Numerous Other Others

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Cocteau:
From our birth to our death we are a procession of Others. We are always Others.

Plurality of Worlds, 1686, Fontenelle after Descartes *:

Cocteau:
"I am only an intermediary. A medium. A laborer. All poets are merely mediums and laborers working for this mysterious force that inhabits us. That is why I have some difficulty in talking to you about me.

I am not boasting. do not want to speak of inspiration."

"Inspiration is not a thing that descends upon us from heaven. It might better be called expiration. It is something that rises from our depths, from the world of our night."

 
"In short, the poet tries to put his night world out on the table; he serves sometimes awkwardly-this Self, and this Self is sometimes ill-tempered over being ill-served. Thus it is that the self which is trying to speak to you now out of my mouth may not be my Self at all."

Art & Language – "Born In Flames" *

Diatoms under microscope (small worlds)
“Diatoms are algae that live in houses made of glass” *

Cocteau:
"Obviously, I should like the image of me that you take with you to be the image of that Other, of those numerous other Others I have been.

Of this mysterious Other who inhabits me. should not wish you to remember me, or rather this "I" who is speaking to you, but the I who dwells in the shadows, in my shadows, and that has been expressed with great lack of control, for I say to you again, control is very dangerous. Faults are the true expression of the individual."

Descartes, Theory of Vortices, 17th c:

In Descartes' cosmology, each star lies at the center of a "vortex,'" or gigantic pool of circulating fluid. Stars and vortices are mortal, passing into and out of existence. As a star like the Sun becomes encrusted with sunspots, it changes into a comet and wanders from vortex to vortex, visiting other solar systems. Then, with further encrustations, it develops into an Earthlike planet, complete with mountains, oceans and minerals. As a leading proponent of the mechanical philosophy, Descartes sought to explain all of nature, including gravity and magnetism, by reference only to matter and motion, rather than appealing to hidden forces.

Cocteau:
"It is evident that nothing Descartes says stands up, yet Descartes remains Descartes because he is a great writer."

Desargues' projective geometry:

Dragonfly-Eye:
The aim is to see things from all points of view.

"Desargues marks the moment when, in the words of Erwin Panofsky, "perspective, replacing for the first time the single Euclidean visual cone' with the universal 'geometrical beam, abstracted itself completely from the line of sight and thus opened up all spatial directions equally."

Mallarmé:
Prismatic subdivisions of the Idea, the instant they appear, and as long as they last. *

Koichi Sato, 1998: