It was becoming increasingly obvious to Leonardo that Vitruvius was trying to give him another key to between. The superimposition of the figure kept bluring, and he always saw it on a vessel he did not recognize. (Time would later reveal that the vessel in question was actually
Zhangsun’s Funery Urn (See Cut-Up Painting # 83)
The artist who would later - much later - receive this information would have to interpret it as best she knew how. Leonardo had the feeling her attempts would be clumsy and he was relieved he would not be around to witness her cut-up painting, as the information appeared clutsy to him too. But in any event, he sat down on the 5thAugust 1490, by the light of a flickering candle and started his version of the Vetruvian Man. To his great surprise, he learned that 8 heads make up the ideal human body. This was quite astounding to him as there were very few such specimens currently walking the streets of Florence. In mirror script (done so for fear of discovery by the Moorish Darwish, he hid the following clue:
Similarly, in the members of a temple there ought to be the greatest harmony in the symmetrical relations of the different parts to the general magnitude of the whole.
The Traveller was astounded - THAT was the clue to the unstable supported bridge beams - the proportions were incorrect! She pulled the Red Giraffe away from his pink gin cocktail and said “WE NEED TO GO”!
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