Nonetheless, it's always a surreal experience when you're sleeping, working out, eating chow, or simply lost in your own thoughts and the thump-thump-thump of incoming rounds gives your world a little shake or the door to your room suddenly rattles in its frame as if someone just gave it a swift kick with a combat boot.
"But homeowners should think of the front door and its frame as a single, integrated system".
I'd just glanced at the picture behind its frame as I walked down the hall, the image whole in my mind.
The most up-to-date if occasionally dismaying aspect of the book is its framing as a self-help guide, along the lines of "How Leonardo Can Change Your Life".
And one could think of its frame as the story of how the world was saved because Shahreyar, the betrayed and murderous king, came to trust it again through the love and wisdom of his wife, Shahrezad.
"Oh, she said, 'Richard Hoggart has climbed to wealth and success on my shoulders.'" Then there was the Cambridge lecture after which a Leavis acolyte produced the deadly insult - made even more deadly by its framing as a rhetorical question - "Are you the would-be intellectual's JB Priestley?" You imagine that Hoggart gave as good as he got in this exchange.
Stockhausen called both of these possibilities "polyvalent form" (Stockhausen, Texte 1, 241 51), which may be either open form (essentially incomplete, pointing beyond its frame), as with Klavierstück XI (1956), or "closed form" (complete and self-contained) as with Momente (1962 64/69) (Kaletha 2004, 97 98).
So will Marsden Hartley's "Forms Abstracted" with its celestial white horse watched over by bright stars and enmeshed in abstract forms that extend to its painted frame, as well as photographs by Ralston Crawford and Reginald Marsh and egg tempera paintings from Jacob Lawrence's doleful "War Series" of 1946-47.
"I've seen frames as old as 1915".
"Jimmy Neutron" is as jam-packed with incident as its frames are stuffed with information.
