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Study This Example, Part II

(Continued from 10:09 AM today) The quotation below is from a webpage on media magnate Walter Annenberg. Annenberg Hall at Harvard, originally constructed to honor the Civil War dead, was renamed…

Study This Example

The authors of the following offer an introduction to symmetry in quilt blocks.  They assume, perhaps rightly, that their audience is intellectually impaired: “A quilt block is made of 16…

The McLuhan Dimension

"History is a deep and complicated puzzle— especially when it involves more dimensions than time." — Introduction to a novella in Analog Science Fiction "Annenberg Hall" at Harvard…

Nocciolo

In memory of an actor “who as a boy was one of the few Jewish children in his mostly Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn” — See the link nocciolo  from The Book of Abraham…

Passing

Eli Wallach, Multifaceted Actor, Dies at 98

Passing in the Murk

Introduction to a review of two books in The American Interest , June 17, 2014: “A believer and an atheist seek out their antitheses. Do they meet somewhere…

Die Scheinung des Wesens

… und Nachtformen des Urgrundes From George , by Friedrich Gundolf (Berlin, Bondi, 1920): Wenn das Schlußgedicht des Teppichs "Der Schleier" das ganze gestaltige "Leben" des Dichters als einen…

Dream Palace

Or: Mathematics and Narrative, Continued In memory of a Stanford Arabist who reportedly died yesterday: Another dream palace, from science fiction: From Catherine Asaro’s  The Spacetime Pool :…

Göpel and Rosenhain

(Continued) Some bizarre remarks on “purity” in the previous post suggest a review of some pure  mathematics.

Hallmark

A suitable hallmark for the previous post, Logical Death: 29 Hexagram 29: “K’an represents… the principle of light inclosed in the dark.” — The Richard Wilhelm I Ching A related page…