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Chess

Norwegian, 22, Takes World Chess Title Quoted here on Thursday, the date of Kavli's death: Herbert Mitgang's New York Times   obituary of Cleanth Brooks— "The New Critics advocated close reading…

Storyville

From a poem in today's previous post: "Thou art not August unless I make thee so." This, along with two obituaries in this evening's online New York Times , suggests…

Fiction

From David Lavery's weblog today— It is?  Then a check of the rest of the poem seems in order. In the poem, Stevens speaks of… The impossible possible philosophers'…

ART WARS:

The Mitgang Menu Related material: This morning's 6 AM post and Wiener News. Update of 3:29 PM: From Herbert Mitgang's New York Times   obituary of Cleanth Brooks— "The…

Twelfth Step

Continued from 24 hours ago. From this morning's 6 AM (ET) post… "… you never made a Twelfth Step call on an active alcoholic by yourself, unless the alkie…

But It Rings…

"The shaving razor's cold and it stings." The above image is from Ulysses “Seen,”   adapted by Robert Berry from the novel by James Joyce.

Quad Rants

Continued from 24 hours ago. "AA had no rules but many traditions (that were, in fact, rules). One of the most ironclad was that you never made a…

Twelfth Step

To commemorate a death on November 12th— Santeria at Pomona. See also  November 12th in this journal as well as The Columbia Record Club.

Blackboard Jungle

(Continued) This morning's previous post concluded with a 1938 tune for entertainer Edward Frenkel. A more up-to-date musical offering:

Quad Rants

"… the message is clear on what is the main accomplishment of 19th [century] mathematics: complex function theory, comprising almost half the book. The heart and soul of this theory…