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The Lindbergh Manifesto

"Creation is the birth of something, and something cannot come from nothing." — Photographer Peter Lindbergh at his website From a biography of Lindbergh — "… it took Lindbergh…

Ex Nihilo

Yesterday morning's quote from The Politics of Experience : "Creation ex nihilo  has been pronounced impossible even for God. But we are concerned with miracles." Related material: Curtis + Turyn in…

Song for a Blue Guitar

From a 2012 piece on author Oliver Sacks: "… he successfully set out to envision a splash of true indigo, the colour he had been fascinated by since…

Metaphysics for Sunday

From Chapter 1 of R. D. Laing's The Politics of Experience — "An activity has to be understood in terms of the experience from which it emerges. These arabesques that…

Moon Shadow

"I'm being followed by a moon shadow…."  — Song lyric

Songs of Experience

Is experience the best teacher? At Thursday's opening night of U2's "Innocence and Experience" tour, The Edge falls off the stage —   … Or is the best teacher Buddy Rich? Bus…

Innocence and Experience

Today's guitar news suggests the following — "… sometimes what we are seeking is not that which reason can impose…." For the source, see a Log24 search for Innocence +…

Plan 9 Revisited

Music to wake the dead … For the fictional corpse Sean Casey of "Whiplash" — The music of the late jazz drummer Jerome Cooper.

The Faustian Merry-Go-Round

Continued from April 25, 2015 . See also Soul, a post of May 6, 2015.

Imperial Symbology

See Found Symbol in this journal. See also the Imperial College theorem symbol and a page from Imperial College about group actions on a space Ω — For Han…