After-Orts #17
- spectacular underwater photography -
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/02/winners-2021-underwater-photographer-year-contest/617963/
- How Ludwig Wittgenstein came to write a dictionary for elementary school students -
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/guard-against-confusion
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- Melothesia -
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_astrology says: Medical astrology (traditionally known as iatromathematics) is an ancient applied branch of astrology based mostly on melothesia (Gr. μελοθεσία), the association of various parts of the body, diseases, and drugs with the nature of the sun, moon, planets, and the twelve astrological signs.
Brittanica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Matthew-Locke says: [English composer] Matthew Locke's treatise Melothesia (1673) was one of the earliest English works to deal with “Certain General Rules for playing upon a Continued Bass.”
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[New York] is really a marvelous city, rich, exciting, unlimited in range and depth—as London is; although the two cities are profoundly different. New York is punctate, scintillating, the way all cities look from a plane at night: it is a mosaic of qualities and people and dates and styles, a sort of enormous urban jigsaw. Whereas London has much the quality of an evolved city, the present like a transparency overlying the wafers of the past, layer on layer, extended in time. . .
— Oliver Sacks, On the Move