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A versus PA

"Reality is the beginning not the end, Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega, of dense investiture, with luminous vassals." — “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” VI From…

Blackboard Dschjungel

Cards of Identity

Remarks from The Harvard Crimson last October on a library visit — Remarks today by Margaret Soltan  (University Diaries , or UD ) of George Washington (GW) University  on writing well —

Biblical Awards

Genesis Prize: Revelation Prize: In other news…

Princeton Music continues…

A post yesterday linked to a discussion of the Faustian music of Milton Babbitt, a serial composer who reportedly died in Princeton on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. Related material from this journal…

Kulturkampf for Princeton*

Einstein and Thomas Mann, Princeton, 1938 A sequel to Princeton Requiem, Gesamtkunstwerk , and Serial Box —  Fearful Symmetry, Princeton Style: * See as well other instances of Kulturkampf  in…

Serial Box

Enotes.com on Herman Wouk's 1985 novel Inside, Outside :  "The 'outside' of the title is the goyish world into which David’s profession has drawn him; the 'inside' is the warm life of…

Gesamtkunstwerk

Links to the above essays:   Shields (Jan. 5, 2015),  Rothstein (Jan. 12, 2015) Talk amongst yourselves.

Princeton Requiem

Angel Eyes From The Daily Princetonian , a story dated Monday, Jan. 12, 2015: U. community gathers to remember Dantzlerward '16 BY JACOB DONNELLY Students, faculty, staff and community members circled…

Points Omega*

The previous post displayed a set of 24 unit-square "points" within a rectangular array. These are the points of the  Miracle Octad Generator  of R. T. Curtis. The array…