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Space Speech

"Here space itself truly spoke…."

Carroll Thanks the Academy

Gary Gutting, "Arguing About Language," in "The Stone," The New York Times  philosophy column, yesterday— There's a sense in which we speak language and a sense in which,…

Rhetorical Answer

NOW ENJOY BRILLIANT COLLEGE COURSES IN YOUR HOME OR CAR! The sun was burning down…. There was a trembling in the air as the unnamed colors and landforms…

Rhetorical Question

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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…

Imago, Imago, Imago

Recommended— an online book— Flight from Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory, by Steven Cassedy, U. of California Press, 1990. See in particular Valéry and…

Friday December 19, 2008

Inside the White Cube Part I: The White Cube Part II: Inside   Part III: Outside Click to enlarge. Mark Tansey, The Key (1984) For remarks on religion…

Friday June 6, 2008

Order and Disorder Midrash: The Dance of Chance Associated Press "Today in History"  Thought for Today: "Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder." — Paul Valery,…

Friday September 21, 2007

Word and Object "We may recall the ideal of 'dryness' which we associate with the symbolist movement, with writers such as T. E. Hulme and T. S. Eliot,…

Friday May 25, 2007

Dance and the Soul From Log24 on this date last year: "May there be an ennui of the first idea? What else, prodigious scholar, should there be?" —…