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The Service

“The service is described as as a dating app for the elite….” For examples of dating, see The Date and August 16, 2014. See also…

A Last Wish

“I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag.” — Joan Rivers See also this journal on the above date, 24 March 2009: The Child Trap.

Sunday School

In memory of Joan Rivers This post was suggested by the previous post's quote "the subject’s desires are scripted and orchestrated by an unconscious fundamental fantasy," and by one of…

Plato Thanks the Academy

(Continued) Plato at Stanford: Lacan and the Matheme of Fantasy “… [in] the matheme of fantasy ($ ◊ a ), the diamond-shaped “lozenge” (poinçon ) ◊ can be read as a…

Roll Credits…

for Operation Lightfoot .   †  

But Seriously…

The previous post, Infinite Jest, suggests a midrash on “–1/12” (i.e., minus one-twelfth): Judas.

Infinite Jest

“1 + 2 + 3 + … = –1/12.” — Keith Devlin, Sept. 2, 2014 Robin Williams and the Stages of Math i)   shock & denial ii)…

Flashback

The date at the end of yesterday’s noon post was May 25, 2010. This, together with Keith Devlin’s Twitter page today, suggests a review of that date. Res ipsa…

Halloween Manifestos, 2013:

Here and at Catholics for Classical Education. See also Tom Wolfe on manifestos — — and part of an interesting Sept. 2, 2014, manifesto by Common Core supporter Keith…

Place, Time, Matter