Wednesday, July 14, 2010

An appropriately rugged picture of John the Baptist (as he seems to have been a singularly rugged individual).



Is there a word for a picture that is like its subject, same as 'autological' is a word that describes itself (as I believe I've mentioned before). The word 'noun' for example is a noun and so is autological. A word that does not describe itself is heterological. There is, of course, the heterological-autological paradox which poses the question, "Is 'heterological' heterological?" (if it is, then it's autological,  but if heterological is autological, then it's heterological, and so on, you get the idea).

Presumably there's an equivalent paradox for a picture like John the Baptist, for the moment my mind rebels against the idea of coming to grips with what it is.







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