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The Dodecahedron . This Platonic solid appears, for instance, on the cover of a colorful text titled The Heart of Mathematics (Wiley, third edition, 2009) — For serious students, here…
"But what was supposed to be the source of a compound's authority? Why, the same as that of all new religious movements: direct access to the godhead, which in this case was…
From a New York Post review of "Clouds of Sils Maria," a film that opened yesterday — "Assayas [the writer-director] evidently thinks he’s being daring and original and avant-garde in leaving…
"It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of …." See also OCODE .
See also Midnight Purple and today's previous post.
See Ellen Page as Ariadne.
This is Holy Week in the Orthodox Church. "The Greek Orthodox tradition is for eggs to be dyed red on Holy Thursday in commemoration of the Last Supper…."…
See also James Joyce on Humpty-Dumpty and posts in this journal from April 10, 2012.
From an informative April 7 essay in The Nation — In his marvelous book Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything , David Bellos demonstrates many of…
"Yankee Doodle went to London" — Song lyric “Geometry was very important to us in this movie.” — The Missing ART (Log24, November 7th, 2014) ART — "Faculty Approve Theater Concentration,…