The Blue Flower (German: Blaue Blume) is a central symbol of Romanticism. It stands for desire, love, and the metaphysical striving for the infinite and unreachable.
Local blue-blooming flowers such as the Chicory or Cornflower are often seen as parallels to the "blue flower,
German author Novalis first used the symbol in his unfinished novel of formation, entitled Heinrich von Ofterdingen. After contemplating a meeting with a stranger, the young Heinrich von Ofterdingen dreams about blue flowers which call to him and absorb his attention. (The Japanese translation of the novel was entitled Aoi Hana (青い花), literally "blue flower", emphasizing the motif.)
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff wrote a poem called Die blaue Blume (The blue flower). Adelbert von Chamisso saw the core of Romanticism in the motif, and Goethe searched for the "Urpflanze" or "original plant" in Italy, which in some interpretations could refer to the blue flower.
English writer Penelope Fitzgerald's historical novel The Blue Flower is based on Novalis's early life. In John le Carré's 1968 novel A Small Town in Germany, the character Bradfield says, "I used to think I was a Romantic, always looking for the blue flower." (Pan edition, p. 286 – chap. 17) Substance D, a fictitious drug in Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel A Scanner Darkly, is derived from a plant with blue flowers.
In his fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, American author George R. R. Martin uses the blue flower as a reoccurring symbol to represent the love affair between Prince Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. In one instance, Rhaegar crowns Lyanna as the "Queen of Love and Beauty" of the Tournament of Harrenhal with winter roses, described as blue flowers, passing over his own wife, Princess Elia of Dorne.
Manga artist and author Takako Shimura's manga series Aoi Hana is about idealistic, Romantic-style affection between female high school students. In the anime Blood+ the otherworldly blue flower is the symbol of evil Diva.
"Blue Flower" is the name of a song by the British avant-garde pop band of the early 1970s, Slapp Happy, later covered by the 1990s indy rock bands Pale Saints and Mazzy Star. "Blue Flowers" is a song by the alternative MC, Kool Keith (AKA Dr. Octagon), on his 1996 album, Dr. Octagonecologyst.
In 1960 Werner Helwig published the book The Blue Flower of the Wandervogel (Die blaue Blume des Wandervogels) a history of the youth movement. Within the movement, a number of folk songs used the motif.
In the movie follow-up to David Lynch's television series Twin Peaks, entitled Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, two FBI agents are informed about their upcoming task through a woman named Lil. On her lapel is a tiny, artificial blue rose, clearly symbolic of something; but when Sam asks, Chet simply replies, "But I can't tell you about that."
The rapper Kool Keith (in his Dr. Octagon persona) released a single entitled "Blue Flowers" as part of the 1996 album Dr._Octagonecologyst.
Blue flowers are featured in the 2005 film Batman Begins. In it, blue flowers are used as the source of a fear-intensifying hallucinogenic drug. The drug is used by Ra's al Ghul and Dr. Jonathan Crane (the Scarecrow), who plan to terrorize Gotham City by weaponizing the drug into a concentrated powder form and release it into the city's water supply.
Blue flowers are again used as the source of the fictitious drug Substance D in the 2006 adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel A Scanner Darkly.
James and Ruth Bauer, husband and wife collaborative team, wrote an unconventional music theatre piece entitled The Blue Flower at the turn of the 21st century. Speaking through liberally fictionalized versions of artists Max Beckmann, Franz Marc, and Hannah Hoch as well as pivotal female scientific figure Marie Curie, the piece works with the romantic significance of the blue flower as it meditates on the brutal political and cultural turmoil of World War I, the short lived Weimar Republic, and Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the Nazi Party.
Seventeen is the 7th prime number. The next prime is nineteen, with which it forms a twin prime. 17 is the sum of the first four primes. 17 is the sixth Mersenne prime exponent, yielding 131071. 17 is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1.
17 is the third Fermat prime, as it is of the form 222 + 1, and it is also a Proth prime. Since 17 is a Fermat prime, heptadecagons can be drawn with compass and ruler. This was proven by Carl Friedrich Gauss.[1] Another consequence of 17 being a Fermat prime is that it is not a Higgs prime for squares or cubes; in fact, it is the smallest prime not to be a Higgs prime for squares, and the smallest not to be a Higgs prime for cubes.
17 is the only positive Genocchi number that is prime, the only negative one being −3. It is also the third Stern prime.
As 17 is the least prime factor of the first twelve terms of the Euclid–Mullin sequence, it is the thirteenth term.
Seventeen is the aliquot sum of two numbers, the odd discrete semiprimes 39 and 55 is the base of the 17-aliquot tree.
There are exactly seventeen two-dimensional space (plane symmetry) groups. These are sometimes called wallpaper groups, as they represent the seventeen possible symmetry types that can be used for wallpaper.
Like 41, the number 17 is a prime that yields primes in the polynomial n2 + n + p, for all positive n < p − 1.
In the Irregularity of distributions problem, consider a sequence of real numbers between 0 and 1 such that the first two lie in different halves of this interval, the first three in different thirds, and so forth. The maximum possible length of such a sequence is 1.
in science, the atomic number of chlorine is 17.
- "Seventeen" was the original name of The Beatles song "I Saw Her Standing There" which begins with the lyric "Well, she was just seventeen if you know what I mean."
- "17", a B-Side by Shiina Ringo on the "Tsumi to Batsu" single.
- The title of the song "17" by the Smashing Pumpkins. It is 17 seconds long, with no vocals, but comes with a poem which read at a standard speed will finish at the end of the song. This song is also a musical allusion to another Smashing Pumpkins work called "Blissed and Gone" which references 17 in the lines 'Sweet 17, sour 29' and 'I had no cause, just 17 days of rain'.
- "17", a song recorded by Winger.
- "17", a song by yourcodenameis:milo.
- According to Leon Kass, 17 has some significant meaning (as yet not known exactly) in the book of Genesis.[5]
- In the Yasna of Zoroastrianism seventeen chapters were written by Zoroaster himself, these are the Gathas.
- The number of the raka'ahs that Muslims perform during Salah on a daily basis.
- The number of surat al-Isra in the Qur'an.
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