Obsession

Obsession

obsession, n: [< Middle French, French obsession (1470 in sense 1, 1590 in sense 2, 1799 in sense 3a, 1866 in sense 3b) and its etymon classical Latin obsessin-, obsessi the action of besieging, a siege < obsess-, past participial stem of obsidre OBSIDE v. + -i -ION1. The word app. became obsolete at the end of the 17th cent. and was revived in the 19th cent. (cf. OBSESS v.).] 1. The action of besieging a place; a siege. Also fig. Obs. 2. The control, actuation, or tormenting of a person from without by an evil spirit; the fact of being so controlled or affected; an instance of this. Now rare. 3. a. An idea, image, or influence which continually fills or troubles the mind; a compulsive interest or preoccupation; the fact or state of being troubled or preoccupied in this way. b. Psychol. A recurrent, intrusive, inappropriate thought, impulse, or image causing significant distress or disturbance to social or occupational functioning; (also) the condition characterized by having such thoughts, impulses, or images. (OED)

Returning -- ruminating -- repetition -- the omission of everything other -- seduction

For an example of obsession, see navigation device below:

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Novelty

Novelty

See AP's chapter "The Ring of Saturn or Some Remarks on Iron Construction" for connection with Jugenstile and this project. Of course, see Jugenstil, etc. Novelty section as well. Connection to Romanticism, the sublime.

Chanson Nouveau

Edmund Burke vs Kant on the sublime: for Kant it's God, for Burke, it's novelty.

Child-like spirit of revolution--

Innovation

Nodes

Nodes

node: 
(1) In networks, a processing location. A node can be a computer or some other device, such as a printer. Every node has a unique network address, sometimes called a Data Link Control (DLC) address or Media Access Control (MAC) address. (2) In tree structures, a point where two or more lines meet. <http://www.webopedia.com/>

Networks

Networks

Navigation

Navigation 

The What Kind of Reader Am I Quiz

Choose one answer for each of the following questions.

1. Lunch is best served 
   from my backpack as I stand alone on a secluded grassy knoll with a panoramic view of nature.
   amidst the din of a heavily populated city at a sidewalk cafe with a view of passing strangers.
   with a bottle of wine, a pack of cigarettes and an entertaining conversationalist.
   with a challenging and reputable book, a mirror, and a writing device.
   at an all-you-can-eat casino buffet with a wad of cash, a nemesis, and a prostitute.
2. On vacation, I prefer to
   visit amusement parks, strip clubs, and bingo halls.
   visit art museums, plays, and fine restaurants in a metropolitan area.
   wander aimlessly on foot through the countryside.
   read, write letters, and remain generally productive.
   lay around sipping frozen drinks while basking in the sun.
3. If I could only keep one of the five senses, it would be: 
   sight
   smell
   hearing
   touch
   taste
4. My dream home would be located in which of the following places: 
   Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
   Amsterdam, Netherlands
   New York, New York, USA
   Paris, France
   Windermere, England
5. I prefer to extract information from the following medium: 
   a flower
   a film
   a book
   a website
   an ingestible substance
6. I agree most with the following statement: 
   I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. 
   Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
   To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. 
   Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
   I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
7. If you received an anonymous invitation to a masquerade ball, you would probably: 
   find out who sent the invite and then engage them in a debate about the proper uses of anonymity.
   go for a little while to take advantage of the free booze.
   skip the ball and go skinny dipping in a moonlit lake instead.
   see it as an opportunity to do some people watching regardless of who might have invited you.
   stay at home and masturbate.
8. If I could be a superhero, I would prefer to have the power to: 
   read people's minds
   see with x-ray vision
   predict the future.
   be transformed into the animal of your choice.
   fly.
9. I prefer to play the following game: 
   quarters
   hide and seek
   charades
   chess
   poker
10. I prefer to read that which:
    renders visible the underlying structures of the human mind.
    expresses the experiences of individuals living in a state of helpless alienation.
    celebrates Nature as a powerful and seductive force separate from humankind.
    transports me to an alternate state of consciousness.
    challenges me with complex linguistic structures and references to the historically obscure. 

