Four Winds

A Quilt Version—

A Mathematical Version—

Related remarks —

• Sunday's Log24 post Cuatro Vientos  on Jack Kerouac
• The phrase dies natalis  in Log24
• Another weblog in 2004 on the dies natalis  of Jack Kerouac.
  That weblog gives the dies  as Oct. 20, but other sources
   say  Kerouac died at 5:15 AM on Oct. 21.
• A Log24 post on Oct. 20 last year related to the Oct. 21 date.

For the eight-limbed star at the top of the quaternion array above,
see "Damnation Morning" in this journal—

She drew from her handbag a pale grey gleaming implement
that looked by quick turns to me like a knife, a gun, a slim
sceptre, and a delicate branding iron—especially when its
tip sprouted an eight-limbed star of silver wire.
“The test?” I faltered, staring at the thing.
“Yes, to determine whether you can live in the fourth
dimension or only die in it.”
— Fritz Leiber, short story, 1959

See also Feb. 19, 2011.