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Or: Being There (A sequel to last night's Lyric Intelligence ) William Deresiewicz reviews Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 novel Player Piano : The novel’s prescience is chilling. Six years before…
Тут Аполлон — идеал, там Ниобея — печаль…. The source: The link from St. Lucia's Day to "Congregated Light," and the link from there to the Pushkin verse….
Review: Cubic models of finite geometries display an interplay between Euclidean and Galois geometry. Related literary remarks: Congregated Light.
… The sequel to Vibrations Charles Taylor, "Epiphanies of Modernism," Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self (Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477) — “… the object sets…
… Or: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Embedding This journal on the morning of Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012: Marilyn Monroe and her music…
(Continued from 2 PM ET Tuesday) “… the object sets up a kind of frame or space or field within which there can be epiphany.” — Charles Taylor, "Epiphanies…
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,…
In memory of Charles Rosen: Related material: The Magic Square in Doctor Faustus (October 10th, 2012) Elementary Finite Geometry (August 1st, 2012) The Space of Horizons (August 7th,…
"The study of musical form is an attempt to understand the way in which musical gestures can be prolonged and brought to a conclusion. The work of a…
The following passage is suggested by last night's "Eve's Menorah" and by today's "Review of Leonardo Article" — Click image to enlarge.