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Suggested by the previous posts "Venus Winks" and "Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012"— And then, of course, the biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five…
"Debates about canonicity have been raging in my field (literary studies) for as long as the field has been around. Who's in? Who's out? How do we decide?"…
A Sunday meditation continued from Burning Patrick— For posts of a different sort, see O'Hara's Fingerpost and Cross-Purposes. (The numbers of these posts were indicated by today's midday…
"It was the simultaneous emergence and mutual determination of probability and logic that von Neumann found intriguing and not at all well understood." — Miklós Rédei Context: Dyson…
The Dick Medal Review of the film "Knowing" from 2009— Nicolas Cage's character, an astrophysicist, looks at a chart (written 50 years earlier by a child) with a…
The following, from Wikipedia, is an image of Utopia 14, the 1954 paperback reissue of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1952 novel Player Piano. Commentary from Wikipedia— “A player piano is…
Diamond-Faceted: Transformations of the Rock A discussion of Stevens's late poem "The Rock" (1954) in Wallace Stevens: A World of Transforming Shapes, by Alan D. Perlis, Bucknell University…
The Devil in the Details Here are clearer pictures of the Einstein-Gutkind letter discussed here February 7. The pictures are from the Bloomsbury Auctions site. The Bloomsbury…
Back to the Garden Film star Richard Widmark died on Monday, March 24. From Log24 on that date: "Hanging from the highest limb of the apple tree are…
Point of View "In a sense, too, Wallace Stevens has spent a lifetime writing a single poem. What gives his best work its astonishing power and vitality is…