Braudel's The Mediterranean was made over twenty years, and Braudel's excess is statistical, but he also innovates narratives, his maps are loaded with motion data, sometimes forcing the audience to shift orientation to realize scope and origin. Below, the reader rotates to see.

The west wants its data dressed up, ironed out, reduced to simplistic and fantastically other worlds where impossibilities are illustrated in snappy, easy-to-read aphorisms, second generation Oliver Sacks seeking out yonder kindles. In Sunday's NY Times pop-psych article called "Does your language shape how you think?" Guy Deutscher tries to convince the audience through blind leads as loaded as "SINCE THERE IS NO EVIDENCE that any language forbids its speakers to think anything" that language is as unrestricted as a fish that can swim every drop of the ocean. He offers innovative thinker Benjamin Lee Whorf as a sacrifice, then singles out an aboriginal language that obsessively locates directions (their cardinal-ness, whether they ever operate effectively, is clearly up for debate, since its effectiveness is illustrated merely by a mythistory only verifiable through its repetition). Deutscher's article is so positivist about language, we can be sure he's simplifying into incredulity. While he offers up Whorf for beheading, he neglects Sapir, Casirrer, Boas and many other descendants of lingual studies who explore and comprehend the evolutionary aspects of individual languages, who would have a field day with Deutscher's lazy claims. The article and its messy appropriations re-ignores vast data that contours and counters his bizarre 19th century approach. Languages clearly don't forbid thoughts, but they control measurements and values (gender is simply one of MANY layers of identity); the abilities of nouns to code themselves, travel, transform, become verbs (or vice versa) is at the core of how the brain really operates and clearly, we have many value systems in play across the spectrum of language (even the definition of language is not what we began with in 1900), and the war of domination among humans is as about language as it is about race, gender, class, border. More proof news can neither examine the past nor the present until it examines how it constructs its world while it falsely perceives it is reconstructing.

Above, the 4-H pledge

and distant-looking orbiting and non-orbiting structures

Did language evolve as it moved eastward and devolve as it moved westward? Final battlefield as well as the first time the fronts meet: the 'Americas.'

Upon meeting his prime visualizer in 1974, Ralph McQuarrie, George Lucas sketched out three of his known quantities, showcasing that design and writing for his upcoming saga was simultaneous. Knowing these forms' shaping was elemental in describing their conflict in written form.

6th Century BC Corinth Comedy. Comedies like these were imported to Athens from other cities. Characters were theives, slaves, drunken old women, plots involved stealing wine, manners, errors. Costumes made some appear gleefully grotesque.