For a few months, I had been searching for strange shapes to break my symbol set.
The ultimate kitsch representation of art-making is the moment in the movie "The Agony and the Ecstasy" when Charlton Heston's Michelangelo, desperate to break his symbol set of divine likenesses, sees the nebulous form of God creating Adam in the clouds above his head.
By continuously walking on the city ground, pigeons stand in opposition to the upstroke of birds and so have broken their symbol of elevation.
RScan breaks the symbol sequences in a structural database into consecutive k-tuples of k contiguous symbols and stores the positions of each occurrence of k-tuple using the hash table.
If you are seeing a lot of odd line breaks and symbols in your e-mail text, it is probably because the message has been forwarded a number of times to other people before reaching you.
Now I saw that this scoffed-at scene is a purely pragmatic image of creativity: Michelangelo needed to break through his symbol set by finding new shapes to look at.
The Lost Symbol broke all sorts of sales records on its release in 2009 and this new title is likely to be the bestselling book of 2013".
Whatever the peculiar national, regional, or local variations, elections are events that, by arousing emotions and channeling them toward collective symbols, break the monotony of daily life and focus attention on the common fate.
"I won't forget how fragile life is and that the future is always now," Mr. Coleman said, invoking the Jewish wedding ceremony, in which a glass is broken as a symbol of remembering tragedy amid celebration.
Later, during the Black Power movement, jazz musicians offered a different analogy and saw Mr. Coleman's innovations as "a political statement — breaking down chords and rhythms as a symbol for breaking down white authority and power".
