the plane-filling motifs

"The Plane-Filling Motifs," March 14, 2022 (#73)

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut (1999)

God Bless America: Stories by Steve Almond (2011)

Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz (2004)

last line from Escher on Escher: Exploring the Infinite by M.C. Escher (1989)

The Plane-Filling Motifs

To order as many movies as I want

had somehow encapsulated the full horror of the most hideous legal

sample cases raised above their heads. The new one stands

in the hope that it would earn a little bit of money--not for

some undiscriminating listeners. That was the message.

I found they'd been packed in popcorn, real popcorn. Some

spoke to you earlier about traditions. We are a family with traditions. In the old days

I at least remembered to ask Saint Peter if Shakespeare had written Shakespeare.

They had to have him. He sat on the carpet knocking one block against another,

learned his parts by spending time among stevedores and roustabouts and

would be blasphemous, like juggling the bones of dead relatives

made of trail mix, of crushed cashews and Granola and raisins, soaked in

beer. "Okay, we're all done here, folks. The good doctor is all done pretending."

This is your tongue-tied, humiliated, self-loathing, semi-literate

strip of paper on which "Metamorphose" is portrayed.

3-14-22, Trenton Doyle Hancock "Mind of the Mound" piece at the MFAH

3-14-22 Virtual Realities: The Art of M.C. Escher exhibit at the MFAH

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