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Religion for Academics

From PhDTree.org — “Paradox lust”: the fortunate fall according to Joyce in finnegans wake Gerald Gillespie Journal Article Neohelicon 38(1) 161-175 (2011) No abstract. DOI: 10.1007/s11059-011-0092-y Download: Full Text PDF

A Key for the Twins*

* Id est , The Skeleton Twins.

Former-Day Saint

Continued from Friday the 13th of June, 2014 : "It's going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment of the Talented ​in the scheme of things." — To Ride Pegasus ,  …

For Black Friday

Kristen Wiig, Girl Reporter… .. in The Skeleton Twins— "I've got news for you." Co-starring Bill Hader as Her —

Words and Pictures

Continued from Finder (Sept. 23, 2014) "I wrote another book!" — Harlan Kane From an online NY Times  obituary this morning : "At Newsweek, Mr. Bernstein and other…

Off the Map

Alexander Grothendieck, Récoltes et Semailles , 18.5.9.5. e,  p. 1181 : Pour mettre la joie à son comble, j’ajoute que le dénommé Saavedra semble avoir disparu de la circulation sans plus laisser aucune…

In the Details

For the late novelist P. D. James, author of, among other things, The Children of Men . Michael Caine in the film of that book — Detail — Raven's Progressive Matrices example —  A…

Art Photography

The New York Times  this morning: Lucien Clergue, Master and Promoter of Art Photography, Dies at 80. Clergue reportedly died on November 15. From Log24 on that date— Un-Art…

Mathematics and Narrative

Mathematics:  Galois-Plane Models. Narrative: "The Dreaming Jewels."

A Tetrahedral Fano-Plane Model

Update of Nov. 30, 2014 — It turns out that the following construction appears on pages 16-17 of A Geometrical Picture Book , by  Burkard Polster (Springer, 1998). "Experienced…