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Up and Down

Heraclitus, Fragment 60 (Diels number): The way up and the way down is one and the same. ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή hodòs áno káto mía kaì houté — http://www.heraclitusfragments.com/B60/index.html…

Conundrum

Click to enlarge — Related material — El Lucero Puro .

Les Mots

Two links from the above post — Gamalog and Separatrix. The latter word has a technical meaning in mathematics. It also has a non-technical meaning, as explained below….

The Story Theory of Truth

(Continued) At right above, a possible image of Queen Isabella I  of Castile, attributed to Gerard David. At left above, a Hollywood version. Happy birthday to Chris Wallace…

Tombstones

From a post of Oct. 13, 2009 linked to in Friday morning's post "A Wake"— See also some related reading.

Deconstruction

"                          … Had they deceived us  Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders, Bequeathing us merely a…

A Wake

See a post of October 13, 2009 (the upload date for the video below), and consider the line… "I bet he's out there shinin' like a diamond don't…

Continued

  "… the walkway between here and there would be colder than a witch’s belt buckle. Or a well-digger’s tit. Or whatever the saying was. Vera had been…

Nobel Jam

From this date five years ago in The Guardian— Alice Munro: An Appreciation by Margaret Atwood— "The central Christian tenet is that two disparate and mutually exclusive elements— …

Master Class*

For James Joyce, author of Dubliners … See the posts of the Feast of St. Francis, 2013, and today's New York Times — * A phrase used here before.