#rope – @nickkahler on Tumblr

You shall win the bride you are seeking. All you must do is catch her asleep in the rocky cave and trap her unconscious limbs in the tangling snare of a rope. Don't let her elude you by falsely assuming a hundred disguises. Just squeeze her firmly until she returns to her normal shape.

Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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A gesture turns into gymnastics, rage is expressed through a somersault, exaltation through a salto-mortale, lyricism by a run along a tightrope. The grotesque of this style permitted leaps from one type of expression to another, as well as unexpected intertwinings of the two expressions.

Sergei Eisenstein, Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man, c. 1930

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Bernard Tschumi, Advertisements for Architecture: Ropes and Rules, 1978 (via betonbabe)

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