Tag: Crosswicks Curse

The Crosswicks Curse

Continues. It was a dark and stormy night … — Page 180, Logicomix

The Search for Charles Wallace

The search in the previous post for the source of a quotation from Poincaré yielded, as a serendipitous benefit, information on an interesting psychoanalyst named Wilfred Bion (see the…

Women's History Month

For the Princeton Class of 1905 — Joyce Carol Oates Meets Emily Dickinson. Oates — "It is an afternoon in autumn, near dusk. The western sky is a spider’s web of translucent…

Tag (Part II)

(Continued from yesterday evening) Madeleine L'Engle in The Irrational Season (1977), Chapter 9: "After A Wrinkle in Time  was finally published, it was pointed out to me that the villain, a…

Cover Acts

The Daily Princetonian  today: A different cover act, discussed here  Saturday: See also, in this journal, the Galois tesseract and the Crosswicks Curse. "There is  such a thing as…

The Crosswicks Curse

(Continued) "There is  such a thing as a tesseract." —A novel from Crosswicks Related material from a 1905 graduate of Princeton, "The 3-Space PG(3,2) and Its Group," is now…

The Crosswicks Curse

Continues. From the prologue to the new Joyce Carol Oates novel Accursed— "This journey I undertake with such anticipation is not one of geographical space but one of…