Re: As an inveterate waster of time,

On 14/06/2025 00:07, William Hyde wrote:

Don wrote:

Cryptoengineer wrote:

Bobbie Sellers wrote:

Scott Dorsey wrote:

Charles Packer wrote:

Scott Dorsey wrote:

William Hyde wrote:

I read youtube comments now and again.
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"The worst unison. And fascism. Like the hanging Lincoln cursed by
Isaac
Asimov."
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That is a google translation from an Asian language, but what is Dr A
doing there?

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Perhaps he is a symbol of precision and the Philosophy of the
Enlightenment?
That would seem reasonable from someone who knew only his popular
science works and not his SF.

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So what has Lincoln got to do with it?

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Yes, and why "hanging?"
--scott

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      Because it is in a museum or gallery and it is a work by Dali
employing mosaic techniques. You have to stand back to see Lincoln or
use a special lens to view
Lincoln in this work.  It is a painting hanging on a wall or a
lithograph similarly
mounted.
      It may be that the term "cursed" is used because the lithographs
are extensively
forged by profiteers.
      Just from the URL given in an earlier post.
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      bliss

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I think this may be relevant:
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I think this may be relevant:
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https://www.buscalibre.us/libro-dali/9788477000877/p/55043140
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Shows a Spanish book about Dali, with Asimov listed as the author.
Its not in any of the online Asimov bibliographies, but I
wonder if the comment author was referencing it.

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There's a typo in busclaibre's database. A couple of authors named
Torroella and Casado wrote DALI:
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     "Escrito por Rafael Santos Torroella y Maria Jose Casado"
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<https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31806044900>
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The philosophy of Asimov is apparently averse to the abstractions of
surrealism. In my not so humble opinion as a big fan of both Poe and
Uspensky, the latter two would fully embrace Dali without reservation.
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Thank you William. This thread did not waste my time. On the other hand,
your very own mileage may vary.

 Asimov rarely if ever mentions art in his writings.
 If any SF writer who was not himself an artist were to write about Dali, I'd expect it to be J.G. Ballard.

"The Bicentennial Man" is a r- - a synthesized
person who sculpts in wood, and "Gold" is a
story of a semi-fictional science fiction novel
(based on Asimov's _The Gods Themselves_)
adapted as "compu-drama".  Operatic if I'm
remembering correctly.