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Icastic imagery can be found in the models of the crystal ("the self-organizing system") and the flame ("order out of noise"), which Calvino steals from a debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky on the philosophy of science. Under the emblem of the crystal, language is a privileged place where a geometric pattern of meaning may grow despite surrounding disorder. Calvino names Wallace Stevens as a poet of the crystal. Under the emblem of the flame, on the other hand, language unifies disorder by consuming it. William S. Burroughs might be a partisan of the flame...
Clothing, such as suspenders, shirts, shoes, rings and tattoos, bearing the Harley-Davidson emblem are also an important part of the Harley image. They are symbols that a biker belongs to this "alienated counter-culture...
Harvard's five seniors on the ice had given four years of their youth to Harvard hockey. They had sewn their best days into the emblem at mid-ice, given thousands of numbered heartbeats to fighting in tense game after tense game...
...commemorate Mexico's Flag Day, two Golden Arches outlets in Mexico City papered their trays with place mats embossed with a representation of the national emblem. Eagle-eyed government agents swooped down and confiscated the disrespectful place mats. Saul Kahan, senior partner of McDonald's in Mexico, explained, "Our intention was never to give offense. It was to help Mexicans learn about their culture." Do not expect the chain to introduce a new dish called McEaglets anytime soon...
...first period, as Harvard was skating off the ice for the locker room, Johnny walked up to the Boston Bruin emblem at mid-ice and stopped...