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Plan 9

(Continued from St. Augustine's Day, 2012) "Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead." Epigraph to "No Great Magic," a story by Fritz Leiber:  To bring the dead…

Outside Space and Time

The title phrase appears in today's noon post and also in a post of October 29, 2007, 'Home from Home.'

Point of Reference

A note from the director of the 2014 Scarlett Johansson film Lucy : Revised version of a post of February 9, 2006, with links repaired: Space, Time, and Scarlett…

Where the Joints Are

An image related to the recent posts Sense and Sensibility: A quote from yesterday's post The Eight: A possible source for the above phrase about phenomena "carved at…

Lucy Meets Kant

“Towards the sticky end of a summer of films based on toys, comic-books and other films, here, at last, is a film based on the Kantian model of transcendental…

The Eight

The image at the end of today’s previous post A Seventh Seal suggests a review of posts on Katherine Neville’s The Eight . Update of 1:25 PM ET…

A Seventh Seal

This post was suggested by the two previous posts, Sermon and Structure. Vide  below the final paragraph— in Chapter 7— of Cameron’s Parallelisms , as well as Baudelaire in…

Structure

In memory of cartoonist Tony Auth, who reportedly died today From a Saturday evening post: “A simple grid structure makes both evolutionary and developmental sense.” From a post of…

Sermon

Epigraphs from Parallelisms of Complete Designs by Peter J. Cameron (Cambridge University Press, 1976) Introduction Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover…

Sensibility

Structured gray matter: Graphic symmetries of Galois space: The reason for these graphic symmetries in affine  Galois space — symmetries of the underlying projective  Galois space: