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Deep Beauty

(Continued)  Old punchline:  "Spell chrysanthemum." Variation:  "Spell coordinatization." Related test:  Chrysanthemum Coordinatization — Context:  Root circle.

Tag

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"…

Circles

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…

Ein Bild

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…

Nachthexen

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…

Roots

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…

Where Credit Is Due…

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…

In the Details

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….

Artifice of Eternity

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:…

Saturday June 14, 2008

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…