]> Test document #1, with a brief <em ref="Essay">essay</em> and a <em ref="Pictures">picture gallery</em> Topography

This page is part of a set of three linked pages, the other two being: test2.sgm, and test3.sgm. This page and test2.sgm contain links to images. Test3.sgm contains lists of some of my favorite books, art, etc.

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This is the first paragraph in the Second Section of this test (which is also a text...) document....

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 Other places to go in this SGML page web
  • Go to test2.sgm, to see another set of images, including examples of my Envelope Art. (There are additional links to test2.sgm at 2 other places in this file).
  • Go to test3.sgm, for examples of SGML tables, which I use there to list some of my favorite books, movies, and other things.
    • Some code to test intra- and inter-document linking, Etc.

    This is the first paragraph in the fourth section of this test (which is also a text...) document. In this sentence, we shall test some links, both to and from. The first link in the preceding sentence links to this document's title. The second link (the arrow after "to") links to near the top of the first paragraph in the Second Section. The final link target is linked to from the "link to" link near the end of the Seventh Section. The "link to" in the Seventh Section also links to the link target in the word "text" in the first sentence of this paragraph.

    And, last but not least, here is a link to another document: test2.sgm (fear not, that document has a link back to this document, so you won't get lost).

    Substantive content (A brief essay)

    The reader may suspect that the author has an interest in reflexive phenomena. From the technical content of this document, it may not be clear, but my interest is not in Escher-ish perceptual tricks on sheets of paper, but in self-reflective -- preferably socially self-reflective -- patterns of social interaction, in which as Marx said, men make their lives on the basis of conditions they have not made.

    Thus I find The Tower of Babel, Rabelais' Abbey of Theleme, Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg , and revolutionaries, such as Thomas Jefferson, interesting. I consider Edmund Husserl's "The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology" (including his Vienna Lecture of 1935) a foundational and guiding text.... I honor my undergraduate teacher, John Wild, who emphasized the importance of: openness to otherness, in all the phenomena of life. I am currently (30 Jun 97) reading Christopher Alexander's books on the role of pattern languages in the constitution and unfolding of social life, which resonate with Suzanne Langer's emphasis on cultivating the associational auras of the ordinary things of daily life.

    I am interested to develop and participate in the cultivation of forms of life that endeavor to be self-accountable, self-grounding, self-improving..., and which thematically aim to contibute to enhancing the quality of life for all persons, i.e.: Everyman. All such efforts begin in and ever again seek to re-new their focus and their always trepidant substance, in dialog.

    Prove all things; hold fast that which is good

     A picture gallery

    You can click on the icons associated with the following descriptions to see selected images from my WEB site.

  • Hermann Broch's bookplate (from the Yale University Beinecke Library Broch archive) .
  • The tombstone of a building demolition contractor (in the shape of a wrecking ball, but looks like an architectural fantasy from the one of the French Enlightenment architects Boullee or LeDoux)

    Albert Volk's grave site, Valhalla, New York, USA.

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  • An architectural design project I did in the Harvard Career Discovery Program, July 1981. Task was to design a building to house a single rare book. My design involved a raised, air-conditioned "cube", situated atop the rubble of a burnt-out bulding, such as would have been left behind by General Sherman on his march through Georgia in the American Civil War. The single window in the building faced West (toward the chimney...). The theme of the design was the decline of Western culture in our time .
  • My 2 Maine Coon cats, Abiko , and Jethra .
  • Martinus Nijhoff's old publisher's device ("colophon") . One of the bases of my thinking is Husserlean Phenomenology; Martinus Nijhoff published many phenomenological texts (such as Husserl's "Cartesian Meditations" and Alfred Schutz's Collected Papers...). I am also fond of this design, both for its simplicity, and for its simple message of hope.
  • A picture taken, in 1997, with my Olympus D-300L digital camera, of a picture I took, in 1984, with a 35mm camera, of a 19th Century picture of "The Forbidden City" (Peking). (Original in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art)
    • Some more code to test intra- and inter-document linking, Etc.

    Testing SGML's hyperlink capabilities: We will here link to the x in the Fourth Section and also the "links" link, and the from there.... It seems to me that one of the main things missing from HTML is a multi-link capability, i.e., the ability to invoke a menu of URLs to go to, in addition to going directly to one URL; perhaps the syntax could be as simple as Where do you think you might want to go now? ]]>

    Finally, here is yet another link to that other document: test2.sgm (fear not, that document has a link back to this document, so you won't get lost).

    Afterwords

    Thank you for visiting my SGML sample WEB page(s). I will appreciate any comments and/or suggestions you may wish to e-mail to me, at: bradmcc@cloud9.net.

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