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[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity- Aug. 10 - Historical Society
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Spankit
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 		[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity- Aug. 10 - Historical Society
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Went along to another meeting of the Historical Society yesterday. I seem to have been receiving a lot of emails from you Earth readers about Perplex City history recently, so I thought you'd probably want to hear about any and all research I do. I can understand why you're interested. I have to confess, much as I complain about archiving in the stacks, there's something almost mystical about it, about being able to touch these books that are centuries-old, that perhaps no one else has seen in my lifetime.

So, we had a talk yesterday evening about the ancient belief systems of Perplex City. Fascinating stuff - about the evolution of hunter-gatherer iconic totems into myths of gods and goddesses, and how those beliefs were affected by the development of philosophy and mathematics. The speaker, Dr Aisling, talked a lot about the interest in geometric shapes at that time, in tessellation as a manifestation of the divine order in all things, and compared that to modern cube-based religion. With the growth of interest in non-representational images of god, tessellated patterns were seen as a way to produce holy objects without having to depict a god as a person or animal. She looked at the way that translates to the cubeheads today, who see the Cube as being in some way divine. Really thought-provoking.

Anyway, after the talk, because you guys have been bugging me about it to such an extent, I went and asked her if she knew anything about secret societies in Perplex City, or anything that represented itself with the number three. Fat lot of good that did, though. She said she thought she might have heard about something like that, but couldn't remember anything about it. Still, I have to say, my interest's been piqued on that question - I'll keep digging.


Edit: The tessellations stuff kind of sounds like the Islamic traditiion of making tessellations, since "images" of Allah are forbidden.
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Mosestrotsky
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 		That's our girl, she's back and ready for us to get her into serious trouble again.

Though the history is starting to shape us interestingly

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Violet wrote:
Anyway, after the talk, because you guys have been bugging me about it to such an extent, I went and asked her if she knew anything about secret societies in Perplex City, or anything that represented itself with the number three.


Aw, I only sent her one email about it... Very Happy

(Very glad she's interested and looking now!)
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 		Re: [UPDATE] Quirky Acuity- Aug. 10 - Historical Society
Spankit wrote:
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She said she thought she might have heard about something like that, but couldn't remember anything about it.


Oh, she knows what Violet's talking about. She knows. If crime procedurals on TV have taught me anything - she's run off to her secret society chums and there onto Violet now....

Also...I wonder if the tesselation has anything to do with how we've been arranging the cards together to get another message?

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 		bout damn time!
tho she still managed to pull off an utterly useless non-answer.


It is somewhat unique fFor a god to be developed in this way, I believe. On Earth, our gods are derived either fFrom an image of man, or fFrom an image of man's demise. (fFor example, a man in the woods starts to worship the jaguar because it is the most powerful thing he sees, in the hopes of allying with it, and avoid being eaten). Even Islam, which uses designs to represent Allah, percieves Allah to be vaguely describable as a man. Cubisms roots appear to start and end with god as an abstract concept of shapes and designs.
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zaeil wrote:
Violet wrote:
Anyway, after the talk, because you guys have been bugging me about it to such an extent, .....

Aw, I only sent her one email about it... Very Happy

Oh...I asked about it, too. Count me in as one of the buggers. Laughing

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