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Royal Wrap

For Elvis's Wrap Party    ( image, 1.3 MB )

Raiders of the Lost Tesseract

(Continued from August 13. See also Coxeter Graveyard.) Here the tombstone says "GEOMETRY… 600 BC — 1900 AD… R.I.P." In the geometry of Plato illustrated below, "the figure of…

The Ninth Year

A passage from the Benjamin Jowett translation of Plato's Meno— " 'For in the ninth year* Persephone sends the souls of those from whom she has received the…

Semiotics

"Two clichés make us laugh, but a hundred clichés move us because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves and celebrating a reunion." — Umberto Eco "'Casablanca':…