Today’s XKCD reminds us all of the legacy of scientific interpretation.  Hermeneutics has finally come full circle into everydayness.

Munro must have spent some time obsessing over those films. I wonder which axis gave him the most trouble. Maybe choosing the legend, and thus the vocabulary, was the hardest exercise.  Another famous height creation of his and a well made depth episode. The Enlightenment progression has the stick figures mounted the same way as Attic vases.

In the same plane, at an other extreme, artist Stephen Wiltshire draws by hand the skyline of Manhattan and New Jersey from memory.

the hand moves while the memory rests (Stephen Wiltshire)