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(Continued) Old punchline: "Spell chrysanthemum." Variation: "Spell coordinatization." Related test: Chrysanthemum Coordinatization — Context: Root circle.
Some recent posts have been added to the Root Circle saga. Update of 12:13 AM July 16, 2013: Click the above image for further details. This "every other term"…
A sort of poem by Gauss and Weyl — Click the circle for the context in Weyl's Symmetry . For related remarks, see the previous post. A literary excursus— Brad Leithauser…
A rhetorical question from this journal— "Und was für ein Bild des Christentums ist dabei herausgekommen?" A rhetorical answer from this journal (June 5, 2006)— Material closely related to the above…
From a Telegraph obituary about a death on July 8, 2013: "The pilots’ tactic was to fly to within a certain distance of the target, and cut their…
This journal on June 24, 2006— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , 1974: "But what's happening is that each year our old flat earth…
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…
Today's New York Times— Byzantine "…there were fresh questions about whether the intelligence overhaul that created the post of national intelligence director was fatally flawed, and whether Mr….
A Medal In memory of Byzantine scholar Ihor Sevcenko, who died at 87 on St. Stephen's Day, 2009– William Grimes on Sevcenko in this morning's New York Times:…
Cross and Wheel An online tribute to Tim Russert this morning had a song by a Russert favorite, Bruce Springsteen: "Wearin' the cross of my calling, on…