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Cut to Stanley Chase

“Chase worked for years to make a movie of ‘The Threepenny Opera.’ He finally got it done in 1989 as ‘Mack the Knife,’ with Menahem Golan directing.” —…

High White Noon

(The phrase is from Don DeLillo and Josefine Lyche.) See “Complex Grid.” See as well Bill O’Reilly’s remark, “Do not be a coxcomb,” and an artist‘s self-portrait: Grid…

Autistic Enchantment

(Continued from Sept. 3, 2009) George Steiner on chess: "At the sight of a set, even the tawdriest of plastic pocket sets, one’s fingers arch and a coldness…

Both Hands and an Ass Map

(Continued from Grids and Space and posts tagged Riddle for Caltech)

Nine is a Vine

See also Concepts of Space and  “Launched from Cuber.”

October Nine: Lyche at Bodø

Click to enlarge. See also Apollo in this  journal. “Nine is a very powerful Nordic number.” — Katherine Neville, who deserves some sort of prize for literature. — Heidegger,…

As Is

"That simple operator, 'as,' turns out to carry within its philosophical grammar a remarkable complex field* of operations…." — Charles Altieri,  Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 1989, page…

Ruler

See also this  journal on Jan. 8, 2013:

Cards of Identity

Or:  Plan 9 Continues (Suggested by this afternoon’s post Concepts of Space.) See also Card… … and Tick Tick Hash.

Principles of Aesthetics

Or:  Phantasmagoria Meets Pandemonium Part I: Phantasmagoria Rebecca Goldstein on first encountering Plato — “I was reading Durant’s section on Plato, struggling to understand his theory of the ideal…