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Egg Tales

"And not all the king's men nor his horses  Will resurrect his corpus." — Finnegans Wake See as well Andy Weir's "The Egg" and Working Backward.

Plan 9 Continues…

A version of the song in the previous post that I prefer: A related meditation — For a more abstract version of the "matrix of the cosmic process," see "3×3…

Song

For a singer.   The right stuff — How can we know the singer from the song ?

Soul

The online Los Angeles Times  yesterday — June 11, 2015  Robert Chartoff, an Oscar-winning Hollywood producer who got a tantalizing peek into show business in the Catskills and went…

Space

“Was ist Raum, wie können wir ihn erfassen und gestalten?” Walter Gropius, The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus  (1923) This post was suggested by the Bauhaus song "Bela Lugosi's…

Sign

"Now we're partners in crime" — Ace of Base, "The Golden Ratio" Or not. "The Hunger" (1983) was directed by Tony Scott. See also Tony Scott in this journal.

Dickens for Child Buyers

"              … yet the dread Of dying, and being dead, Flashes afresh to hold and horrify." — Philip Larkin, "Aubade" From tonight's…

Core

  Grindhouse Madonna ,   Children at your feet….

Omega

Omega is a Greek letter, Ω , used in mathematics to denote a set on which a group acts.  For instance, the affine group AGL(3,2) is a group of 1,344…

In Memoriam

"For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross." — Gravity's Rainbow