Quotes About Folding

THE ATTRACTOR OF HÉNON. A simple combination of folding and stretching produced an attractor that easy to compute yet still poorly understood by mathematicians. As thousands, the millions of points appear, more and more detail emerges. What appear to be single lines prove, on magnification, to be pairs, then pairs of pairs. Yet whether any two successive points appear nearby or far apart is unpredictable.

it folded and twisted, which would reveal how it interacted with other molecules.5

The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.

But the paneled room folded itself through a dozen impossible angles, tumbling away into cyberspace like an origami crane.

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All at once the exteriority of the world for the body that opens up to it, the distance of the things in front of this body, their absolute alterity, the body's folding back outside everything that it captures and yet its implication in the visible, the turning back of the visible upon itself that constitutes it as seeing and that causes it to perceive from the very foundation of being to which it adheres.

apparel, n.: There are times I don't mind doing the laundry, because folding your clothes reminds me of the shape of you.

Zip! Back to the mansion. Zip! to Market Square. Zip! and there was the castle yet again. She was getting the hang of it. Zip! Here was Upper Folding—but how did you stop? Zip! "Oh, confound it!" Sophie cried, almost in Marsh Folding again.

If you could fold a piece of paper 51 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.

His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.

Schneid die Gebetshand aud der Luft mit der Augen- schere kapp ihre Finger mit deinem Kuß: Gefaltetes geht jetzt atemberaubend vor sich. // Cut the payer-hand from the air with the eye- shears, lop its fingers off with your kiss: Now a folding takes place that takes your breath away -Last Poems, page 51

Join five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another. Then fold the sixth curtain over double at the front of the tent.

The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.