J.P. Zorn redividus

J.P. Zorn posted a seemingly banal photo of a suburban hill.

Unlike D.M., I relish this kind of landscape. Helps, maybe, to think of it as an image beamed back by a probe sent here by MASA (Martian Areologists and Science Animals). It's a landscape full of human influence, though you don't see the people involved. A landscaped landscape. The low contrast is matched by low-intensity graphical appeal, if you see what I mean. Nothing about it shouts. The music is barely audible. The poetry doesn't rhyme. Yet we get enough out of it to make us suspect there's something behind the image.

It's often been pointed out that a lightly clad woman is more enticing to men than a naked one. This partakes of the same principle. (2/11/2004)