It's impossible to speak of Mr. Perahia's technique as an individual component of his pianism because every gesture, articulation and accent comes from a lucid musical idea.
Puzzling your way through its compilation of vaguely lucid and crackpot ideas is pleasurable though, for avid movie lovers, it may also feel like a warning.
Loos stands for this idea: a lucid view of self and others requires perpetual polishing of the lens.
And Hollywood has just produced its own spin on lucid dreaming and the idea of controlling dreams, with the release earlier this month of "Inception," a thriller whose plot swirls through the darkest layers of the dream world.
It's the sheer twisted imagination of the premise; the idea of lucid waking nightmares bleeding into the real world makes Freddy Krueger a much more formidable and interesting foe than any of his slasher rivals.
It is in German philosophy of the late 18th century that we find the most lucid articulations of this idea of idealizing propaganda.
Both books - despite the inevitable compression, wonderfully lucid expositions of complicated ideas - remark on the significance of the contrast between Keynes's reception on either side of the Atlantic and in continental Europe.
Choreographer Jade Shaw, who founded small business ParkourDance in 2012 after brainstorming the idea during a lucid dream, says she has experienced this first hand.
Shortly after finishing Insomnia (2002), Nolan wrote an 80-page treatment about "dream stealers" envisioning a horror film inspired by lucid dreaming and presented the idea to Warner Bros. Feeling he needed to have more experience with large-scale film production, Nolan retired the project and instead worked on Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), and The Dark Knight (2008).
The present opinion of his greatness stems from the power of his principal ideas and the lucid, provocative writing with which he expressed them.
