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is there a word for the equivalent of an anti-library (your unread books) but for people.. like people you want to get to read about or understand better? anti-people sounds bad haha

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I call them 'Lighthouse People' in my system. As in, you want to go explore the things they're shining light on. Guidance in darkness. There's the classic light = ideas / knowledge / information metaphor again 😄 Inescapable

8:37 PM · Oct 30, 2020Twitter Web App

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that's so good! I guess this even relates to what I just read surprisingly (though rather than shine on things, they also can shine themselves, which relates to embodiment of ideas)

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· Oct 30, 2020

medieval paintings were "as if it's beings all contained their own source of light" "...you feel that if their luminosity, were extinguished, what is in the picture would not just cease to be visible, but would cease to exist altogether"

Early twelfth-century miniatures, however, continue in the tradition of the icon used in the eastern Christian Church. Following this tradition, the painter neither paints nor suggests any light that strikes the object and then is reflected by it. The world is represented as if its beings all contained their own source of light. Light is immanent in this world of medieval things, and they reach the eye of the beholder as sources of their own luminosity. You feel that if this, their luminosity, were extinguished, what is in the picture would not just cease to
be visible, but would cease to exist altogether. Light here is not used as a function but coincides with the Bildwelt - the painted realities.

Such metaphorical serendipity! What's the passage from? Love the notion of people embodying specific ideas you want to follow. Takes the focus away from the person as celebrity / guru / other problematic fawning relationship, and shifts it toward following their trail of ideas

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