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The Grandmother Ship

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….

Abstraction

(Continued from December 31st, 2012) "Principles before personalities." — AA saying Art Principles Part I: Part II: Baker's 1922 Principles of Geometry— Art Personalities

Stoppard Update

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…

Sermon

"There is  such a thing as a figure in four dimensions." — Adapted from a novel

The Large Desargues Configuration

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…

M Theory

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…

Suspense

"The suspension, as in solid space, The suspending hand withdrawn, would be An invisible gesture."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…

Raffiniert

Three interpretations: Via  David Justice Via  Oswald Veblen Via  Billie Holiday

Space Itself

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…

Occupy Space

(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…