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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…

Sunday School

The Folding Cynthia Zarin in The New Yorker , issue dated April 12, 2004— “Time, for L’Engle, is accordion-pleated. She elaborated, ‘When you bring a sheet off the line, you can’t…

Physics and Theology

The titles of the previous three posts refer to Hermann Weyl’s 1918 book Raum, Zeit, Materie (Space, Time, Matter). This suggests a look at a poetically parallel 1950…

Raum

A possible answer to the 1923 question of Walter Gropius, "Was ist Raum?"— See also yesterday's Source of the Finite and the image search on the Gropius question in last night's post.

Brutalism Revisited

Yesterday's 11 AM post was a requiem for a brutalist architect. Today's LA Times  has a related obituary: "Architectural historian Alan Hess, who has written several books on…

Source of the Finite

"Die Unendlichkeit  ist die uranfängliche Tatsache: es wäre nur zu erklären, woher das Endliche  stamme…." — Friedrich Nietzsche, Das Philosophenbuch/Le livre du philosophe (Paris: Aubier-Flammarion, 1969), fragment 120, p….

Not Quite

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Altar

"To every man upon this earth, Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, and…

Schau der Gestalt

(Continued from Aug. 19, 2014) "Christian contemplation is the opposite of distanced consideration of an image: as Paul says, it is the metamorphosis of the beholder into the…

Lux et Veritas

Omega by Lux: Omega by Curtis: