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Princeton Music continues…

A post yesterday linked to a discussion of the Faustian music of Milton Babbitt, a serial composer who reportedly died in Princeton on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. Related material from this journal…

Kulturkampf for Princeton*

Einstein and Thomas Mann, Princeton, 1938 A sequel to Princeton Requiem, Gesamtkunstwerk , and Serial Box —  Fearful Symmetry, Princeton Style: * See as well other instances of Kulturkampf  in…

Serial Box

Enotes.com on Herman Wouk's 1985 novel Inside, Outside :  "The 'outside' of the title is the goyish world into which David’s profession has drawn him; the 'inside' is the warm life of…

Gesamtkunstwerk

Links to the above essays:   Shields (Jan. 5, 2015),  Rothstein (Jan. 12, 2015) Talk amongst yourselves.

Princeton Requiem

Angel Eyes From The Daily Princetonian , a story dated Monday, Jan. 12, 2015: U. community gathers to remember Dantzlerward '16 BY JACOB DONNELLY Students, faculty, staff and community members circled…

Points Omega*

The previous post displayed a set of 24 unit-square "points" within a rectangular array. These are the points of the  Miracle Octad Generator  of R. T. Curtis. The array…

Real Beyond Artifice

A professor at Harvard has written about "the urge to seize and display something real beyond artifice." He reportedly died on January 3, 2015. An image from this…

The XYZ of Being

From a recent Gitterkrieg  post: "The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon, The A B C of being…." — Wallace Stevens See also the cover…

Sermon

For Saturday Night Live  and Robert Stone: Moss Wall.

In Memoriam

See a search for "Robert Stone" in this journal.