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Narcissus

Narcissus

Start with the source: Ovid "The Story of Narcissus" from The Metamorphosis. (Rendered into HTML on Thu Apr 26 15:15:40 2001, by Steve Thomas for The University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection: <http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.
au/aut/ovid.html>)

Thus did the nymphs in vain caress the boy,
He still was lovely, but he still was coy;
When one fair virgin of the slighted train
Thus pray'd the Gods, provok'd by his disdain,
"Oh may he love like me, and love like me in vain!"
Rhamnusia pity'd the neglected fair,
And with just vengeance answer'd to her pray'r.

There stands a fountain in a darksom wood,
Nor stain'd with falling leaves nor rising mud;
Untroubled by the breath of winds it rests,
Unsully'd by the touch of men or beasts;
High bow'rs of shady trees above it grow,
And rising grass and chearful greens below.
Pleas'd with the form and coolness of the place,
And over–heated by the morning chace,
Narcissus on the grassie verdure lyes:
But whilst within the chrystal fount he tries
To quench his heat, he feels new heats arise.
For as his own bright image he survey'd,
He fell in love with the fantastick shade;
And o'er the fair resemblance hung unmov'd,
Nor knew, fond youth! it was himself he lov'd.
The well–turn'd neck and shoulders he descries,
The spacious forehead, and the sparkling eyes;
The hands that Bacchus might not scorn to show,
And hair that round Apollo's head might flow;
With all the purple youthfulness of face,
That gently blushes in the wat'ry glass.
By his own flames consum'd the lover lyes,
And gives himself the wound by which he dies.
To the cold water oft he joins his lips,
Oft catching at the beauteous shade he dips
His arms, as often from himself he slips.
Nor knows he who it is his arms pursue
With eager clasps, but loves he knows not who.

What could, fond youth, this helpless passion move?
What kindled in thee this unpity'd love?
Thy own warm blush within the water glows,
With thee the colour'd shadow comes and goes,
Its empty being on thy self relies;
Step thou aside, and the frail charmer dies.

Still o'er the fountain's wat'ry gleam he stood,
Mindless of sleep, and negligent of food;
Still view'd his face, and languish'd as he view'd.
At length he rais'd his head, and thus began
To vent his griefs, and tell the woods his pain.
"You trees," says he, "and thou surrounding grove,
Who oft have been the kindly scenes of love,
Tell me, if e'er within your shades did lye
A youth so tortur'd, so perplex'd as I?
I, who before me see the charming fair,
Whilst there he stands, and yet he stands not there:
In such a maze of love my thoughts are lost:
And yet no bulwark'd town, nor distant coast,
Preserves the beauteous youth from being seen,
No mountains rise, nor oceans flow between.
A shallow water hinders my embrace;
And yet the lovely mimick wears a face
That kindly smiles, and when I bend to join
My lips to his, he fondly bends to mine.
Hear, gentle youth, and pity my complaint,
Come from thy well, thou fair inhabitant.
My charms an easy conquest have obtain'd
O'er other hearts, by thee alone disdain'd.
But why should I despair? I'm sure he burn
With equal flames, and languishes by turns.
When–e'er I stoop, he offers at a kiss,
And when my arms I stretch, he stretches his.
His eye with pleasure on my face he keeps,
He smiles my smiles, and when I weep he weeps.
When e'er I speak, his moving lips appear
To utter something, which I cannot hear.

"Ah wretched me! I now begin too late
To find out all the long–perplex'd deceit;
It is my self I love, my self I see;
The gay delusion is a part of me.
I kindle up the fires by which I burn,
And my own beauties from the well return.
Whom should I court? how utter my complaint?
Enjoyment but produces my restraint,
And too much plenty makes me die for want.
How gladly would I from my self remove!
And at a distance set the thing I love.
My breast is warm'd with such unusual fire,
I wish him absent whom I most desire.
And now I faint with grief; my fate draws nigh;
In all the pride of blooming youth I die.
Death will the sorrows of my heart relieve.
Oh might the visionary youth survive,
I should with joy my latest breath resign!
But oh! I see his fate involv'd in mine."

