JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 985
[Wood-eating woman tells a joke to distract three men sharing the last chair in creation in alternative chairless dot universe.]
Acerbic and punctilious, this work by an anonymous (Ambrose Bierce-like) late 19th-century
cataloger of human-ness attempted to diagramaitcally display the
sharing of humor among people. The resulting images–all unexplained, not indexed, and left to a logical imagination–fit very nicely into a developing section on this blog called Maps and Diagrams of
Imagination and Ideas.
{Woman finger-ingests chair presented to her by knee-connected chair-minions from talking-mustache close-male-pelvis universe.]
In reality this short, small, wordless publication’s images looks like natural philosophy textbook images displaying ideas like momentum and gravity…often they would be quite prosaic, with unnecessary natural accoutrement, little bits of added detail that had nothing really to do with the image displayed. The real intent of this document was to illustrate the center of gravity–it would’ve been more helpful if the publication had a title page or text of any kind for that matter, but since it doesn’t the mind ran free, allowing these representations to be a geometry of shared humor. Which of course they are not–but the images do have a certain coy funniness to them…
[Woman makes wooden point by stabbing Ear-lobed Mustache Man in the heart with her wooden palm finger.]
Some of the other posts that could be included in this Imagining the Imagination category include:
Heaven
{How it would be done if men gave birth.]
{She is smiling. What do the other expression imply?]