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Click for clearer image. From Willard Van Orman Quine Guest Book Volume 1— "May 7, 1997 'McX and Wyman' — In his essay 'On What There Is', Willard Quine introduces…
On St. Andrew's Day. A Connery adventure in Kuala Lumpur— For another Kuala Lumpur adventure, see today's update to "In Defense of Plato's Realism"— The July 5, 2007, post…
Continued from October 30 (Devil's Night), 2013. “In a sense, we would see that change arises from the structure of the object.” — Theoretical physicist quoted in a…
"These are odd facts…." — G. H. Hardy, quoted in the previous post, "Centered" Other odd facts: If n is odd, then the object at the center of the…
"I have now come to the most difficult part of my story." — George MacDonald "265" — Page number and centered square number "153" — Triangular number (as noted by…
For the birth date of C. S. Lewis and Madeleine L'Engle. THE GOLD KEY The speaker in this case is a middle-aged witch, me — tangled on my two…
From the cover of Anne Sexton's Transformations— "Her metaphoric strength has never been greater — really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter." — C. K. Williams Another dark lady: See…
From "Why Was New Haven Divided into Nine Squares?" "Of note on the Wadsworth Map of 1748 are… the Grammar School, the 'Goal' or jail…." Related material: Puritan in…
Continued from Deo Gratias , a post at noon last Saturday that featured blues singer R. L. Burnside. "It is a fresh spiritual that he defines" — "An Ordinary…
A Yale death between Saturday night and Sunday morning— See is not believed to have committed suicide, according to the New Haven Independent. At this time the professor's…