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Lyric Stupidity

From a song discussed in yesterday’s online NY Times : “Blue, blue, my love is blue.”* Trigger warning from SNL’s Weekend Update on April 12, 2014: “It was…

Lyric Intelligence

(Continued from previous post, Clue) The quoted lyric is not by Elliot Rodger, but rather by Don Henley in his 1995 album “Actual Miles: Henley’s Greatest Hits.” See…

Clue

Arts & Letters Daily  today — New Books What makes a novel worth reading: All sorts of people can do justice to that subject. Academics, however, haven’t a…

The Iris Contingency

From a spring 2004 Michigan State University syllabus for the T-Th course English 487, “The Twentieth Century English Novel”— Tuesday, March 30: Murdoch (her essay “ The Sublime and…

Free-Floating Signs

“You’ve got to pick up every stitch…” — Donovan, song on closing credits of  To Die For “…’Supersymmetry’ was originally written specifically for Her ….” — Pitchfork “Eventually we see snow…

She Meets Her

She: The White Goddess in this journal. Her: “Eventually we see snow particles….” — Screenplay by Spike Jonze

Visual Structure

“Chaos is order yet undeciphered.” — The novel The Double , by José Saramago, on which the recent film "Enemy" was based For Louise Bourgeois — a post from the date…

The Tetrahedral Model of PG(3,2)

The page of Whitehead linked to this morning suggests a review of Polster's tetrahedral model of the finite projective 3-space PG(3,2) over the two-element Galois field GF(2). The…

Through the Vanishing Point*

Marshall McLuhan in "Annie Hall" — "You know nothing of my work." Related material —  "I need a photo opportunity I want a shot at redemption Don't want to end…

Para Los Muertos