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For Hughes and Crombie*

Recommended — Links to the poems:  "Storm Beach" and "For You."  * See "The Space of Horizons" and A Search for Crombie.

Love and Darkness, 2003

The previous post mentions an Amos Oz  novel, A Tale of Love and Darkness  (Sipour Al Ahava Vehoshekh,  סיפור על אהבה וחושך), apparently first published in Hebrew in 2002….

Harvard Class Day Speaker

This year's Class Day speaker at Harvard will be Natalie Portman. Related material: See also the link to Preoccupied  from Sunday— "The Cardinal seemed a little preoccupied today."

Speak, Memory

For "Blacklist" fans — See also Mimsy.

The Good

"… they didn't really know what was good and was not good…." — The late Bernard Stollman,      who reportedly died at 85      on Monday, April 20, 2015 "And…

Colorful Tale

(A sequel to yesterday's ART WARS and this morning's De Colores ) “Perhaps the philosophically most relevant feature of modern science is the emergence of abstract symbolic structures…

De Colores

See orange, black, green at  The Daily Princetonian and in this journal.

ART WARS continued

The previous post mentioned a new mobile, "Triangle Constellation," commissioned for the Harvard Art Museums. Related material (click to enlarge) — The above review is of an exhibition by the…

Purely Aesthetic

G. H. Hardy in A Mathematician's Apology — What ‘purely aesthetic’ qualities can we distinguish in such theorems as Euclid’s or Pythagoras’s? I will not risk more than a…

Tales of Money and Power:

A companion-piece to Sunday's Sermon for the Cruelest Month — Click the above paragraph for further details.