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Ten Years After

Rock guitarist Alvin Lee, a founder of the band Ten Years After , died on March 6, 2013 (Michelangelo's birthday). In his memory, a figure from a post Ten Years…

Final Club

For Robert Langdon  (Angels & Demons )… See Final Club (Wikipedia) and Kiss Club (this journal).

The Red Pill

On the late Hugo Chávez: "A couple of years later, I asked him why, so late in the day, he had decided to adopt socialism. He acknowledged that…

Midnight in Pynchon*

"It is almost as though Pynchon wishes to repeat the grand gesture of Joyce’s Ulysses…." — Vladimir Tasic on Pynchon's Against the Day Related material: Tasic's Mathematics and…

But Seriously…

(Continued) "Now this is fairly serious stuff." As is this.

Occupy Galois Space

Continued from February 27, the day Joseph Frank died… "Throughout the 1940s, he published essays and criticism in literary journals, and one, 'Spatial Form in Modern Literature'— a…

Discourse

(Continued) "No puzzle has exercised more fascination upon writers interested in the history of mathematics." — Sir Thomas Little Heath, quoted by Mark Dominus in his journal "The Universe…

Life of Pi

Earlier… Princeton Harvard Eating — "But the tigers come at night, With their voices soft as thunder." — Les Miserables

Spinning in Infinity

(Continued from Jan. 13 and Feb. 19.) The founder of Graylock Press died at 96 in Bethesda on Feb. 19: For some background on the original Bethesda, see…

Graduate

In memory of a 1961 graduate of Beverly Hills High School who died today— last night's Eiger post and a tall white mountain.