The Japanese word for unread books, particularly books that have been bought but not yet read, is tsundoku (積ん読). This term refers to the phenomenon of acquiring books and letting them pile up unread, rather than reading them. — AI Overview at Google
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• Tsundoku at Wikipedia
Dissolving Dot Illusion by the Japanese psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka
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• This Illusion Knows When You Are Looking at It, Slate, 13ix16
The optically illusory album Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) by Animal Collective
The Missing Square Puzzle
An animation of the puzzle
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• Missing square puzzle — all is explained at Wikipedia
“I love figures, it gives me an intense satisfaction to deal with them, they’re living things to me, and now that I can handle them all day long I feel myself again.” — the imprisoned accountant Jean Charvin in W. Somerset Maugham’s short-story “A Man with a Conscience” (1939)
A perceived sphere (image from AnOpticalIllusion.com)
“My only drugs are silence and solitude.” — Frederick Forsyth in The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue (2015)
[I]t was hard to pierce Robert de Montesquiou’s carapace — and he wouldn’t have wanted you to. He was perhaps at heart a melancholic: he liked to say that his mother had “given me the sad present of life”. His restlessness and furious inquisitiveness might have been a response to this. He was vain without being especially self-reflective, one of those who, rather than look inside to discover who they are, prefer to see themselves in the reflections that come back from others. — Julian Barnes, The Man in the Red Coat (2019), pp. 192-3
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• Portait of a Peacock — Cornelia Otis Skinner’s essay on Montesquiou
• Le Paon dans les Pyrénées — review of Barnes’ The Man in the Red Coat
Some examples of impossible geometry (poster at Tarquin)
When you stare at the cross for at least 30 seconds, you see three illusions:
• A gap running around the circle of lilac discs;
• A green disc running around the circle of lilac discs in place of the gap; and
• The green disc running around on the grey background, with the lilac discs having disappeared in sequence. — Lilac Chaser, Wikipedia
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• Troxler’s fading at Wikipedia
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 