. either side streams of tiny known. sun as seen. light as lettered. pin in pointing.


IV.

the sun noted on a table. pin. the line joined to intersect Y. remove. a strip O stuck through paper. ring. the present image reflected in pointing. set. the sun respectively such. tip. the joining object X. eclipse. the eye cuts the line.


V.

i.

on the diagram. the line joining through and perpendicular. point on the object. image cuts the mirror. fixed this apparent.


ii.

in the notebook. the line in the diagram. coincides in position. side to side through O. in the window. joining point to object. one moves with the eye.

iii.

of the face situated apparently. object letter E. of the image stuck onto paper. used through and perpendicular. centre of the sheet. sense so formed. said to be.


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100 % PROOF



we were, of course, already familiar with some of the facts



we placed our eye in some convenient position

we noticed the points P1 and P2 were joined

we disagreed with Sir Isaac Newton

we found i = r

we placed a lamp inside a tin with a small hole in it

we accepted, as time went on, the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)

we inferred that the line joining the object is at right angles

we demonstrated three cardboard screens

we explained with the help of diagrams

we stated the laws



but

we shall learn more in the future