(Cf. Sinatra’s birthday, 2004)

Joe Mantegna

NY Times obituaries Monday, March 16, 2009

One for his baby:

Ron Silver as Alan Dershowitz

Ron Silver as
Alan Dershowitz in
“Reversal of Fortune”
suggests the epigraph of
The Particulars of Rapture:
Reflections on Exodus

two stanzas from attorney
Wallace Stevens
quoted here yesterday afternoon.

One more for the road:

A link that appeared in a
different form in Saturday’s
Flowers for Barry“–

Speed the Plow.

This leads to
A Hanukkah Tale
containing the following:

The 16 Puzzle: transformations of a 4x4 square
This is, in turn, related to
Harvard’s Barry Mazur‘s recent
essay on time in mathematics
and literature (pdf).

L’Chaim.