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Big Time

The following post suggests the Spiders and Snakes of Fritz Leiber’s Changewar , a mythology inspired by the hallucinations of delirium tremens .

Good Question

Related material: Here “Lucifer’s temple” refers to Josefine Lyche’s Lynx 760 gallery in Oslo.

Mathematics for Tromsø

Loren Olson, Harvard ’64, a professor of mathematics at Norway’s Tromsø University,* died June 22, 2014. In his memory, a search in this journal for Lie Group. That search…

Pythagorean Selfie

“Rarely is a TV show as brilliant and as terrible as Selfie .” — Kevin Fallon on a new ABC TV show that starts tonight at 8 PM ET…

Pythagoras to Cohn

Harvey Cohn on class field theory and a question that might have been asked by Pythagoras: See also yesterday’s Michaelmas Mystery and Michaelmas Texts.

Michaelmas Texts

This morning’s previous post quoted a sort of invitation to damnation from Princeton University Press: An alternative to damnation:

Michaelmas Mystery

Some related material in this journal: “Peter J. Cameron” + Magic.

The Hades Factor

Happy birthday to Mira Sorvino. Related material: Today’s posts Hitchcockian,  Darkness and Light, and Requiem for Abse. Some context for the last of these: The conclusion of last…

Requiem for Abse

Darkness and Light

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