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"I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption. Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard." – Paul Simon "The theory of poetry, that…
Possession in great measure Related material: Lead obituary in today’s online New York Times and Los Angeles Times — Maazel reportedly died on Sunday, July 13, 2014. From a…
For Ursula K. Le Guin “For me it is a sign that we have fundamentally different conceptions of the work of the intelligence services.” — Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel…
A sequel to the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot : Contingent and Fluky Some variations on a thunderbolt theme: These variations also exemplify the larger Verbum theme: Escher’s Verbum Solomon’s Cube…
See Cube Symbology. “Da hats ein Eck“
From this morning’s post: “Beyond Noplace, far into wide Nowhere” — John Hollander Vide Le Guin Geometry.
Roger Cooke in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society , April 2010 — “Life on the Mathematical Frontier: Legendary Figures and Their Adventures“ “In most cases involving the modern…
The date of a Vanity Fair post on Hugh Jackman— Sunday, June 8, 2014— suggests a review of the following quotation from this journal on that date — Zen…
The title is from this morning’s previous post. From a theater review in that post— … “all flying edges and angles, a perpetually moving and hungry soul” ……
(Continued from yesterday’s noon post, from “Block That Metaphor,” and from “Mystery Box III: Inside, Outside“) “In one corner are the advocates of the Common Core, led by the…