It is manic, an example of art imitating art, but at the same time it is breathtaking, perplexing, thought-provoking and everything that conceptual art aspires to but so rarely succeeds at.
The jacket shows a detail from Dora Carrington's portrait of Catherine Carrington: almond eyes, shingled hair, moony expression on her face that says: 'I think deep and perplexing thoughts.' I opened the book, and began reading.
It offered several perplexing thoughts: that we had become so caught up in the dark narrative of her songs – the blighted love, the drugs, the chaos, the notion of the mercurial genius – that when her demise became ever more brazen and distressing, we saw Winehouse not as an individual but as the butt of chat-show jokes and YouTube footage.
They can appreciate one another's erratic and perplexing trains of thought.
This leads to one of the most interesting and perplexing aspects of Camus's thought: his determination to criticize attitudes that he finds to be natural and inevitable.
In addition, Lange concludes the Logische Studien with an intriguing, but somewhat perplexing, appeal to neo-Platonist thought in explaining his theory of space and time.
These are furiously nihilistic thoughts, not to mention perplexing ones.
What it all adds up to is hard to say, but it opens up an expansive space of thought and reverie for a perplexing time of rampant interconnectivity in a global economy.
These rich and perplexing issues have been argued over by entire schools of thought in documentary, from the British in the 1930s to the cinema vérité purists of the 60s, through Jean Rouch, the Maysles brothers and Errol Morris.
It has been particularly perplexing that regions that develop insoluble nuclear inclusions, which were long thought to be toxic, tend to escape SCA1 pathology (Watase et al., 2002).
