New banner and icon for the blog

I've decided to try my hand at graphics design, to draw the banner and the icon for this blog. The following are some earlier drafts. Hopefully, they illuminate the meaning behind the blog's name.

Here are the results, the final designs for the banner and the icon. They're what appears on the blog now.

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