Tag: Gyges

Monday August 20, 2007

An Epiphany for Stephen King From the front page of this morning's online New York Times: In the details: Stephen B. King, a Hallmark creative director, with some…

Tuesday August 14, 2007

Philip K. Dick, 1928 – 1982   on the cover of a 1987 edition of his 1959 novel Time Out of Joint: Cover art by Barclay Shaw reprinted…

Monday August 13, 2007

Kernel of Eternity Log24, June 19-21, 2007 Introduction Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker of August 20, 2007– On Philip K. Dick: "… the kind of guy who…

Sunday August 12, 2007

The Geometry of Qubits In the context of quantum information theory, the following structure seems to be of interest– "… the full two-by-two matrix ring with entries in…

Saturday August 11, 2007

Four Colours The previous entry dealt with Plato's myth of the ring of Gyges that conferred invisibility. Another legendary ring, from Hermann Hesse, with some background from Carl…

Friday August 10, 2007

The Ring of Gyges 10:31:32 AM ET Commentary by Richard Wilhelm on I Ching Hexagram 32: "Duration is… not a state of rest, for mere standstill is regression….