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Night's Hymn of the Rock

One way of interpreting the symbol    at the end of yesterday's post is via the phrase "necessary possibility." See that phrase in (for instance) a post of July 24,…

Mystery Box III: Inside, Outside

(Continued from Mystery Box, Feb. 4, and Mystery Box II, Feb. 5.) The Box Inside the Box Outside the Box For the connection of the inside  notation to the outside  geometry, see…

Big Rock

From the LA Times  online obituaries today: Michael Feran Baigent was born in Nelson, New Zealand, in 1948. After graduating from New Zealand's University of Canterbury with a degree in psychology,…

Stevens and the Rock

Passage quoted in A Philosopher's Stone (April 4, 2013)— This passage from Heidegger suggested the lexicon excerpt on to hypokeimenon  (the underlying) in yesterday's post Lexicon. A related passage: The…

Space Itself

From The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens , John N. Serio, ed., "Stevens's Late Poetry," by B.J. Leggett, pp. 62-75, an excerpt from page 70: Click the above image…

Poetry and Truth

From today's noon post— "In all his poems with all their enchantments for the poet himself, there is the final enchantment that they are true. The significance of…

The Shattered Mind

For St. Peter's Day "For Stevens, the poem 'makes meanings of the rock.' In the mind, 'its barrenness becomes a thousand things/ And so exists no more.' In…

Beyond Forgetfulness

From this journal on July 23, 2007— It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves. We must be cured of it by a cure of the…

Romancing the Metaphor

Background — Gerard Manley Hopkins on "the comfort of the Resurrection" and "immortal diamond" in this journal. From a 1990 novel —

Test

From a post by Ivars Peterson, Director of Publications and Communications at the Mathematical Association of America, at 19:19 UTC on June 19, 2010— Exterior panels and detail…