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From a weblog post today— "one of our great achievements as a species is the rhetorical question. indeed, this is what separates us from the higher animals. it…
"Michael Smith… is currently working on a novel and a three-part history of MI6 entitled: SIX: A History of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service ." And then there is… From a reader…
From the obituary of a Bletchley Park codebreaker who reportedly died on Armistice Day (Monday, Nov. 11)— "The main flaw of the Enigma machine, seen by the inventors…
Backstory : The Talented Related material: Parts of a World and Ace in the Hole.
New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley last night at 10 PM ET on the opening of a play by Samuel Beckett — "The cause of this incontinent mirth? The dirtiest joke…
Related material: The comments on a Log24 post of Nov. 6, 2013, remarks by Michael Worton on the tree in "Waiting for Godot," images from the film "The Tree…
For and by composer Sir John Tavener, 69, who reportedly died today. Update of 8:28 PM ET Nov. 12— The obituary link above is to The Telegraph. Here…
"DEVIL – MUSIC 20 pages of incidental music written at school for G. K. Chesterton's play MAGIC by D. Coxeter." See also… Related material — Chesterton + Magic in…
Or: The Nutshell What about Pascal? For some background on Pascal's mathematics, not his wager, see… Richmond, H. W., "On the Figure of Six Points in Space of…
The first two pages of a 1989 book by George Steiner— (Click to enlarge) See also yesterday's posts The Field of the Possible and Abstraction. Compare and contrast…