Corolla
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| - | [[Star-nosed mole]] illustration (or photo?) from [[Caillois]]'s ''[[Au cœur du fantastique]]'' | + | '''Corolla''' may refer to: |
| - | In writing about the fantastique, Caillois defined it as "always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality" (tr. Richard Howard). | + | {{tocright}} |
| + | == Science == | ||
| + | *[[Corolla (flower)]], name for the petals of a flower, considered as a unit | ||
| + | *[[Corolla (gastropod)|''Corolla'' (gastropod)]], a genus of molluscs | ||
| - | Interestingly, Caillois invented a second category, the [[Fantastique naturel]] (the natural fantastic) which seems to contradict his definition. Contradictory is of course that 'everyday legality' is natural | + | == Geography == |
| - | so the fantastic would be 'unnatural'. He uses as example two animal species: the [[star-nosed mole]] and [[lantern fly]]. | + | *[[Corolla, North Carolina]], a town in the United States |
| - | He explains his [[rationale]]: | + | == Vehicles == |
| - | + | *[[Toyota Corolla]], a model of automobile | |
| - | :… Of course, to name them ‘fantastic’ is a misuse of language, but a significant one. In any event, being subject myself — perhaps unwittingly — to the diffuse pressure exerted by language, I was induced to launch the idea (surprising, to say the least, especially to me) of the [[natural fantastic]]. I first used the term in connection with an insect from north-east Brazil, the lantern fly, and a North American mammal, the star-nosed mole or Condylura. These two animals’ appearance made me resort to a category whose [[specious]] nature I could easily perceive. Quite obviously, these creatures were not fantastic because they were a part of nature. Just as obviously, they seemed fantastic, and even gave quite an exceptional sense of the fantastic: the tree-dwelling [[homopteron]], on account of its frontal protuberance, which is almost as big as its body and deceptively suggests a crocodile’s muzzle; and the subterranean vertebrate, on account of its snout, which sports a crown of twenty-two short tentacles of live pink flesh, all mobile, sensitive, and retractable, flaccid or tensed at will, and very vaguely like an intricate starfish or some horrible [[corolla]].[http://unrealnature.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/inexhaustible-warranty/] | + | |
| + | == Miscellaneous == | ||
| + | *[[Corolla (chaplet)]], an ancient garland and later headdress, bearing some resemblance to the corolla of a flower | ||
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| - | ''[[A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting]]'' (1946) [[Norman McLaren]] | ||
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| - | [[View from the south of Het Paleis, facing town hall]] | ||
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| - | [[Het Paleis]] | ||
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| - | ''[[The Sons of Clovis II]]'' (Original French: '''Les Énervés de Jumièges''')[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27The_Sons_of_Clovis_II%27,_oil_on_canvas_painting_by_%C3%89variste_Vital_Luminais,_1880,_Art_Gallery_of_New_South_Wales.jpg] (1880 ) is an oil on canvas by French painter [[Évariste Vital Luminais]], currently at the [[Art Gallery of New South Wales]]. | ||
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| - | The painting depicts an episode of the life of [[Clovis II]]. Alarmed by her sons' rebellion, their mother had their [[tendon]]s cut before sending them, immobilised, downstream on a barge to their fate. | ||
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| - | The painting reminds me of ''[[Isle of the Dead (painting)|Isle of the Dead]]'' by German painter [[Arnold Böcklin]], the first version of which was also painted in 1880. | ||
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| - | Luminais was brought to my attention by [[Roger Caillois]] | ||
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Science
- Corolla (flower), name for the petals of a flower, considered as a unit
- Corolla (gastropod), a genus of molluscs
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Geography
- Corolla, North Carolina, a town in the United States
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Vehicles
- Toyota Corolla, a model of automobile
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Miscellaneous
- Corolla (chaplet), an ancient garland and later headdress, bearing some resemblance to the corolla of a flower
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