Luxo Jr., 1986

'"I was the only guy at Pixar who was an artist, so I bonded with Steve over his design sense," Lasseter said. He was a gregarious, playful, and huggable man who wore flowery Hawaiian shirts, kept his office cluttered with vintage toys, and loved cheeseburgers. Jobs was a prickly, whip-thin vegetarian who favored austere and uncluttered surroundings. But they were actually well-suited for each other. Lasseter was an artist, so Jobs treated him deferentially, and Lasseter viewed Jobs, correctly, as a patron who could appreciate artistry and knew how it could be interwoven with technology and commerce. '

Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs, 2011

Glenn Gould

I think that some of the appeal that Toronto has for me is gained by default, so to speak. I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence, mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colours of any kind depress me, in fact, and my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky on any given day. As a matter of fact, my private motto has always been: 'behind every silver lining there is a cloud', so I schedule my errands for as late in an hour as possible, and I tend to emerge along with the bats and racoons, at twilight.


Glen Gould - 2:45 - 3:20

prajñā

Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western world, as well as its capacity for rational thought. If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.

- Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson - 'Atari and India' Steve Jobs, 2011

II. The Dark Times

Anyone who cannot cope with life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate ... but with his other hand he can jot down what he sees among the ruins, for he sees different and more things than the others; after all, he is dead in his own lifetime and the real survivor.

Franz Kafka - Diaries, Entry of Oct 29, 1921

The Pale King

The glitter of dew that stays where it is and steams all day. A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid as toys. All nodding. Electric sounds of insects at their business. Ale-colored sunshine and pale sky and whorls of cirrus so high they cast no shadow. Insects all business all the time. Quartz and chert and schist and chondrite iron scabs in granite. Very old land. Look around you. The horizon trembling, shapeless. We are all of us brothers.

David Foster Wallace

strange comfort

to be looked upon fully and disappear completely, to be regarded rather than understood, to be seen straight on and able to have myself to myself, invisible and blinding - what a different scope from the orbit of twin planets whose identical gravity keep each other at bay, abreast, apart, looking sideways in sharp clarity of the improbable, elusive other.

which is the vision of one adored, understood, and alone, in whole and in pieces? (∞)

Α: a vague myth, a pagan worship, amoebic contented bows before the Giant Eye, assured
Ω: sharp, clear, rendered, fully understood and without, to chase

AND THE ANSWER IS!

(Ο)

(hint: together, form a circle, both, one and none)