wikipediabite: the Honi phenomenon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_room

A type of selective perceptual distortion known as the Honi phenomenon causes some married persons to perceive less size distortion of the spouse than a stranger in an Ames room.

The effect was related to the strength of love, liking, and trust of the spouse being viewed. Women who were high positive in this area perceived strangers as being more distorted than their partners. Size judgements by men did not seem to be influenced by the strength of their feeling toward their spouse. (Dion & Dion, 1976)

(Dion & Dion, 1976)

Also, The Honi phenomenon does not exist, but I don't see what their abstract's successive sentences are doing together.

Gold Creek snowshoeing pics, 28 Jan 2006

Green Leaf Books is dormant

On Friday I walked over to Green Leaf, and found the front room all awry, and the back room all but empty, and the owner up on a ladder taking down the lights. She is not making the rent here, so is closing up, will be online and do the Sunday Market, and look for a smaller space. I wished her luck. From among the books still unboxed I saw the Jürgen Dahl book that I'd always eyed in passing, and also a Freeman Patterson book about his garden (which intergrades into hundreds of acres of nature preserve) that I'd never seen, and got those.

It was a wonderful bookstore, and I hope she can bring it back. I found the cheesemaking book there, and very soon this spring I will drill holes for orchard mason bees in accordance with the orchard mason bee book, and I have the book with the soil strata of Mount Rainier. I did not get the one about all of the lemon-scented herbs, but it may turn up again.

booknotes: Anthony Storr, Music and the Mind

7 - study of prosody in utterances of gelada monkeys. "It also seems likely that geladas singing their sound sequences together synchronously and harmoniously also perhaps experience such a temporary physiological synchrony." (Richman, "Rhythm and Melody in Gelada Vocal Exchanges", Primates, 28(2): 199-223, April 1987.)

12 - Giambattista Vico, "that human beings danced before they walked"

15 - μουσιχὴ "musically determined verse, or music and poetry in one" -- Rousseau "that there was no distinct speech apart from song at the beginning of history".

16 - "Later this primeval language would have split into different branches; music would have retained the articulation mainly by pitch (scale) and duration (rhythm), while language chose the articulation mainly by tone colour (vowels and consonants). Language moreover happened to become the vehicle of rational thought and so underwent further influences." (Ehrenzweig, The Psychoanalysis of Artistic Vision and Hearing.)

97 - Marghanita Laski, Ecstasy.

102 - "I remember sitting at breakfast with Konrad Lorenz who suddenly rose from the table saying ‘I hear the cry of a goose-baby’: a sound which no one else had noticed."

131 - Schopenhauer, consciousness of self as will vs. as object.

143 - Edward Cone, The Composer's Voice. "We can raise our voices without knowing that we are doing so; we can speak in tones which displya an underlying gloom without the least awareness of our self-revelation. By adding music to words, the composer can bring out and emphasize the underlying emotional meaning of those words, irrespective of the insight or lack of insight of the character portrayed."

165 - "Words divide, tones unite. The unity of existence that the word constantly breaks up, dividing thing from thing, subject from object, is constantly restored in the tone. Music prevents the world from being entirely transformed into language [...]" (Zuckerkandl, Man the Musician (Sound and Symbol vol. 2).)