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The Folding

See Madeleine + Folded. An illustration (click to enlarge) — Related material: Posts from the above upload date, 10/1/10.

Nox

( A sequel to Lux ) “By groping toward the light we are made to realize how deep the darkness is around us.” — Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy , Random…

Lux

(As opposed to an alleged bearer  of lux  .) (Here “eidolon” should instead be “eidos.”) An example of Gestaltung : This journal on the day of Feininger’s death, and…

Grid

In memory of one who sent in the clowns: See also Plan 9 in this journal, as well as Saturday’s posts.

Flashback…

To Feb. 11, 2012: “News and Traffic. Sports and Weather. These were his acid terms for the life he’d left behind, more than two years of living with…

The Grossman Chronicles

"Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Homer: those writers trafficked in witches and fairies and ghosts and monsters. Why shouldn’t I?" — Novelist Lev Grossman in The New York Times  this…

Les Prédateurs

For the Thin White Duke — The Next Whiskey Bar: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 6:00 pm in UTC+02 at LYNX 760 in Oslo, Norway.

August Ninth Death

In memory of a Manhattan real-estate developer who reportedly died on August 9, 2014 — a post from that date a year earlier. Click on the Tower for further…

The Omega Matrix

(Continued) The webpage Rosenhain and Göpel Tetrads in PG(3,2) has been updated to include more material on symplectic structure.

Analects

“Mr. Ryckmans translated, into English, the ‘Analects,’ the collection of sayings attributed to Confucius.” — A New York Times  obituary this evening See also this morning’s post on Confucius.