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For St. Fergal O'Neill

Also known as Virgil the Geometer. " Art, in other words, can speak to social conflicts, and not always how you might think. Yvonne Scott, a professor here…

ART WARS

Continued from Pensée  (Feb. 10, 2012).* Nick Paumgarten in The New Yorker  of Dec. 2, 2013— " When one speaks of Zwirner the gallerist, one is speaking as much of…

Object Relation*

From two posts of June 14, 2013: * Click on Lois for the title.

Beans Talk II

Continued from yesterday afternoon and evening. To the chief musician : Que cantaba el Rey David.

Confessional

In memory of a composer who reportedly died on Thursday, November 21, 2013: This journal on that date. Related material, for mature audiences only, "based on the confessional poetry…

Beans Talk

Peter Keepnews on the late jazz musician Chico Hamilton: "He was a charter member of the baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan’s quartet, which helped lay the groundwork for the cool…

Edward Frenkel, Your Order Is Ready.

Backstory: Frenkel's Metaphors and Waitressing for Godot. In a recent vulgarized presentation of the Langlands program, Edward Frenkel implied that number theory and harmonic analysis were, before Langlands came along, quite…

Waitressing for Godot

Suggested by a theater review titled "Filling the Existential Void." Companion piece: A Poem for Pinter.

VoilĂ 

"Waiting for Ogdoad" continues… "You want Frye's with that?" — A recent humanities graduate.  Frye's backstory:  Ogdoad.  Other material suggested by the previous post and by the time…

Into the Bereshit*

From a slide show of Pinter's "No Man's Land"—  * Footnotes on the title— For Hirst:  Wikipedia. For Spooner:  Into the Woods. For the groundlings: Urban Dictionary.