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Flame Diary

Last Saturday's post Against Dryness quoted "Gone Girl," a recent film about an untypical couple.  Other works of interest: The Flame Alphabet  (Ben Marcus, 2012) and The Folded Clock  (Heidi Julavits,…

Würfel-Märchen

See also Würfel in this journal.

Mathematics for Jews*

Headline at the Toronto Star  on Friday, March 27, 2015: Robert Langlands: The Canadian who reinvented mathematics “He’s like a modern-day Einstein.” Apparently, unlike God, Langlands würfelt . * See…

Death in East Hampton

See also Deathtrap in this journal.

Against Dryness

(Continued) "July 5, 2012, begins normally enough — Ben Affleck’s character goes for a drink at the bar he co-owns with his hilariously sarcastic twin sister Margo …." Margo…

The Esthetic Question

From James Joyce's  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — As he came back to the hearth, limping slightly but with a brisk step, Stephen saw the…

Evocative

See also the previous post on "spare yet evocative imagery."

Prize

See also Sequel, Lumet's "a full half-hour" and Tribute.

The Prequel

The McEvoy Rite

Nan Tucker McEvoy, last of founding family to run Chronicle, dies By Sam Whiting at SFGate.com, Friday, March 27, 2015  From the story — "After graduating from Dominican Convent Upper School …