See French Canadian architecture from Québec. See House in symmetrical repose (Nova Scotia). Go to good website about Palladio's Italian Villas.
Leisure is the basis of culture.
See IBM poster: "How to Stuff a Wild Duck".   RYO: Create your own cartoon! Learn about CUBORO marble run toy.   Make  use of myths (and "beliefs"): Scavenge your own semiotic junkyard! ~ But be careful: Don't play in traffic (...if you know what I mean)!
See  Brigitte Bardot wizened by suntanning: Stay out of the sun! See the most beauteous mole in the world!   Why not vote, Rose Selavy? Resize peasant shoes! (van Gogh, Heidegger, me, thee...)		¿Haiku?
L.H.O.O.Q. (I.U.D.T.C.R.?) Revisit The Tower of Babel. Visit Villa Pizza (2004, Chappaqua NY USA).   See  good fun turn nasty when impromptu college baseball game turns from play to "playing to win". Read  quote from Sigmund Freud on role of factual doubt in imaginative elaboration.		¡Dream!
		Float away
Think  about The Decline of The West: Is the adventure of Universalizing culture over? (View intro)   View web art on this website.

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"Most books are about other books." "We are able to read The Great Book of Nature only because of what we have learned from reading the little books of men." --George Steiner (paraphrases from memory) "Disembodied signifiers (words, symbols, etc.) are great toys: endlessly fun to play with, and they don't use up material resources or pollute the environment...." --BMcC

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