{"id":30810,"date":"2014-01-10T08:41:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T08:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=30810"},"modified":"2014-01-10T08:44:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T08:44:48","slug":"in-good-really-good-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=30810","title":{"rendered":"In good, really good company"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — mildly NSFW<\/strong><\/font> if your office can’t handle Leonardo<\/strong>, which IMNSHO we should be able to manage now in this 21st century CE — and besides, it’s the weekend ]
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Well, we here at Zenpundit <\/strong>have a particular interest in creative thinking, and this last evening I unexpectedly found myself in excellent creative company…<\/p>\n

…in a months-old blog-post by an old friend<\/a>, an astrophysicist by profession who goes by the name Cygnus <\/strong>on the web — presumably after the constellation that harbors Deneb<\/strong>, and also Kepler-22b<\/strong>, the “first known transiting planet to orbit within the habitable zone of a Sun-like star” (WikiP, since I know no better). Cygnus means “swan” in Greek, and Zeus <\/strong>became a swan for his own imperious purposes when he saw Leda<\/strong> — Helen of Troy<\/strong> being one of their offspring (see eggs in Da Vinci<\/strong>‘s image below), with the Trojan War<\/strong> ensuing.<\/p>\n


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Here’s then, is the A-Z of creative folk<\/strong>, as Cygnus <\/strong>pulled it together last April as part of an “A-Z- Challenge” — I’m honored and awed to be named in the company of such as Andre Breton<\/strong>, Donald Knuth<\/strong>, George Carlin<\/strong>, Octavia Butler<\/strong>, Samuel R Delany<\/strong>, Dame Frances Yates<\/strong> and the rest:<\/p>\n

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For April 2013, my theme for the Blogging from A to Z Challenge<\/b><\/a> was “An A to Z of Masters of the Imagination that You Oughtta Know About.”<\/b><\/i>  In other words, on each day I profiled a person whose brains were just overflowing with weirdness and creativity.  Here’s a list of the posts:<\/p>\n