This said, the weeping youth again return'd
To the clear fountain, where again he burn'd;
His tears defac'd the surface of the well,
With circle after circle, as they fell:
And now the lovely face but half appears,
O'er–run with wrinkles, and deform'd with tears.
"Ah whither," cries Narcissus, "dost thou fly?
Let me still feed the flame by which I die;
Let me still see, tho' I'm no further blest."
Then rends his garment off, and beats his breast:
His naked bosom redden'd with the blow
In such a blush as purple clusters show,
Ere yet the sun's autumnal heats refine
Their sprightly juice, and mellow it to wine.
The glowing beauties of his breast he spies,
And with a new redoubled passion dies.
As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run,
And trickle into drops before the sun;
So melts the youth, and languishes away,
His beauty withers, and his limbs decay;
And none of those attractive charms remain,
To which the slighted Echo su'd in vain.

She saw him in his present misery,
Whom, spight of all her wrongs, she griev'd to see.
She answer'd sadly to the lover's moan,
Sigh'd back his sighs, and groan'd to ev'ry groan:
"Ah youth! belov'd in vain," Narcissus cries;
"Ah youth! belov'd in vain," the nymph replies.
"Farewel," says he; the parting sound scarce fell
From his faint lips, but she reply'd, "farewel."
Then on th' wholsome earth he gasping lyes,
'Till death shuts up those self–admiring eyes.
To the cold shades his flitting ghost retires,
And in the Stygian waves it self admires.

For him the Naiads and the Dryads mourn,
Whom the sad Echo answers in her turn;
And now the sister–nymphs prepare his urn:
When, looking for his corps, they only found
A rising stalk, with yellow blossoms crown'd.


With the birth of psychoanalysis came narcissism--the dreamworld that used to exist as the space of imagination at last became yet another mirror held up to the self. The primary problem with which the myth of narcissus concerns itself is that of boundaries--or the limits of demarcation of the self--the space under questions becomes the threshold space between subject and external world.

Narcosis--the duel--gambling--the guide

Seeing oneself in the outside world.

From Herbert Marcuse Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud. Vintage: New York, 1955. Chapter: "The Images of Orpheus and Narcissus". Sites the following sources on Narcissus:
1. Andre Gidé Le Traité du Narcisse
Alas, when will Time ceaswe its flight and allow this flow to rest? Forms, divine and perennial forms which only wait for rest in order to reappear! O when, in what night, will you crystallize again?
Paradise must always be re-created. It is not in some remote Thule; it lingrs under the appearance. Everything holds within itself, as potentiality,t he intimate harmony of its being--just as every salt holds within itself the archetype of its crystal. And a time of silent night will come when the waters will descend, more dense; then, in the unperturbed abysses, the secret crystals will bloom . . . Everything strives toward its lost form . . . (Marcuse 148n)
2. Paul Valéry Narcisse Parle
A great calm hears me, where I hear Hope. The voice of the wells changes and speaks of the night; in the holy shade I hear the silver herb grow, and the treacherous moon raises its mirror deep into the secrets of the extinguised fountain. (Marcuse 148n)
3. Paul Valéry Cantate Du Narcisse Scène II
Admire in Narcissus the etertnal return toward the mirror of the water which offers his image to his love, and to his beauty all his knowledge. All my fate is obedience to the force of my love. Body, I surrender to your sole power; the tranquil water awaits me where I extend my arms: I do not resist this pure madness. What, O my Beauty, can I do that thou dost not will?" (Marcuse 149n) 
The Great Refusal: "The Orphic-Narcissistic images are those of the Great Refusal: refusal to accept separation from the libidinous object (or subject). The refusal aims at liberation--at the reunion of what has become separated. Orpheus is the archetype fo teh poet as liberator and creator; he establishes a higher order in the world--an order without repression. In his person, art, freedom, and culture are eternally combined. He is the poet of redemption, (Marcuse 154) the god who brings peace and salvation by pacifying man and nature, not through force but through song . . . " (Marcuse 155). 

see following quote from Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer:

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"The Orphic Eros transforms being: he masters cruelty and death through liberation. his language is song, and his work is play. Narcissus' life is that of beauty, and his exisence is contemplation. These images refer to the aesthetic dimension as the one in which their reality principle must be sought and validated (Marcuse 156).

