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Outsider Art

"… Galois was a mathematical outsider…." — Tony Mann, "head of the department of mathematical sciences, University of Greenwich, and president, British Society for the History of Mathematics," in…

Outsider

The late Colin Wilson appears at the head of this afternoon's New York Times  obituaries — Margalit Fox's description this afternoon of  Wilson's first book, from 1956— "The Outsider  had an aim…

Howl (continued)

See the Telegraph  obituary of Jim Hall and a post on Charlie Christian (and others). The inclusion of D. H. Lawrence in that post suggests a review of…

The Well-Tempered Monolith

"My God, it's full of numbers!"

Blue Note

For the late Jim Hall— Backstory:   Icon, 1:44 PM ET today. Update of 11 PM ET Dec. 10, 2013 —  For all  the notes, see Da Capo  (11 AM today)…

Wittgenstein's Tesseract

See also last night's "Pink Champagne on Ice" post. The "ice" in that post's title refers to the white lines forming a tesseract in the book cover's background— "icy white and crystalline," as…

Icon

"Let’s love, and kill like 17 now." — AFI song, soundtrack of "City of Bones" See also Comic Strip Dead and Llewyn Davis in this journal.

Da Capo*

An upload date — Related material —   That date in this journal  Zettel  (in last night's 1 AM post) "Metaphor instead of mathematics" * The title is a musical…

Pink Champagne on Ice

The title refers to a post of April 26, 2009.

Mirrors, Mirrors

For Blancanieves, Elizabeth Taylor, and Lily Collins. See also this journal on the above upload date— June 21, 2012.