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This Feast of Pure Reason

The title is a quote from Stephen Dedalus during the Black Mass scene in Ulysses. (See May 12.) Material related to the Ulysses scene: Material related to pure…

Way to Go

Or: Death Edit Log24 on the reported date of Sturtevant’s death: Conceptual Art Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 2:01 AM Yesterday’s online New York Times  has the following quote: “The idea becomes…

Old Band

See also a Log24 search for “Zeppelin.”

Fanciful

From this journal last March:

"You're in my place."

The title is a line from a preview of the new film “The Double,” starring Jesse Eisenberg: Related lines from T. S. Eliot: Here is a place of…

Mathematics as Religion

On Edward Frenkel: "Math is, for him, 'a narrative' of human endeavor that shares much with art, music and religion. For instance, he describes new mathematical insights as…

Moonshine

“The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his…

Down the Up Rainbow*

Continued from this morning and from earlier posts. See also Abramson. Related material: Ken Auletta, “Why Jill Abramson Was Fired.” * Background for the title phrase: see Down +…

Death in Mathmagic Land

"It was our old friend Pythagoras who discovered that the pentagram was full of mathematics." — Narrator, "Donald in Mathmagic Land," Disney, 1959 … and it was Peter…

Two -Year College

See last night’s pentagram photo and a post from May 13, 2012. That post links to a little-known video of a 1972 film. A speech from the film was…