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The Word in the Desert

(Continued) For Trotsky's Birthday (Old Style), 2009— Related material: The Lone Pine Film History Museum,   Desert Quest Video— Lone Pine Death— (Click for further details.) See also…

College of the Desert

(Continued from 6:08 AM EDT yesterday and the day before) "Richard Elster was seventy-three, I was less than half his age. He’d invited me to join him here, old…

Translation

"Translation in the direction conceptual -> concrete and symbolic is much easier than translation in the reverse direction…." — The late William P. Thurston (See also "Atlas to…

The Cruelest Month

Last night's 10 PM post linked to an April 7, 2012, post that through a series of further links leads to Columbia Film Theory . For other film-related remarks,…

It's 10 PM…

Do you know where your children are? Continued from Plan 9 , a Log24 post of  9 PM Monday— See another weblog's April 7, 2012, post on God and…

Hexagram 18

(Continued from June 14, 2007) The late William P. Thurston on how mathematical knowledge may decay: "There are several obvious mechanisms of decay. The experts in a subject…

Dark and Stormy

It  was a  dark and stormy night. — A Wrinkle in Time  (brought  up to date)

Up to Date

"Plato's cave was brought up to date in 1978…." — Keith Devlin in Mathematics: The Science of Patterns Related material from yesterday: Touchy-Feely and Plan 9. "Plan 9…

Hope and Pope

Hope of Heaven , by John O'Hara— Avon paperback edition, 1947    Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present…

Plan 9

(Continued) See also "Or Only Die" and Corpus Hypercubus .