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Tina Jordan at EW.com yesterday: "E.L. Konigsburg— the author of one of my favorite childhood books, the brilliantly quirky mystery From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E….
(Continued from December 31st, 2012) "Principles before personalities." — AA saying Art Principles Part I: Part II: Baker's 1922 Principles of Geometry— Art Personalities
Meanwhile… Daily Princetonian @princetonian Related material: A sermon by the man named today the new President of Princeton. The sermon is from October 7, 2012. See also Log24…
"There is such a thing as a figure in four dimensions." — Adapted from a novel
Desargues' theorem according to a standard textbook: "If two triangles are perspective from a point they are perspective from a line." The converse, from the same book: "If…
This morning's previous post pictured the cover of a book titled "The Mystery of the Quantum World." That title, together with Peter Woit's post on Hawking yesterday, suggests…
"The suspension, as in solid space, The suspending hand withdrawn, would be An invisible gesture." — Wallace Stevens Part I… An image from this journal yesterday morning— Part…
Three interpretations: Via David Justice Via Oswald Veblen Via Billie Holiday
From The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens , John N. Serio, ed., "Stevens's Late Poetry," by B.J. Leggett, pp. 62-75, an excerpt from page 70: Click the above image…
(Continued from Seize the Dia, April 6) Two chess games by Fischer, against two brothers— 1956: "In this game, Fischer (playing Black) demonstrates noteworthy innovation and improvisation." — Wikipedia…