See Girard's Violence and the Sacred--chapter "From Mimetic Desire to Monstrous Double": RIVALRY: "The mimetic quality of childhood desire is universally recognized. Adult desire is virtually identical, except that (most strikingly in our oqn culture) the adult is generally ashamed to imitate others for fear of revealing his lack of being. The adult likes to assert his independence and to offer himself as a model to others; he invariably falls back on the formula, 'Imitate me!' in order to concel his own lack of originality. [new para.] Two desires convergining on the same object are bound to clash. Thus, mimesis coupled with desire leads automatically to conflict. However, men always seem half blind to this conjunction, unable to pervceive it as a cause of rivalry. In human relationships words like sameness and similarityevoke an image of harmony. If we have the same tastes and like the same things, surely we are bound to get along. But what will happen when we share the same desires? Only the major dramatists and novelists have partly understood and explored this form of rivalry. Even Freud treated it in an indirect and distorted fashion as we shall see in the next chapter. [new pare.] By a strange u explicable consequence of their relationship, neighter the model nor the discipole is desposed to acknowledge the inevitable rivalry. The model, even when he has openly encouraged imitation, is surprised to find himself engaged in competition. He concludes that the disciples has betrayed his confidence by following in his footsteps. As for the disciple, he feels both rejected and humilitated, judged unworthy by his model of participating in the superior existence the model himself enjoys. . . . .blah blah blah....." (Girard Violence and the Sacred 146)

Myth

Myth

"Doesn't the seducer end up losing himself in his strategy, as in an emotional labyrinth? Doesn't he invent the strategy in order to lose himself in it? And he who believes himself the game's master, isn't he the first victim of strategy's tragic myth?" (Baudrillard, Seduction 98)

Minotaur

Minotaur

Minotaur II: Come back to this idea of the Minotaur here and try to get at how it works—could the Minotaurs be multiplicitous? Might the myths themselves—the collected fragments of scholarship—be the beasts we must encounter, the chance encounters, that cause that “flash of awakened consciousness” to blitz before our eyes? COME BACK TO THIS. Also, see Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood for more on the bestiality side of the Minotaur’s origins. This Minotaur idea might be a way into some of the concerns of the flaneuses. The men penetrate the labyrinth in order to murder and arise victorious. The women wish to copulate with this creature, head of an animal, body of a man…an inverse of the satyr which Henry Miller embraces so readily as a parallel self. See Borges’ story about the Minotaur that hardly defended himself in alabyrinth with no walls—the city itself. The idea of MONSTERS…. “The House of Asterion”

Messageboards

Messageboards

 

Maps

Maps

 

Tracing versus Mapping and Delueze-Guatarri.

Magic and the Sublime

Magic and the Sublime

"The fascination of danger is at the bottom of all great passions. There is no fullnmess of pleasure unless the precipice is near. It is the mingling of terror with delight that intoxicates. And what more terrifying than play? It gives and takes away; its logic is not our logic. It is dumb and blind and deaf. It is almighty. it is a God. 
Yes, a God; it has its votaries and its saints, who love it for itself, not for what it promises, and who (14) fall down in adoration when its blow strikes them. It strips them ruthlessly, and they lay the blame on themselves, not on their deity.
'I played a bad game,' they say.
They find fault with themselves; they do not blaspheme their God." (Anatole France, The Garden of Epicurus, pp. 14-15)

See imagination. Magic as novelty. Sublime a la Burke--always connected to novelty, and thus to children...see Benjamin's chi

Links

Links

Linking as Bibliography?

This section could actually function as a chapter on the idea of hyperlinks. Here we could flesh out Benjamin's own hyperlinking system--trace such systems through writers like Coleridge and Charlotte Smith--the Romantic/Modernistobsession with the fragment....Of course, Joyce and Eliot could be mentined in passing--Nabokov--The House of Leaves. Then at the end we can have the bibliography (the links).
Sites that reference or have referenced The Arcades Project Project:
http://www.girlwonder.com/
http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/holistic/theory.htm
http://www.bernies-journeys.com/
Online Texts of Interest:
Ryder, Martin. The World Wide Web And the Dialectics of Consciousness. Paper presented to Fourth Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory Aarhus, Denmark: June 7-11, 1998. (Storage Technology Corporation). <http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/iscrat_98.htm>
Ryder, Martin. Spinning Webs of Significance Considering anonymous communities in activity systems. <http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/iscrat_99.html>
Militant Esthetix

