'In his 2001 book The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan Fletcher discusses the importance of exemplifying "space" as a substance:
Space is substance. Cézanne painted and modelled space. Giacometti sculpted by "taking the fat off space". Mallarmé conceived poems with absences as well as words. Ralph Richardson asserted that acting lay in pauses... Isaac Stern described music as "that little bit between each note - silences which give the form"... The Japanese have a word (ma) for this interval which gives shape to the whole. In the West we have neither word nor term. A serious omission.'
I like the Isaac Stern quote, 'that little bit between each note - silences which give the form'.
When I finally got to 'May', I learned that today, May 10th, is Golden Spike Day celebrating the 1869 completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
Officials from the east and west took their respective trains to meet in Utah (Promontory Summit) where the link connecting the two sides occurred. The meeting was celebrated with the installation of ceremonial spikes, thus, Golden Spike Day.
(I assume this 'first' is for the entire continent of North America. I was unable to locate [brief search] the date the Canadian transcontinental railroad was completed. Mexico's railroads tend to run more north-south.)
This image is of a 1944 US postage stamp celebrating the 75th anniversary of Golden Spike Day, is a part of the public domain, and is provided by Wikimedia Commons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Spike
This image of a US 2007 Utah Quarter is in the public domain, provided by Wikimedia Commons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2007_UT_Proof_Rev.png
(1896 is the year that Utah became a state.)
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