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Little Piece of Heaven

An obit from The Telegraph  today: Meanwhile, in  The Chronicle of Higher Education … The Chronicle  quotes Mark Twain on “mental telegraphy.”

For April 1

Or:  Extremely Gray Code Related material:  Spaces as Hypercubes

Art Wars for Coxeter

Geometer H. S. M. Coxeter died on this date in 2003. This evening’s daily number from the Keystone state:   822.

The Story of Noam

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,…

For Women's History Month

“…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…

Brightness at Noon

(Continued)

Princeton's Sermon

Click image for the backstory. The sermon itself is not yet on line. Perhaps the following will help.

Josefine's Sunday School

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…

Sequence (continued)

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)…

Butcher's Clay

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…