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(The final quote above is bogus. Stevens did write "Death is the mother of beauty," but the "perishable" part is from a lesser poet, Billy Collins.) For the duende …
For a conceptual artist who reportedly died on Thursday, July 25, 2013— Related material: Art Saint and Wisdom & Metaphor .
Yesterday afternoon's post, combined with Tom Wolfe's remarks on conceptual art quoted here July 23 and an obituary this morning for a conceptual artist who reportedly died on July…
The title is taken from Isak Dinesen— See the previous post, which posed the question, "Stylist or fraud?" Stylist and fraud— The stylist: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Society of Jesus The fraud…
Maya Alexandri on September 7, 2009— … Blixen herself may have cut closer to the truth in her final story in Winter's Tales , "A Consolatory Tale" [1942]. In it,…
For mathematician Julia Robinson, who died on this date in 1985, and her sister Constance Reid, who died on October 14, 2010— A search suggested by the "cosmic dippiness" of a 1998…
Today is the dies natalis of group theorist Walter Feit. "The Steiner systems S (5,6,12) and S (5,8,24) are remarkable combinatorial configurations unlike any others. Their automorphism groups are…
For a memorable eccentric who reportedly died on Wednesday, July 24, 2013— A photo collection of other eccentrics at halmos.tumblr.com with a concluding note dated April 10, 2013 Log24 posts from that…
(Simplicity continued) "Understanding a metaphor is like understanding a geometrical truth. Features of various geometrical figures or of various contexts are pulled into revealing alignment with one another…
(Continued from July 16) From the schedule of an April 2013 philosophical conference: Why should anyone care what Zwicky thinks? 1. Her writings. In particular, Plato as Artist . 2….