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Imago Creationis

In the above view, four of the tesseract's 16 vertices are overlaid by other vertices. For views that are more complete and moveable, see Smith's tesseract page. Four-Part…

Tuesday February 24, 2009

  Hollywood Nihilism Meets Pantheistic Solipsism Tina Fey to Steve Martin at the Oscars: "Oh, Steve, no one wants  to hear about our religion … that we made…

Tuesday February 17, 2009

Diamond-Faceted: Transformations of the Rock A discussion of Stevens's late poem "The Rock" (1954) in Wallace Stevens: A World of Transforming Shapes, by Alan D. Perlis, Bucknell University…

Monday July 23, 2007

  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…

Tuesday February 6, 2007

The Poetics of Space The title is from Bachelard. I prefer Stevens: The rock is the habitation of the whole, Its strength and measure, that which is near,…

Saturday August 26, 2006

Philosopher's Rock   (continued from   previous entry) "Alcatraz, Spanish for pelican, was named Isla de los Alcatraces after the birds that were the island's only inhabitants." —Bay City…

Wednesday January 11, 2006

Time in the Rock "a world of selves trying to remember the self before the idea of self is lost– Walk with me world, upon my right hand…

Friday December 10, 2004

Gray Particular in Hartford From Wallace Stevens, "The Rock, Part III: Forms of the Rock in a Night-Hymn" — The rock is    the gray particular of man's…

Sunday December 5, 2004

Chorus from The Rock Author Joan Didion is 70 today. On Didion’s late husband, John Gregory Dunne: “His 1989 memoir Harp includes Dunne’s early years in Hartford and…

Monday January 20, 2003

Shine On, Robinson Jeffers "…be in nothing so moderate as in love of man,        a clever servant, insufferable master. There is the trap that catches noblest spirits,     …