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Nine is a Vine

See also Concepts of Space and  “Launched from Cuber.”

October Nine: Lyche at Bodø

Click to enlarge. See also Apollo in this  journal. “Nine is a very powerful Nordic number.” — Katherine Neville, who deserves some sort of prize for literature. — Heidegger,…

As Is

"That simple operator, 'as,' turns out to carry within its philosophical grammar a remarkable complex field* of operations…." — Charles Altieri,  Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 1989, page…

Ruler

See also this  journal on Jan. 8, 2013:

Cards of Identity

Or:  Plan 9 Continues (Suggested by this afternoon’s post Concepts of Space.) See also Card… … and Tick Tick Hash.

Principles of Aesthetics

Or:  Phantasmagoria Meets Pandemonium Part I: Phantasmagoria Rebecca Goldstein on first encountering Plato — “I was reading Durant’s section on Plato, struggling to understand his theory of the ideal…

Concepts of Space

(Continued)

Grids and Space

In honor of the late Sidney Lumet (See Makom Kadosh , April 9, 2011.)

Exit Center Stage

To note deaths on Samedi  and Dimanche :

Reviews

From the MacTutor biography of Otto Neugebauer: “… two projects which would be among the most important contributions anyone has made to mathematics. He persuaded Springer-Verlag to publish…