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Eli Wallach, Multifaceted Actor, Dies at 98
Introduction to a review of two books in The American Interest , June 17, 2014: “A believer and an atheist seek out their antitheses. Do they meet somewhere…
… und Nachtformen des Urgrundes From George , by Friedrich Gundolf (Berlin, Bondi, 1920): Wenn das Schlußgedicht des Teppichs "Der Schleier" das ganze gestaltige "Leben" des Dichters als einen…
Or: Mathematics and Narrative, Continued In memory of a Stanford Arabist who reportedly died yesterday: Another dream palace, from science fiction: From Catherine Asaro’s The Spacetime Pool :…
(Continued) Some bizarre remarks on “purity” in the previous post suggest a review of some pure mathematics.
A suitable hallmark for the previous post, Logical Death: 29 Hexagram 29: “K’an represents… the principle of light inclosed in the dark.” — The Richard Wilhelm I Ching A related page…
The May 29 death of a Stanford logician, combined with this morning’s previous post, suggests a review of the May 29 post Lost in Translation. Context— Posts tagged…
“… near-death experiences have all the hallmarks of mystical experience…” — “Bolt from the Blue,” by Oliver Sacks (See “Annals of Consciousness,” June 20, 2014) The late Charles…
A search for the late Charles Barsotti’s art in this journal leads to the following passage: For related material from Bloomsday 2014, the date of Barsotti’s death, see posts…
Tonight I finally got around to seeing “Return of the King,” the end of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, and listened to Annie Lennox sing “Into the West“*…