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From "Guardians of the Galaxy" — "Then the Universe exploded into existence…" For those who prefer a more traditional approach : See also Symplectic Structure and Stevens's Rock.
This post was suggested by today's Harvard Crimson story Protest at Primal Scream Leads to Chaotic Exchange. Frederick Seidel in the September 3, 2012, New Yorker — "Biddies still…
"Confusion is nothing new." — Cyndi Lauper
“I can hardly do better than go back to the Greeks.” — G. H. Hardy in A Mathematician's Apology See also Hardy and Brosnan in today's earlier post Stark and…
Continued from Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. “The undermining of standards of seriousness is almost complete.” — Susan Sontag (See November 24, 2007.) "Respect is often the last and only…
C. P. Snow on G. H. Hardy in the foreword to A Mathematician's Apology : "… he had another favourite entertainment. 'Mark that man we met last night,' he…
Related material from this journal (Sept. 6, 2013) — "Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be…
Today's previous post, on a Harvard Crimson story, omitted the name of the Crimson author. It is Sonya A. Karabel. Related material:
"A window unto the world"? "The classical style"?
Requiem for a painter in this evening's NY Times : In a review for ARTNews , the painter and critic Fairfield Porter called her work “traditional and radical.” Her…