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Against Dryness

(Continued) "July 5, 2012, begins normally enough — Ben Affleck’s character goes for a drink at the bar he co-owns with his hilariously sarcastic twin sister Margo …." Margo…

The Esthetic Question

From James Joyce's  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — As he came back to the hearth, limping slightly but with a brisk step, Stephen saw the…

Evocative

See also the previous post on "spare yet evocative imagery."

Prize

See also Sequel, Lumet's "a full half-hour" and Tribute.

The Prequel

The McEvoy Rite

Nan Tucker McEvoy, last of founding family to run Chronicle, dies By Sam Whiting at SFGate.com, Friday, March 27, 2015  From the story — "After graduating from Dominican Convent Upper School …

Pursuit of Gestalt*

The art above is by the Copenhagen studio Hvass & Hannibal. For a photo of the artists, see a webpage on Beijing Design Week 2011. Hvass and Hannibal were…

When Death Tells a Story…

See the title phrase and "working backward" in this journal.

The Möbius Hypercube

The incidences of points and planes in the Möbius 84  configuration (8 points and 8 planes, with 4 points on each plane and 4 planes on each point), were described by Coxeter in…

Hirzebruch

(Continued from July 16, 2014.) Some background from Wikipedia: "Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch  ForMemRS[2]  (17 October 1927 – 27 May 2012) was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology,  complex…