Art
In 1972, he claimed to be visited by an angel who warned him that the end of world was coming soon. Armstrong began to construct various "doomsday calendar" calculating machines that would attempt to determine the exact date. Many of the calendars are made of wood and have clocklike designs with hands used to calculate dates.
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““Art” is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers.... What we call art is a game.”
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