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"We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images…." — Joan Didion Narrative Line: Disparate images: Exercise: Can the above narrative line…
“There exists a considerable literature devoted to the Lo shu , much of it infected with the kind of crypto-mystic twaddle met with in Feng Shui.” — Lee…
Back together, but missing an article. “An article (abbreviated ART) is a word (or prefix or suffix) that is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun.” — Wikipedia Perhaps Tommy Lee…
From a post of June 3, 2013: New Yorker editor David Remnick at Princeton today (from a copy of his prepared remarks): “Finally, speaking of fabric design….” I prefer Tom…
"Macy’s Herald Square occupies a singular place in American retailing." — NY Times today, in print on page BU1 of the New York edition with the headline: Makeover on 34th Street ….
On Devil’s Night Introducing a group of 322,560 affine transformations of Dürer’s ‘Magic’ Square The four vector-space substructures of digits in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th place, together with the diamond theorem, indicate…
A print copy of next Sunday’s New York Times Book Review arrived in today’s mail. From the front-page review: Marcel Theroux on The Book of Strange New Things ,…
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A post in honor of Évariste Galois (25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832) From a book by Richard J. Trudeau titled The Non-Euclidean Revolution — See also “non-Euclidean”…
The "Chern" of today's previous post is mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern (b. Oct. 26, 1911, d. Dec. 3, 2004). For an observance of the 2011 centennial of his birth,…