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Working Backwards

"Warming to the question of what it means to read a poem backward…." — Essayist in a New Yorker  weblog on July 11, 2013 “Death itself would start working…

Pageant

Last night's 9:29 PM (ET) post featured the phrase "This way to the egress." Last night's 10 PM post featured two deaths: The author of  The Best Christmas…

Wire

The Inner Ring

The title refers to Brad Leithauser's remarks in the previous post. This way to the egress.

Circles

A sort of poem by Gauss and Weyl — Click the circle for the context in Weyl's Symmetry . For related remarks, see the previous post. A literary excursus— Brad Leithauser…

Ein Bild

A rhetorical question from this journal— "Und was für ein Bild des Christentums ist dabei herausgekommen?" A rhetorical answer from this journal (June 5, 2006)— Material closely related to the above…

Denomination

"In Princeton every Sunday he would walk  one and a half miles from his home to buy the Sunday New York Times , and so, according to his daughters, his church denomination was…

Speaking of Dates…

See also 11 February 2012 in this journal, as well as the link in last evening's post to 2 March 2012, in the context of synchronicity.

Diagon Alley

You say goodbye, I say … A YouTube video uploaded on March 2, 2012— This  journal on the date of the above video's uploading— March 2, 2012: "…des…

Nachthexen

From a Telegraph  obituary about a death on July 8, 2013: "The pilots’ tactic was to fly to within a certain distance of the target, and cut their…