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Pascal via Curtis

Click image for some background. Shown above is a rearranged version of the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) of R. T. Curtis ("A new combinatorial approach to M24," Math….

Reflections (continued)

From a search for Mirror-Play in this journal: That search was suggested by a much lengthier search, for Core, that itself was suggested by yesterday's post (on Katherine…

The Crucible

"Though we had many pieces, we did not have the whole. It was thirty years before we deciphered the formula. But we did it at last. There at night…

Soul of a Poet

"We buy it lock, stock, and shot glass" — Ebert on Newman's performance in "The Verdict."

A Philosopher's Stone

"Core" (in the original, Kern ) is perhaps not the best translation of hypokeimenon : See also Heidegger's original German: Related material: In this journal, "underlie" and "underlying."

Hammer Down

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/arts/ milo-oshea-irish-character-actor-dies-at-86.html

Last Things

Session guitarist Hugh McCracken died at 70 last week… Some say on Holy Thursday,  some say on Good Friday. If the former… If the latter… "Be very very…

Museum Piece

Roberta Smith in 2011 on the American Folk Art Museum (see previous post): "It could be argued that we need a museum of folk art the way we…

Mother Ship Wannabe

This morning's print edition of The New York Times  on the American Folk Art Museum: "The museum’s executive director, Anne-Imelda Radice, six months into the job, says her…

Hermite

A sequel to the quotation here March 8 (Pinter Play) of Joan Aiken's novel The Shadow Guests— Supposing that one's shadow guests are Rosenhain and Göpel (see March 18)… Hans…