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Good Question

"A friend asked why I am saying kaddish.  A good question." — Kaddish , by Leon Wieseltier, Chapter One Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman See Scarlett in Lucy … Barry…

Red Dawn

Change Arises

Flashback to St. Andrew's Day, 2013 — Saturday, November 30, 2013 Waiting for Ogdoad Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Change Arises — m759 @ 10:30 AM  Continued from October 30 (Devil's Night), 2013….

Child Buyer

Agents of a Great Despair

Or:  Concepts of Space 1976 according to Cullinane: 1976 according to Plotnick: “Irony and ridicule are entertaining and effective, and . . . at the same time they are…

Electric Dreams

Continued from Black Friday … "Tell me no secrets, tell me some lies." — Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

View from the Bottom

Reality's Mirror: Exploring the Mathematics of Symmetry — "Here is a book that explains in laymen language what symmetry is all about, from the lowliest snowflake and flounder to…

Back to the Real

Continued from June 17, 2009 — "I sit now in a little room off the bar at four-thirty in the morning drinking ochas and then mescal and writing this…

Investments

From "A Piece of the Storm," by the late poet Mark Strand — A snowflake, a blizzard of one…. From notes to Malcolm Lowry's "La Mordida" — he had invested,…

Two Physical Models of the Fano Plane

The Regular Tetrahedron The seven symmetry axes of the regular tetrahedron are of two types: vertex-to-face and edge-to-edge. Take these axes as the "points" of a Fano plane….