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Narrative Metaphysics

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.

Vocational Education

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…

Nothing New

"Confusion is nothing new." — Cyndi Lauper

Back to the Greeks

“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…

Photo Opportunity

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…

Stark and Bleak

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…

Notes Toward an Unreliable Narrator

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…

The Karabel Story

Today's previous post, on a Harvard Crimson  story, omitted the name of the Crimson  author.  It is Sonya A. Karabel. Related material:

Jews on Style

"A window unto  the world"?  "The classical  style"?

Broad and Bright

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…