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Part I: Paranoia " 'The Truman Show' did not single-handedly cause Truman delusions, any more than 'The Manchurian Candidate' caused Cold War paranoia. In the fifteen years since 'The Truman Show' was released, its premise has…
“ ‘A babbled of green fields” — Phrase attributed to Shakespeare quoted here on September 15th From a New York Times piece online today, a quote promoting science and technology, and a quote on…
"Righty tighty, lefty loosey." — Folk saying See also a figure from this journal on Lee Marvin's birthday in 2011 — The square root of the former is the latter.
(Continued. For the title, see Lucero in this journal.) See Newton in several works of literary art: Dürrenmatt's The Physicists (spoiler alert) Newton at a Royal Wedding in Westminster Abbey…
Peter J. Cameron attributes failure of his usual link to the NASA "Astronomy Picture of the Day" (APOD) to the US government shutdown, and gives a substitute link. Here…
(Continued from Monday, Sept. 30) "The art of the playwright consists in employing, to the most effective degree possible, accident within the action." — Friedrich Dürrenmatt, author of The…
A link from 48 hours ago : Morphean adventures. Related material for Wallace Stevens's birthday : Being's Road.
See also "Red October" in this journal.
Click the above for some music and literary-philosophical remarks. Related material: This journal on February 3 and 4, 2010.
"It's solution, dissolution." — Walter White The Hallowed Crucible… Continues.