No artists created the first cave art

There WERE no artists in paleolithic times, in medieval either, though that is another post. Any account of paleolithic drawings as being caused by artists, is wrong before that sentence is finished.

If these human being were not making art, what were they doing. To call their product art, because that is how WE would produce something similar, is to preclude understanding, to be on the level of comprehension of a Degrassy Knollson--that is having just a few alphabet blox in your toybock.

What was going on was brave people trying to grasp to comprehend themselves as part of a world: That they were a world, a world -- within a world. To explore that world, and their own part in it.

Which is to say, they glimpsed the nature of human thought, perhaps in creating it, but certainly in being aware of cerebral function, and the power and awe of such a comprehension. A comprehension, perhaps, of THEMSELVES, (plural, not singular) as  a separate species, with certain powers. They were not just pebbles for humanoid powers to trip on, but, themselves had some agency.

The drawings then, were a stage in conceptual thinking. A stage we mythologize, and about which we probably miss a lot.

Boilerplate reference the EU GDPR

Below are excerpts from a lawyers blog, which I copy here to indicate my awareness of and concern for the "EU General Data Protection Regulation". I actually have a poor sense of what is going on. If any reader thinks I may be collecting data on them. I am not. But who knows what Google is up to.

"This is a GDPR ..

As you may be aware, on 25 May 2018 the EU General Data Protection Regulation EU (2016)/679 (GDPR) comes into force in all EU member states. The GDPR applies to ‘personal data’ meaning any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified by reference to an identifier. It requires that personal data be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner, and that personal data be collected for specified and legitimate purposes.

..... Google may collect and/or process your data in these circumstances. If you have any concerns regarding Google’s use of your personal data following use of these tools, you may read Google’s policy  here and here.  Google’s Privacy Policy may also be found by searching for the Google Privacy Policy ."

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To Quote Is to Betray

How could it be said, that "To Quote Is to Betray."

To repeat,
To repeat,
To repeat,
the exact words,
or, even,
some facsimile thereof--

Could betray one whose
gestures, words, time, sweat
pointed to one

THING

ONE

O

A Point Encased

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/09/the-strange-magic-of-libraries/

This link,  don't click it, just look at the topic.  A point Jan made once, was that you could only talk about something (anything) when it is over.

Pindicular

Pindicular: balanced on the logically, necessarily, non-existent, point of a pin.

Spring

Maybe
the haystack is made of
needles

Those Olympic athletes

Gosh, just amazing feats. You wonder if such is possible even, until you see it.  Like spinning in the air during a jump. Internal attention, maintaining it, perhaps such invisible feats, might be even MORE difficult. And a difference between athletic stars and the ambitions of even fewer folks, is that if acclaim is an issue, for the latter, that itself is a form of spin out.