The whole world

...thing in the last post likely came to me from a poem by Edward Lear of "The Owl and the Pussycat" fame. Lear, known for his nonsense verse, was also a painter whose landscapes - Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Sunrise being a fine example - rely just as much on rhyme, rhythm and nonsense. The poet, I think, is most transparent in his watercolors. In them I see playful lines, though some seem to be escaping.