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An End in Itself

Continued from August 29th "The general mood was summed up by fan Debra Kay, who tweeted simply: 'R.I.P. Frederik Pohl. Thanks for the stories.'" — The Guardian  today Pohl…

"The Stone" Today Suggests…

A girl's best friend? The Philosopher's Gaze , by David Michael Levin, U. of California Press, 1999, in III.5, "The Field of Vision," pp. 174-175— The post-metaphysical question—question for…

Analogy

From The New York Times Sunday Book Review  of Sept. 1, 2013— THE GAMAL By Ciaran Collins Illustrated. 469 pp. Bloomsbury. Paper, $17. Reviewed by Katharine Weber Ten…

Argo

For the late actor Victor Argo, a religious symbol :  the Krauss Cross. Some backstory : "Now don't tell me… You're St. Peter."  — James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever For a life…

The Crossword Omen

August 30, 11:01 AM  Comment-Worthy August 30, 12:00 PM  Hymn August 30, 7:20 PM  Her August 31, 8:23 PM  What Where September 1, 5:48 AM  The Crossword Omen —…

What Where

The news item at lower right in the above image, with the phrase "surprise U-turn," suggests some remarks related to this summer's Enniskillen festival.

Her

(A sequel to today's noon post, Hymn) Portrait, in the 2013 film Oblivion , of  a 2005 graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art — London derrière.

Hymn

Londonderry Air "By recalling the past and freezing the present he could open the gates of time…." — Mark Helprin,  In Sunlight and in Shadow

Comment-Worthy

An End in Itself

(Mathematics and Narrative, continued from May 9, 2013) See also Scriba's The Concept of Number and, from the date of his death, The Zero Theorem.