“Only entropy comes easy.” - Anton Chekhov (c.1900); also stated by Lewis Mumford (1970)
“You should call it entropy, because nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.” -  John Neumann (c.1939), suggestion to Claude Shannon on what to call his new formula for information
“Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.” -  Vaclav Havel (1986), Czech playwright
Source: EOHT
Posted: 2026 Jan 10
Yay Ivan! I think this quest is fascinating, but I seem to be very poor at doing it – some perceptual deficiency? who knows, but I like seeing your photos of them.
Alison – It took me a long time to see my first face, and I still go for long periods without seeing any. And then I’ll see three in three days. Dunno how that works.
Isabel – and once you’ve seen a ‘face’ such as you’ve captured in a picture, is it ever possible to un-see that ‘face’?
John – No, not really. It’s like the images that can be seen in two ways. Hard, sometimes, to see the first after your perception has flipped foreground/background, or whatever it is, to see the second.
The face that looks towards the future…
Barbara – And that glances over its shoulder every so often, to see what might be gaining on it. 🙂 https://www.traditionaliconoclast.com/20190128_093241/