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Raiders of the Lost Symbols

See Lines of Symbols in this journal.

Einsatz für Pessach

Today's New York Times : "… potential recruits with the right skills have too often been heading for business, and those who do choose government work often go…

Brightness at Noon

The two symbols on the monolith from yesterday — — may, if one likes, be interpreted as standing for Damnation Morning and for the Windmill of Time (alternately,…

Art Wars:

Monolith for Maggie, continued from yesterday "The young woman counted— 'Otu, abua, ato, ano, ise, isii, asaa'— using what remained to her of the secret language…." — Opening…

The Dante Prize

(Damnation Morning, continued) For the late, great Bebo Valdés, who reportedly died on Friday in Stockholm: "Mr. Valdés never returned to Cuba. He played piano in Stockholm hotel lounges for…

Monolith for Maggie…

   … And for Deborah Mills   Related material: The Cloth.

Art History

Quoted in the March 13 post Blackboard Jungle: "Every morning you take your machete into the jungle and explore and make observations, and every day you fall more…

The Cloth

"Upon the death of the owner, the cloth may be used to construct a symbolic Ekpe house (the spirit meeting place) for the funeral." — Lowe Art Museum,…

Geometry of Göpel Tetrads (continued)

An update to Rosenhain and Göpel Tetrads in PG(3,2)  supplies some background from Notes on Groups and Geometry, 1978-1986, and from a 2002 AMS Transactions  paper.

Sequel to Rosencrantz

The title refers to the post of Monday, March 18, 2013: "I mean, where's it going to end?" — Rosencrantz in The Gospel     According to Tom…