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Structure and Character

(Continued from May 4, 2013) "I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain" — Warren Zevon…

Howl

For Warren Zevon, who died ten years ago today — Aooo!

Down Under

"If I am to have a meeting it shall be down, down in the invisible, and the moment I re-emerge it shall be alone. In the visible world I…

Space

"A vast space that travels down to the bedrock upon which the towers were built, the museum winds its way deeper and deeper underground, taking visitors on a…

Oblivion

(Continued) "Born of blood and tribulation"  — Gangs of New York "Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had…

An Effective Team:

Underworld and Evolution This journal on 9/11, 2009 — Poster for Kate Beckinsale in a film released on 9/11, 2009 — For Qohen Leth — A quotation from this journal on…

Kernel and Glow

"The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his…

Moonshine II

(Continued from yesterday) The foreword by Wolf Barth in the 1990 Cambridge U. Press reissue of Hudson's 1905 classic Kummer's Quartic Surface covers some of the material in yesterday's post Moonshine. The…

Secretary

Margalit Fox in The New York Times  this evening— Judith Daniels, the founding editor in chief of Savvy , the first glossy magazine aimed at executive women, died on…

Moonshine

Unexpected connections between areas of mathematics previously thought to be unrelated are sometimes referred to as "moonshine."  An example—  the apparent connections between parts of complex analysis and groups related…