On Nov 27, 2013, at 9:38 pm, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > On 27 Nov 2013, at 04:13, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Nov 27, 2013, at 3:42 pm, John <johnsess...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> I get that it's a Tetris cake, but is there any specific meaning to that >>> fact that I'm missing? >> >> Nope, just a Tetris cake :) > > Nothing is ever 'just' something. > > The cake is a 3-dimensional simulacrum of something which only exists as an > idea, embodied in 2 dimensions (if the virtual domain can be said to be > dimensional). The contradiction is that the signifier is somehow more real > than the signified, so that the inherent paradox of the sugary comestible > becomes itself a double signifier, equally of meta-meaning in late > postmodernism, and of the love you have for your wife, which embodies the > courtly ideal. > > Tetris, of course, is a game of joining and of construction, which relies on > the player being able to respond to randomness and from it construct meaning > despite the difficulties. It is a kind of bricolage, making do with what life > has dealt you, to construct as best you can what is, essentially, an idea. > This quite unequivocally symbolises marriage, and by baking a Tetris cake > rather than say a Battenberg, you have particularised the mathematical > generic metanarrative, moving from the signifying domain to the realm of the > signifier.
Well, I figured all that was obvious to any half-educated viewer... :) Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
