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To Feb. 11, 2012: “News and Traffic. Sports and Weather. These were his acid terms for the life he’d left behind, more than two years of living with…
"Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Homer: those writers trafficked in witches and fairies and ghosts and monsters. Why shouldn’t I?" — Novelist Lev Grossman in The New York Times this…
For the Thin White Duke — The Next Whiskey Bar: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 6:00 pm in UTC+02 at LYNX 760 in Oslo, Norway.
In memory of a Manhattan real-estate developer who reportedly died on August 9, 2014 — a post from that date a year earlier. Click on the Tower for further…
(Continued) The webpage Rosenhain and Göpel Tetrads in PG(3,2) has been updated to include more material on symplectic structure.
“Mr. Ryckmans translated, into English, the ‘Analects,’ the collection of sayings attributed to Confucius.” — A New York Times obituary this evening See also this morning’s post on Confucius.
A prequel to today's noon post Rosalind Krauss in "Grids" — "The physical qualities of the surface, we could say, are mapped onto the aesthetic dimensions of the same…
“. . . the bottom line of the grid is a naked and determined materialism.” — Rosalind Krauss, quoted by Josefine Lyche See also http://www.dailymotion.com/video/ x164rmi_britt-ekland-nude-wicker-man-1973_people.
Robin Williams and the Stages of Grief A weblog post from Jan. 25, 2014 (click image to enlarge)— Clues for a Mystery (Click links for more details)— Clue…
“The Pope’s visit to South Korea is the first part of a very intelligent opening to Asia,” said Lionel Jensen, associate professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures…