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Seeing The Mona Lisa Is Like A Mosh Pit?

a: Seeing the mona lisa ~
b: standing just before the stage at a gig

What: "Seeing the Mona Lisa is like standing just before the stage at a gig, swept back and forth by the crowd and fighting to get close enough to get a glimpse. Dan Brown Tom Hanks and Ron Howard got to film here at night, and were allowed to wander through the rooms at will while making The Da Vinci Code movie. I envy them."

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Writer: Mark Chadbourn
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Dec 8 2011 7:06 PM


Eraserhead As Post Modern Mind

a: Eraserhead ~
b: the post modern mind

What: This movie, which I can't understand, seems to resonate with many film school types. But the question is, what the hell is it about? For one, it's not to be taken literally. If not literal, what does it represent? Maybe it's the post-modern mind. If this is true, the post modern mind is black and white, confused, noisy, irrational, confining and dark. What else is there to say? Oh yeah there is no post modern mind, but maybe there are post modern minds, many minds with many types. So, Eraserhead would be David Lynche's post modern mind. Which is distinct from everyone else's post modern mind. He just happened to define it in this film. If this is true, I understand why Roger Ebert doesn't like this film. It is utterly incoherent, by design.

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Writer: LucretiaGooGoo
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Date: Apr 17 2012 5:30 PM


Off And On And On And Off......

a: Glycogen ~
b: storage battery

What: "Glycogen is like a storage battery - charged when glucose is in excess - discharged when glucose needed (fasting or exercise) - Glycogen present as β particles, ~30 nm diameter with up to 60,000 glucose units"

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Writer: Les Lane
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Date: May 8 2013 10:55 AM



a: monad ~
b: a soul or an atom

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" Leibniz is supposed to help provide answers to these questions. His philosophy revolves around the concept of monads, a term drawn from calculus indicating something irreducible and individual. A monad is like a soul or an atom, except that it contains within itself all ideas about the external world, including the relationships between objects on the time and space continuum, including itself. Harvey singles out the following passage from Leibniz's writings presumably because it speaks to his quandary at the Oxford Rover plant."


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Writer: Louis Proyect
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Date: Apr 10 2014 8:41 PM



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