Real Academic Quote of the Day

"A pretzel and ear are, once their differences in size have been eliminated by turning them into images, an almost exact match. A nose and popcorn, however, is a pairing which one might perhaps be forgiven for seeing as a little bit more Freudian. For one thing the principle of contiguity comes into play, in that the nose is near the mouth. It may be that what got Baldessari to use the combination was an olfactory association. I've seen him prepare popcorn (which is good for you) and eat it while watching television lots of times. I've never seen him eat a pizza (which is not) in my life. Which might mean that he is genuinely aroused by the smell of hot popcorn, and has an experiential relationship to the one but a merely visual use for the other. But it will not have escaped his attention either that on its way to the mouth the popcorn passes near to the nose, and that it is small enough to actually fit into a nostril." - from Baldessari - RMS W VU: Wallpaper, Lamps, and Plants