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		<title>A true intuition on looking at the sky: Brauner&#8217;s &#8220;Surrealist&#8221; and Georg Cantor</title>
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		<title>The Geometry of haloes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodor Pavlopoulos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “Encounter” The tessellation of human or almost human forms becomes denser and clearer in the center of the picture, where it finally dissolves: a procession of creatures, half of them white and half of them black, break free from their two dimensional trap and walk to opposite directions, only to be entangled in some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pavlopoulos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8743278&amp;post=682&amp;subd=pavlopoulos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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