13 October 2004. A serious joke for my presentation, today:

The idea, which I hope will need little explanation, is that the stress of the curve beginning a long division example causes a work of the very geometrical later Mondrian to fluster into circles--to unrectilinearate. A secondary possible interpretation is that the analytical process of long division with find repressed roundnesses in such ascetic works as Mondrian's (although I don't really consider this one of his all that ascetic).

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