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Black Sun

2019-11-20 · 1,064 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Black Sun — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "Systems seem, like certain worms, to be formed by a kind of generatio aequivoca - by the mere confluence of conceptions
Black Sun — pen and ink drawing

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"Systems seem, like certain worms, to be formed by a kind of generatio aequivoca - by the mere confluence of conceptions, and to gain completeness only with the progress of time." –Immanuel Kant, "The Critique of Pure Reason" (1787).

"When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their covers. The symbol's 'hooks' were left-handed, as opposed to the right-handed ones of the Nazi hakenkreuz, but for a boy growing up after 1945 the shock of encountering the emblem at all was a memorable one. I later learned that in the mid-1930s Kipling had caused this 'signature' to be removed from all his future editions. Having initially…

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