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Friday June 2, 2006

'Ursprache' beats 'weltschmerz' to win American spelling bee   Weltschmerz and the Ursprache From eudaemonist.com, a quotation from Paul Zanker's The Mask of Socrates: "Zanker describes the photograph…

Saturday April 8, 2006

April 6 two years ago: Ideas and Art The first idea was not our own.  Adam In Eden was the father of Descartes… — Wallace Stevens, from    Notes…

Saturday November 12, 2005

Glory Season "…his eyes ranged the Consul's books disposed quite neatly… on high shelves around the walls: Dogme et Ritual de la Haute Magie, Serpent and Siva Worship…

Monday August 29, 2005

VALE George and Esther Szekeres From the weblog of David Michael Brown, Jr.:   Date:     Sun, 28 Aug 2005              12:30:40 -0400 From:    Alf van…

Tuesday August 2, 2005

Today's birthday: Peter O'Toole "What is it, Major Lawrence,  that attracts you personally  to the desert?" "It's clean." Visible Mathematics, continued — From May 18: Lindbergh's Eden "The…

Tuesday August 2, 2005

Final Arrangements, continued   Kismet From yesterday's Log24 — Clive Barker's Weaveworld: Another of the angel's attributes rose from memory now, and with it a sudden shock of…

Monday August 1, 2005

Visible Mathematics     "Earlier, there had been mapping projects in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al-Khali, the Empty Quarter in the south and west of the country….      '"Empty" is…

Wednesday May 18, 2005

Lindbergh's Eden "The Garden of Eden is behind us and there is no road back to innocence; we can only go forward." — Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Earth Shine,…

Thursday May 27, 2004

Ineluctable On the poetry of Geoffrey Hill: "… why read him? Because of the things he writes about—war and peace and sacrifice, and the search for meaning and…

Tuesday April 6, 2004

Ideas and Art, Part III The first idea was not our own.  Adam In Eden was the father of Descartes… — Wallace Stevens, from Notes Toward a Supreme…