@JapanTraCul Let the world be read: grammar in paper and ink—Hiroshi’s blocks, Hergé’s pen. What travels is sense, not sightseeing: one liturgy in a thousand accents and forms. Call it the first dance we half remember, set in grain and line, sent like bread for the world.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Alexander Jabbari @yakabikaj Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Alexander Jabbari Sep9,2023 caption above artwork only. Exact original tweet ID not supplied; do not assign Riexinger's ID to Jabbari. Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1962270667229045120 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 1931 woodblock print of Delhi's Jama Masjid by Japanese artist Yoshida Hiroshi Retained uncertainty: ["Known gap S007. Pointer names reply rather than top caption. Artwork retained."]
Open original document@y_marriex @yakabikaj "Horses and elephants pull at the word of command. But the wise man understands even what is unsaid; the enlightened, the full content of what has been communicated only by a hint. There are meanings immanent and causative in verbal and visual symbols." - A.K. Coomaraswamy
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Cartoon of Tintin and Captain Haddock in New Delhi at the site of the Qutb Minar minaret in Delhi's oldest fortified city. And another image of them chatting with locals at the site of the Red Fort.
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Copy of two post thread: 1/ A.K. Coomaraswamy: "In the night of Brahman nature is inert and cannot dance until Shiva wills it. He rises from His rapture and, dancing, sends through inert matter pulsing waves of awakening sound; and lo! Matter also dances, appearing as a glory round about him...” 2/ “... Dancing, he sustains its manifold phenomena. In the fullness of time, still dancing, he destroys all forms and names by fire and gives new rest.”
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Cartoon image of Tintin's dog Snowy looking nervous in front of statue of Nataraja attended by sword-wielding devotee.