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Hermeneutics for Academics

Würfel-Märchen  continued … "Again, you are free to interpret these symbols  as you like." See also … Through the Looking Glass: A Sort of Eternity — and The Library of…

Deutsche Schule

Continued from December 5, 2002 — Braucht´s noch Text? Un-magical realism for Montevideo.

Unorthodox Easter

(A sequel to yesterday's Orthodox Easter posts) This morning's Google News — The New York Times  on the late Günter Grass — "Many of Mr. Grass’s books are phantasmagorical mixtures of fact…

Symbol of Heaven

Today is Easter Sunday in the Orthodox Church. Two readings: "Ancient Symbol of Heaven" From "Misunderstood Masterpiece," an essay in the Jesuit weekly America  on Salvador Dali's "The Sacrament…

The Greek Fifth Element:

The Dodecahedron . This Platonic solid appears, for instance, on the cover  of a colorful text titled The Heart of Mathematics  (Wiley, third edition, 2009) — For serious  students, here…

The Starbird Manifesto

"But what was supposed to be the source of a compound's authority? Why, the same as that of all new religious movements: direct access to the godhead, which in this case was…

Yale Mot

From a New York Post  review of "Clouds of Sils Maria," a film that opened yesterday — "Assayas [the writer-director] evidently thinks he’s being daring and original and avant-garde in leaving…

Living Theater

 "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of …." See also OCODE .

Immaculate Inception

See also Midnight Purple and today's previous post.

Clues for Jews

See Ellen Page as Ariadne.