Béatrice and Nissim de Camondo in 1916.
Observation. Without the death of Nissim in WWI there would have been no Musée Nissim de Camondo. On the death of Moise, in 1935, it was announced that both the house and its collections were not inherited by his daughter Béatrice but bequeathed to the private, non-profit museum of decorative arts: Les Arts Décoratifs. Without the bequeathing all possessions of Hôtel Camondo would have been stolen during WWII. The paintings, furniture, rugs, etc would have been scattered within the nazi-empire and probably partly destroyed, partly relocated beyond recognition, partly still known as such, but in any case never the Gesamtkunstwerk as Moise left it to France. What an irony.
Relationship between some of the Inca architecture - at least four different species are recognized - and corn? Juan Casco (source): "It took me years to realize that Inca and pre-Columbian architecture is directly related to the structure of the corn kernels. In a western model of thought, one could judge the shapes as irregular, but in a universal thought, everything is a correlation of cosmos, science, art and humanity. Fractal nature."
Corinthian, 7th century BC. Slaves working in a mine.
Newspeak. This week I realized why woke people anoy me. I don’t approve racial prejudice, discrimination, social inequality, rape, enslavement etc. What I don't like is the tone, the universal truth they claim to have, the social laws of nature that they finally have uncovered. Finally woken. What a Newspeak. If we look back in history the definition of being politically correct changed so many times. Culturally biased. Historically biased. Planet Earth biased. ... - there must be more biases. What is 100% woke correct today is without any doubt in 2121 not anymore.
P.S. For the next four weeks I'll be offline. Summerholiday. Read a lot. Write a paper. Walk a little.
