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From The Seventh Symbol— "First of all, I'd like to thank the Academy…"
Field Dance The New York Times on June 17, 2007: Design Meets Dance, and Rules Are Broken Yesterday's evening entry was on the fictional sins of a fictional…
Polar Opposites Susan Sontag in this week's New Yorker: "The mind is a whore." Embedded in the Sontag article is the following: Act One South Pole: Shi Ho…
The Square Wheel (continued) From The n-Category Cafe today: David Corfield at 2:33 PM UTC quoting a chapter from a projected second volume of a biography: "Grothendieck’s spontaneous…
"Caught up in circles…" — Song lyric, Cyndi Lauper Alethiometer from "The Golden Compass" The I Ching as Alethiometer Update: See also this morning's later entry,…
Jumpers "An acute study of the links between word and fact" — Nina daVinci Nichols Thanks to a Virginia reader for a reminder: Virginia /391062427/item.html? 2/22/2008…
Change The above is from Feb. 15, 2006. "I don't believe in an afterlife, so I think this is it, and I'm trying to spend my time as…
The Seventh Symbol: A Multicultural Farewell to a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Egyptian author of The Seventh Heaven: Supernatural Stories — "Jackson has identified the seventh…
Today's Sinner: Augustine of Hippo, who is said to have died on this date in 430 A.D. "He is, after all, not merely taking over a Neoplatonic ontology,…
Sacred Order In memory of Philip Rieff, who died on July 1, 2006: An essay from July 16 on Rieff's concept of "the sacred order" An example of…