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Just What We Need Thomas Pynchon's new novel Inherent Vice comes out today. Title of a review in The New York Times: Another Doorway to the Paranoid Pynchon…
Wechsler Cubes "Confusion is nothing new." — Song lyric, Cyndi Lauper Part I: Magister Ludi Hermann Hesse's 1943 The Glass Bead Game (Picador paperback, Dec. 6, 2002, pp….
Adieu: A Story for Dobbs Internet Movie Database on screenwriter Lem Dobbs: "Trivia: Son of painter R.B. (Ron) Kitaj. Took his pseudonym from the character Humphrey Bogart played…
Daniel Radcliffe is 18 today. Greetings. “The greatest sorcerer (writes Novalis memorably) would be the one who bewitched himself to the point of taking his…
Raiders of the Lost Stone (Continued from June 23) Scott McLaren on Charles Williams: "In Many Dimensions (1931) Williams sets before his reader the mysterious Stone of…
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…
720 in the Book (continued) From today's New York Times: Phil Bray Transcendence through spelling: Richard Gere and Flora Cross as father and daughter in "Bee Season."…
Pi continued: (see 9/15/04) Above: Renegade mathematician Max Cohen (Sean Gullette, left) and the leader of the Kabbalah sect, Lenny Meyer (Ben Shenkman) have a chance encounter on…
A Living Church "Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead. Shakespeare has startled you with an image; but Shakespeare will not startle you with any…
At Mount Sinai: Art Theory for Yom Kippur From the New York Times of Sunday, October 5, 2003 (the day that Yom Kippur begins at sunset): "Rabbi Ephraim…