22 July

Born in 1882 – Edward Hopper, American artist.

Above: Sun in an Empty Room, 1963

Also, born in 1893, American psychiatrist and author Karl Menninger.

In the Two we experience the very essence of number more intensely than in other numbers, that essence being to bind many together into one, to equate plurality and unity. Our mind divides the world into heaven and earth, day and night, light and darkness, right and left, man and woman, I and you—and the more strongly we sense the separation of these poles, whatever they may be, the more powerfully do we also sense their unity.