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“For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like.”
The Folding Cynthia Zarin in The New Yorker , issue dated April 12, 2004— “Time, for L’Engle, is accordion-pleated. She elaborated, ‘When you bring a sheet off the line, you can’t…
The titles of the previous three posts refer to Hermann Weyl’s 1918 book Raum, Zeit, Materie (Space, Time, Matter). This suggests a look at a poetically parallel 1950…
(A sequel to Raum and Zeit ) See also Christmas Eve, 2012. “It’s going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment of the talented….” — To Ride Pegasus…
( A sequel to Raum ) The author reportedly died on August 14, 2014. See a post from that date.
A possible answer to the 1923 question of Walter Gropius, "Was ist Raum?"— See also yesterday's Source of the Finite and the image search on the Gropius question in last night's post.
Yesterday's 11 AM post was a requiem for a brutalist architect. Today's LA Times has a related obituary: "Architectural historian Alan Hess, who has written several books on…
"Die Unendlichkeit ist die uranfängliche Tatsache: es wäre nur zu erklären, woher das Endliche stamme…." — Friedrich Nietzsche, Das Philosophenbuch/Le livre du philosophe (Paris: Aubier-Flammarion, 1969), fragment 120, p….
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"To every man upon this earth, Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, and…