It goes without saying that mainstream ACADEMIA rarely produces any significant work that equates Art with the power of Mathematics and natural sciences. Therefore, GEB (Gödel Esher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid) is a pure exception. GEB inspired me to take all of art-math-music in one sweeping gulp unashamedly, a feeling I would have been quite unwilling to admit in public, had it not been for GEB. This year I have decided to make another attempt to bring art-math-magic (read music here) within the scope of a single essay. The plan is to explore Aldous Huxley's novel Chrome Yellow with use of yellow as a symbol of spirituality and scientific investigation and thereafter connect it with discovery of this synthetic colour (chrome yellow) in the late 19th century. This is not the first time that a Logophilite will do such an experiment - it was done several times before - mixing threefold fields into one continuous text that enmeshes all forms of creative energy. The accompanying photograph shows Adolph Gottlieb's 1966 painting in an art gallery. Enjoy. (Contributed by SM)
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