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»eunoia« by christian bök (+)

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the word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in english that contains all five vowels. directly inspired by the oulipo (l’ouvroir de littérature potentielle), a french writers’ group interested in experimenting with different forms of literary constraint, eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram – the first chapter has a as its only vowel, the second chapter e, etc. each vowel takes on a distinct personality: the i is egotistical and romantic, the o jocular and obscene, the e elegiac and epic.

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Portrait of Virginia Woolf – born 131 years ago today – by Roger Fry, 1917.

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An enthusiasm for logic and number might overwhelm the ability to make good judgements, and form clear arguments. Today ‘economic’ argument prevails everywhere over political or ethical argument, but the sense of ‘economy’ this implies is a remarkably attenuated and impoverished one: it’s meaning has been cheapened.

Keith Tribe, The Economy of the Word (via oupacademic)

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...without at least an elementary instruction in mathematics and science, man will remain a stranger in this world, a stranger in the culture that supports him.”

Ernst Mach, en Sigmund, Karl. Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science (pp. 19-20).

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