Posted by JenStar on August 26, 2004, at 12:21:38
In reply to Re: poem ... Bob to Register Three » malthus, posted by Atticus on August 26, 2004, at 4:24:03
hi Atticus and all,
I hope you don't mind that I have been lurking here the past few days & reading your poems & works. I don't have any poems of my own to post right now but I enjoy reading yours.This is pretty much off topic, but when I read the comment about Mona Lisa X The Scream -- after laughing -- I remembered this cool NRP talk I heard the other day. Two authors were speaking about art, the brain, and the Mona Lisa.
One author said that there has been scientific (sort of) analysis on the ML done explaining why her smile is so enigmatic. It had to do with direct and peripheral vision, and explained why looking at her head-on does not reveal the smile, but looking at her from an angle does make it seem that she's smiling.
The two authors were Margaret Livingstone who wroteVision and Art. The Biology of Seeing
and Bulent Atalay, who wrote Math and the Mona Lisa.
They both seemed really interesting, and I plan to see if the local libe had them (would love to buy them, but I'm over my montly book expense limit!)
Thanks for giving your motivations and hidden messages in the poem. It's always fun to re-read a poem once I know some 'inside info' from the author!
JenStar
JenStar
> Hi Malthus,
> You're right, I'm definitely playing with a lot of things in this poem. Go back and read the physical description of Bob's face as he shoots me the bemused look upon arriving at the register, then scroll up to the photo in the upper left hand corner at the very top of Writing (or any other Babble page). Read Bob's third plea with the customers without the parenthetical "thought" that's inserted into it. And imagine a guy named Bob who wants to be a doctor. Then I guess people would call him Dr. Bo... Nahhh. Must be a coincidence. Surely. This scene, and the little daydream layered over it, took place when I was visiting my family in Jersey this past weekend, when the register did jam, and a manager named Bob was indeed summoned, and I thought, what if, in some other reality ... Hmmm. 'Nuff said. ;) Atticus, maker of mischief
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