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Five Ninths

“For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.” — Gravity’s Rainbow “I don’t write exclusively on Jewish themes or about Jewish characters. My collection of short…

Musement

(The title is from a work by Charles Sanders Peirce.) For LYNX 760 — For more beauty and strangeness, see Strange McEntire.

Chinese Rune

"The Geometry of the I Ching introduces something called the Cullinane sequence for the hexagrams, and uses a notation based on the four sides and two diagonals in…

Nabokovian

"Constructed as a Nabokovian cat’s cradle, the novel purports to be the work of a professor of aesthetics…." — Fernanda Eberstadt in a book review now online

Blazing Thule

The title is suggested by a new novel (see cover below), and by an unwritten book by Nabokov — . Related material: An artists' book scheduled to be released on…

Art School Confidential

For Reba McEntire on her birthday: Complex Reflection and Naturalized Epistemology.

Symbol

For Josefine Lyche, by fellow artist  Nuno Borges: Related material: Recent remarks by Lyche and a recurring image from this journal.

Symbol Game

The following is from a web page by Andreas Schöter, developer of  The Symbol Game. Building the Narrative The game can simply be played as a competitive board game,…

Strategist

Diamond Space

(Continued) Definition:  A diamond space  — informal phrase denoting a subspace of AG(6, 2), the six-dimensional affine space over the two-element Galois field. The reason for the name: Click to…