{"id":3531,"date":"2019-09-10T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2019-09-10T12:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:29:50","slug":"mt-megunticook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3531","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Megunticook"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we were climbing Mount Megunticook last weekend, this thought wafted through my mind:<\/p>\n

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Am I seeing what I think I’m seeing,
or
is my imagination working overtime?
How would I know?<\/center><\/p>\n

\nFinding faces in beach or mountain rock is an exercise in imagination, perception, analogy, metaphor. But always: the more, the more, and definitely the merrier, as I’m pulled along by the joys of discovery. As Broot observed: Rock faces are on rock faces.<\/p>\n

\nAnd just this morning Andy Ilachinski posted<\/a> this quotation from Leonardo da Vinci:<\/p>\n

\nIf you look at any walls spotted with various stains or with a mixture of different kinds of stones, if you are about to invent some scene you will be able to see in it a resemblance to various different landscapes adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys, and various groups of hills. You will also be able to see divers combats and figures in quick movement, and strange expressions of faces, and outlandish costumes, and an infinite number of things which you can then reduce into separate and well conceived forms.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few cases in point from the Megunticook trove<\/a>:
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