Online Images Cited:
Alphabet: original source: http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/tic212.jpg (Alphabet)
Anchor: original source: http://www.wanderingfirepottery.com/Anchor%20Cross%204%20inch.JPG (Anchors)
"Apple 1985" by Andy Warhol: original source: http://www.coskunfineart.com/warhol/apple.htm (Myth)
Audience: original source: http://dvdmovieworld.tripod.com/id9.html (Passengers)
Bees: original source: http://www.seanfitzgerald.com/fennessey/insects/images/bees.jpg (Crowds)
Bermuda Doorways: original source::http://www.bs.nu/bermuda2000/images/doorways.jpg (???)
Black Widow: original source: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Arizona/azwild.html(Seduction)
Black and White Doorways: original source: http://www.henrylim.org/Doorways.html (???)
Central Processing Unit: original source:http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~macgregr/motboard.gif (Centers)
Charlie McCarthy: original source:http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004T95V.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg (Recreation)
Chess Piece: original source: http://store.digitalfaucet.com/gallery/knight.jpg(Recreation)
Computer Monitor: original source: http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000X5LBA.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg (Recreation)
Copernicus: original source: http://csaweb.yonsei.ac.kr/~rhee/astroimage/Copernicus-Uni02.jpg (Copernicus)
Copernicus Moon Crater: original source:http://www.astrofiliveronesi.it/public/copernicus%202004%2011%2021%2019.20%20tu.jpg(Copernicus)
Cosmic Dust: original source: http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/30_06/images/cosmicdust.jpg (Collecting)
Crowd: original source: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/3487/biography.html(Canetti)
Crystal Palace: original source: http://www.museum.guernsey.net/images/Crystal%20Palace%20-%2003.jpg (Palaces)
Dali's "Infant Jesus": original source: http://www.msgr.ca/msgr-4/ dali_the_infant_jesus.htm (Myth)
Dali's "Last Supper": original source: http://ww.fotos.org/.../size/ big/sort/1/cat/520/page/5 (Ritual)
Dandelion Seed: original source: http://www.etaoin.com/mcc15.htm (A Une Passante)
Dove: original source: http://segredos.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/Magritte4.JPG (Backgrounds)
Djuna Barnes Drawing #1: original source: http://www.alb-neckar-schwarzwald.de/dbarnes/db-1.gif (Barnes)
Djuna Barnes Drawing #2: original source: http://www.demuth.org/3harlequins.gif (Flaneur)
Duchamp's Urinal: original source: http://www.artnewsblog.com/images/duchamp-urinal.jpg (Avant-garde)
EtchAsketch: original source:http://www.nocommercialpotential.net/failagain/etchaSketch.jpg (Recreation)
Family Fun: original source:http://familyfun.go.com/Resources/Cakes/recipes/special/alphaGtoI_i.jpg (Recreation)
Fantin-Latour: original source: http://www.luc.edu/depts/history/dennis/Visual_Arts/page_Realism.htm (Flaneur)
Frames: original source: http://www.sciencecenter.net/hutech/idas/pics/frames.jpg(Frames)
Game Cube: original source:http://nintendogamecheat.com/Nintendo_Gamecube/Images/Cube.jpg (Recreation)
Go Game Board: original source: http://x42.com/go/boardimages/980203b.gif(Recreation)
Gutenberg Bible: original source: http://www.carteretcountyschools.org/aes/dc/Picturesday4.htm (The Book)
Hangman: original source: http://www.cincinnati.com/nie/hangman/ (Omission)
"Houndsditch" by Gustav Dore (1872): original source: http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/conMediaFile.4753/Houndsditch-(1872).html(Prostitution)

Illegible Document: original source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/blount/census/1910/009a-illegible.gif (Poe)

