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Brightness at Noon

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Theory

Sean French, in a March 1998 New Statesman review of a book on Wittgenstein and Hitler, discusses the author's theory that … "… the Jew who played the decisive role…

Animula

Dante, Purgatorio XVI Esce di mano a Lui, che la vagheggia      Prima che sia, a guisa di fanciulla,      Che piangendo e ridendo pargoleggia,  …

Board

In several posts now tagged Chessboard,  an I Ching chessboard image in which adjacent squares  have the Karnaugh property— — has been replaced by a picture of the original 1989 version in which the Karnaugh…

For Leonard Cohen Fans

Leading this morning's online New York Times   obituaries list is one for a leftist Episcopal priest. That obituary contains a link to a 1996 Times  story —  Old Friends, New Foes:…

Then We Take Berlin

See Love Ghost, from the date of Anita Björk's death. "Friends are often really enemies, and adversaries sometimes secret allies." — Wikipedia on the film Night People  (at…

Bend Sinister

This morning's New York Times  obituaries— These suggest a look at Solving Nabokov's Lolita Riddle , by Joanne Morgan (Sydney: Cosynch Press, 2005). That book discusses Lolita as a character like Lewis Carroll's…

Design Cubes

Continued from April 2, 2012. Some predecessors of the Cullinane design cubes of 1984 that lack the Cullinane cubes' symmetry properties— Kohs cubes (see 1920 article) Wechsler cubes…

For the Hollow Men

"Remember, remember the Fifth of November." Very well. See a post of Nov. 5, 2005, and the related posts Shadows, Cuber, Cube Partitions, and Cube Review.

A Very High Order

From a Washington Post  book review of The Essays of Leonard Michaels by Jonathan Yardley, Sunday, July 26, 2009— "Michaels said that his literary influences included Franz Kafka, Lord Byron…