2026.02.22
Is Duchamp After Unbekannt now the unwitting Vol. 3?
Probably like a week ago is when I again newly read the following in Duboy's Lequeu: An Architectural Enigma: "This drawing might well be retitled l'apprenti en cyclopède (apprentice on a bicycle / encycolpede). His road is indicated by a capital L, Lequeu's initial which he often used as a signature. Lebel's far-fetched commentary refers us at once to Lequeu's technique of mesures rapprochées: his 'how I wrote certain of my works', the 'Explication très forcée pour imiter (aussi) de ses compagnons d'art, mais de bien loin, chacun faisant comme il lui plait son personnage industrieux' (Far-fetched explanation to imitate (also) his fellow artists, but at a far remove, each one playing his industrious part as he pleases). We find the same recipes once again in this 1914 Box: 'the idea of fabrication' and its deliberate deformation, an 'approximate reconstitution', the concept of remoteness ('de bien loin'), the period of conception of works during an illness
or 'if I suppose I'm suffering a lot' and, to conclude, Duchamp's On n'a que pour femelle la pissotière et on en vit, with its play on tail (on vit, one lives/le vit or la queue, prick: Lequeu!). 'We've no female but the piss-house, and we'll stand
by that.'"
A couple days after that I went to see what Lebel's "far-fetched commentary" might be--the used, first edition of Lebel's Marcel Duchamp which I purchased via eBay earlier this year arrived with a strong musty odor, so it's been sitting open in the garage for an airing-out, meaning I haven't read the book yet. Lebel's only commentary on avoir l'apprenti dans le soleil is as follows: "This drawing, according to Duchamp, belongs to a period of his life when he glued together 'bits of different arts (e.g., writing and drawing) with no connection to each other (or at least as little as possible)'." Okay, I guess, but its actually Duchamp's commentary, not Lebel's.
Anyway, in the midst of this 'comparative research', I noticed the cloth-cover-color of each book is virtually identical, and(!), each book is likewise identical in size. So, today, I made record of these similarities, and more.
     
At this point, it is hard to deny that Duboy fully intended Lequeu: An Architectural Enigma as a/the rightful follow-up to Lebel's Marcel Duchamp, i.e., rightful in that Duboy knew about Étant donnés where as Lebel did not. Unfortunately for both authors, however, neither knew the French history of Marshall "Major" Taylor, The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World. Hence, the unwitting Vol. 3.
2023.02.22
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
22 February 2023 Wednesday
Ichnographia Campus Martius Tab. VII second state plan of the Roman Forum and the Circus Maximus second state
Morning good jokes, then demolition squad drama, "Will there be severed parts?" Then an unavoidable deflation; lying in long stillness the best cure. All in Miers Fisher's quondam back garden.
"It's the art work that's giving you the nightmares."
"No. . .it's your face."
Is the present day intellectual architectural hierarchy still most fearful of leaving the proverbial ivory tower behind, and hence, unable to see actual historical changes (of the narrative) happening right in front of their eyes?
I got Perspecta 6 off the shelf and was quite surprised to see what Tafuri described as "not by chance was a whole number of Perspecta taken up by the Villa Adriana." Looking at everything in Perspecta 6 along with lots of reading, it became easy to see why Tafuri wrote such a lie: he didn't know, and hence didn't want anyone else to know, that an enemy's territory could be so globally diverse.
2005.02.22
[the making of my Rita Novel idea] for real
"In a Theater, Seeking Insights on Urban Planning" www.nytimes.com
now read 1421b.htm
Obviously, they don't know Le Corbusier is really staying at Cape May Point and busy writing "Promenade Architecturale" for the Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club Convention.
Anyway, Happy Birthday Luis Buñuel and Happy Deathday Andy Warhol. They're still in Philadelphia since attending St. Catherine de Ricci's, Louis I. Kahn's and Albert C. Barnes' "The Bilocating Barnes Foundation" as presented on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway 13 February 2005. Besides, who can resist being around Dalí these daze?
Does anyone still remember "Steve's Acropolis" as presented early 1999 within schizophrenia + architectures at www.quondam.com? Well, it turns out that "Steve's Acropolis" (a group of experimental architectures poised on a hill) fits near perfectly on the future site of the Barnes Foundation along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Eutropia is presently getting a real kick out of reminding everyone that she's a Syrian!
Re: what kind of mf forum is this? Unbekannt
Happy Birthday Luis Buñuel and Happy Deathday Andy Warhol.
That's exactly what kind of forum this is!
The kind of people that simply die to have a party.
Re: The Paper Wall by Nick and Sheila Pye Unbekannt
Eutropia is a Syrian, you know.
Re: The Paper Wall by Nick and Sheila Pye Unbekannt
The (second) wife of Maximian
The mother of Theodora
The mother of Maxentius
The mother of Fausta
The mother-in-law of Constantius (the father of Constantine)
The mother-in-law of Constantine
The grandmother of the five children of Constantius and Theodora
The grandmother of the five children of Constantine and Fausta
The best friend of Flavia Julia Helena Augusta
The person responsible for the building of the first Christian church at the Oak of Mamre
recent discoveries[, even]
2004.02.22
Re: WTC question
Is any architectural project ever "all said and done?"
For example, look at the 'development' of Independence Mall in Philadelphia. The mid-1940's to the mid-1960's is when this area was erased of what was there, and newly designed as a 'national park.' In the 1990s, the design of this park was deemed unsuccessful, if not outright bad. Since 1998, this area is under reconstruction. From my perspective, this ongoing metabolic (i.e., creative/destructive) pattern is a completely apt representation of what the USA is (design wise, at least) all about.
2003.02.22
apostasy is only half the story
So now we have Barney elaborately reenacting the raising and lowering of testicles. Given the corporal territory, Barney no doubt plays a lot with the (chronosomatically defined?) fertile imagination. Greenaway also utilizes the fertile imagination, although much more assimilatingly and metabolically. Is Barney perhaps exhibiting /manifesting a pre-natal fertile imagination? Chronosomatically, that is indeed a possibility. Given the female body and it's role in embryonic development, the present 'plane of the present' slices through a female that is approximately five months pregnant. And given that around now is when a developing fetus reverses position from head up to head down, there might just be some developing testicles within the slice of our time, and maybe that's where Barney is chronosomatically (speaking).
latest chronosomatic note (yet to be numbered):
In terms of the present pregnancy within the female body, there may well be twins developing, one male and one female. Since the ultimate birth of the current pregnancy will correspond with a "second birth" (ref. Eliade), the notion of a forthcoming male/female pair of twins (rightly?) contrasts the primordial male/male (metabolic) twins of creation myths.
1993.02.22
 
93022201.db Corbu Collage
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