Intoxication: original source: http://home.new.rr.com/drbear/chesterfield2.jpg(Intoxication)
Kama Sutra: original source: http://www.nat.org/nattoons/the-kama-sutra/1.php3(Interiority/Exteriority)
Keys: original source: http://www.theinsurancepeople.net/images/car_keys.jpg (Recreation)
Labyrinth: original source: http://www.bcrac.org/images/chartres.gif (Minotaur)
Languid Woman: original source: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/lp-covers/images%20PIN%20UP/CARS%20CANDY%20O.jpg (Recreation)
Lotto Ticket: original source: http://eire.paha.hu/egyebek/lotto.jpg (Chance)
Lymph Nodes: original source: http://www.udel.edu/Biology/Wags/histopage/illuspage/ilst/ilst3.GIF (Nodes)
Magritte Golconda: original source: http://www.urbandesign.it/corso/corso_finalita.htm (Surrealism)
Magritte Le Viol: original source: http://kujok.dk/billeder/Rene%20Magritte/magritte-le-viol.jpeg (Absence of Mind)
Matisse "La Grenouille": original source: http://www.poster.net/matisse-henri/matisse-henri-papiers-decoupes-la-grenouille-4705883.jpg (Presence of Mind)
Michelin Tire Logo: original source: http://www.frankfordbike.com/NEWstoreimg/HistoryPage/BrandLogos/Michelin.jpg and http://statelinetirecom.verizonsupersite.com/nss-folder/pictures/michelin.gif (Gibson)
Narcissus: original source: http://www.rockover.com.br/letras/blitzkrieg-bop.htm(Narcissus) 
Nova: original source: http://www.udel.edu/Biology/Wags/wagart/worldspage/nova.gif(Novelty)
"Obsessions of the Heart" by Dali: original source: http://www.artnet.de/artwork_images/423841944/136238t.jpg (Obsession)
Pac Man: original source: http://photos1.blogger.com/img/258/1077/640/pacpac.jpg (End)
Parisian Arcades: original source: Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999. (Arcades)
Pinata: original source: http://www.texmex.net/Graphics/pinata.gif (Recreation)
Pinky and the Brain Plan to Take Over the World: original source: privat.swol.de/OliverLang/pinky2.htm (Prospectus)
Pogo Stick: original source: http://www.membrana.ru/images/articles/1033383064-9.jpeg(Recreation)
Pong: original source: http://clay.ll.pl/screenshots/pong.png (Games)
Q-Bert: original source: http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/~gauntlet/eg/eg2/20031114/qbert.jpg(Paths)
River Styx: original source: 
http://members.tripod.com/Barry_Stone/images/The_Ferrymaan.JPG (Passages)
Roman Dice: original source: http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/games/pictures/dice.jpg (Snake Eyes)
Rubber Duckie: original source: http://www.spadepot.com/catalog/images/fx9008f.jpg(recreation)
Shrinky Dinks: original source:http://www.learningexpress.com/jsp/images/catalog_images/kc085_l.jpg (Recreation)
Sit and Spin: original source: http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/55/06/Rockin_Tunes_Music_Lights_Sit_n_Spin-resized200.jpg (Recreation)
Slot Machine: original source: http://www.fmsoftware.info/pictures/easternpromise/easternpreview3.jpg (Stakes)
Sorry Board Game: original source:http://www.toyscamp.com/catalog/HB0390S5.jpg (Recreation)
Sperms: original source: http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2003/111-12/niehsnews.html?section=environmental (Chance)
Spiderman: original source: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/swig/SWIGWEB1_files/Spiderman.jpg (Spiders)
Stein, Gertrude: original source: http://www.sandor-collection.com/mrstein.jpg(Repetition)
Super Mario: original source: http://warpzonevideogames.com/Merchant2/graphics/toysandactionfigures/stage_underwater.jpg(Aquariums)
Ten Commandments: original source: http://www.gophouse.com/Members/ELSENHEIMER/Photos/images/commandments.JPG(Rules)
Tennis Ball: original source: http://tennisballmachine.wowshopper.com/pics-inventory/a-microx.jpg (Recreation)
Tennis Racket: original source: http://www.yopi.de/images/prod_pics/577/e/577578.jpg(Recreation)
Theseus and the Minotaur: original source: http://24.24.31.212/literature/POL-LDS-Phaedo.htm (Minotaur)
Thread: original source: http://www.lindasknitnstitch.com/gallery/shop%20tour.htm(Traces)
Turnstile Design: original source: http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/magcard/titan.jpg (Thresholds)
USS Parce SSN 683: original source:http://lapelpins.montereycompany.com/www/images/sub-coin-lg.gif (Recreation)
Venice: original source: http://venicexplorer.net/map/maps_venezia/images/maps_venezia_c.gif (Death in Venice)
"Vortograph" by Alvin Langdon Coburn 1917: original source: http://www.photographers.it/articoli/christies.htm (Lighting)