King and Queen

With the King and Queen of Sweden after the Nobel banquet... 

It was a week before a messenger from my father brought news he and Antony were both safe at York, and the King and Queen were fled to the Scottish king. 

The road was widening now that we were past the great sprawl of the abbey mills. The walls of Stratford Abbey itself were ahead, and once more we were surrounded by men and ladies. Soon we must part, so as to enter its magnificence clad in our own, in silence and glory, as King and Queen of the land. 

Termites are living in rigid societies in which morphologically specialized individuals execute specific tasks king and queen reproduce, the workers forage and feed. Finally, soldiers of many termite species are morphologically and physiologically specialized for defense [182]. 

Actually, Seraphina hadn t seen her husband in such good spirits for years. For the next few weeks he fairly crackled with warmth and energy. She didn t even have to explain away her betrayal Cagliostro was convinced that she d been tricked by disciples to whom he d given his love and trust. They d been bribed by the Bourbons, he said, because the French king and queen feared him above any man, and rightly so. 

Bohr returned to Copenhagen in 1945. He continued to do some research, but much of his time was now taken up by administrative work. The institute was being expanded, and new equipment was being installed. Plans had to be made concerning the lines of research that would be pursued at the expanded institute. He had other administrative duties as well. He had been president of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters since 1939, and by now he was very much a celebrity, one of the best-known people in Denmark. The king and queen of Denmark, cabinet ministers, and foreign ambassadors all came to his home for dinner. And of course he also continued to have numerous visits by physicists. 

Executed immediately following the Nude Descending a Staircase, this oil [MD-70] represents the development of the same idea. The title, King and Queen, was once again borrowed from chess, but the players of 1911, my two brothers [in Joueurs d Echecs MD-57], have been eliminated and were replaced by the chess-pieces of the King and Queen. 

Asked by Cabanne if there was a tie between the Nude Descending a Stair case and [the drawing of] The King and Queen Traversed by Swift Nudes, Duchamp s reply was that there was... 

For an interpretation complementing mine, namely that Duchamp s King and Queen pictures illustrate contemporary interest in the invisible reality of mat-ter itself electrons, radioacitivity, and even alchemy, see Henderson, Duchamp in Context, chapter 2. 

Ibid., 83-85, Mesure de la 4e dimension. Since one finds the verb traverser appearing repeatedly in fourth-dimensional publications of the period we have, accordingly, another fourth-dimensional explanation to complement our previous alchemical interpretation (in chapter 4) of certain traversed Kings and Queens (cf. MD-69, MD-70). 

Within an instant I was at Versailles. Benjamin Franklin was in conference with the king and queen of France. The royal couple were elaborately gowned in crowns, jewels, satins, and furs. Franklin, however, had a better sense of humor, and the members of the entourage were giving him their attention. 

Walking, Alexander Archipenko, 1912 The Three Shades, Auguste Rodin, 1880 King and Queen, Henry Moore, 1952-1953 Statuette Dressed Ballerina, Edgar Degas, 1922... 

FOUNTAIN. - Three fountains represent the three principles. Fountain where king and queen come to bathe themselves has the same signification as bath, which see Bath. 

MARRIAGE. - Symbol of conjunction, union of Sulphur and Mercury, of the king and queen. The priest who performs the ceremony represent Salt, means of union between the two other principles. 

The Knave in the pack of cards, which, when trump, takes both King and Queen, is a symbol of Salt. He or IT is a sort of Priest uniting the two active principles - or you may say he stimulates action between them, that is between two negative (inert) principles, thus ultimately bringing the Work to perfection. John (I John 5.7, 8) alludes to this correspondence when he says "There are three that bear record in heaven the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost, and there are three that bear witness on earth the spirit, the water and the blood, and these three agree in one."... 

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