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The Unit

In memory of Mike Nichols… "Let me put you in this unit." — John Calley

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The Manchurian Candidate

Continued from Tuesday, Nov. 18 The above conclusion of a NY Times obituary about a Monday death may also serve as the missing conclusion of Monday's "A Search for Missing…

The Eye/Mind Conflict

Harold Rosenberg, "Art and Words,"  The New Yorker , March 29, 1969. From page 110: "An advanced painting of this century inevitably gives rise in the spectator to a conflict between…

For the Green Mountain Girls

Tom Wolfe in The Painted Word  (1975): "It is important to repeat that Greenberg and Rosenberg did not create their theories in a vacuum or simply turn up with…

The Abacus Conundrum…

Continues. Prequel from 1961 (click image for context): Detail that may be interpreted as the Chinese 3×3 "Holy Field" and a Chinese temple bell— "Ting-a-ling." — Kurt Vonnegut.

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Hexagram 35: Progress "Then came a 'Robot Psychologist,' known as a Psychological Matrix Rotator, developed for the Department of Defense. It is still used to literally 'see' that…

A Search for Missing Pieces

A detail from the image search below — A Google image search today for “portal del aguila de oro” “bella vista” — Click for a larger (4.2 MB) version. See…

Along the Way

“Bit by bit, putting it together. Piece by piece, working out the vision night and day. All it takes is time and perseverance With a little luck along…

A Dark Detective Story

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…