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An obit from The Telegraph today: Meanwhile, in The Chronicle of Higher Education … The Chronicle quotes Mark Twain on “mental telegraphy.”
Or: Extremely Gray Code Related material: Spaces as Hypercubes
Geometer H. S. M. Coxeter died on this date in 2003. This evening’s daily number from the Keystone state: 822.
On The Blazing World , a new novel — “Hustvedt uses fragment-stories, frame narratives, and unreliable narrators to talk about the ways in which brilliant women across history have been silenced,…
“…what he was trying to get across was not that he was the Soldier of a Power that was fighting across all of time to change history, but…
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Click image for the backstory. The sermon itself is not yet on line. Perhaps the following will help.
Two timely images for Oslo artist Josefine Lyche — Backstory: Searches for “Blazing World” and for “Josefine + Lyche + Pink” in this journal. The image above is…
Click the above for further details. An elegy adapted from “Sequence,” by Theodore Roethke — “She listened when light sang.” Perhaps such a song was sung on Shakespeare’s (and Nabokov’s)…
Friday evening’s post Musement dealt with Iris Murdoch’s phrase “the clean crystalline work.” For dirty bloody work see the life of Don Reitz, who reportedly died at 84 on…