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The title is a line from a preview of the new film “The Double,” starring Jesse Eisenberg: Related lines from T. S. Eliot: Here is a place of…
“The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his…
Continued from this morning and from earlier posts. See also Abramson. Related material: Ken Auletta, “Why Jill Abramson Was Fired.” * Background for the title phrase: see Down +…
"It was our old friend Pythagoras who discovered that the pentagram was full of mathematics." — Narrator, "Donald in Mathmagic Land," Disney, 1959 … and it was Peter…
See last night’s pentagram photo and a post from May 13, 2012. That post links to a little-known video of a 1972 film. A speech from the film was…
See the above weblog post honoring a Swiss artist‘s “wit, his perception, his genius, his horizon, his determination, his humour, his friendship, and his immeasurable kindness.” Not a…
Click the above quote for some related material.
The title is that of a short story in Dubliners , by James Joyce. See in that story the phrase “Grey-green eyes.” See also the tag #greygreengrids on an Oslo…
For those disappointed by the cancellation of this evening’s Black Mass at Harvard, here is a somewhat less exciting substitute. See also Peter J. Cameron + Magic.