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• ART WARSfor St. Peter's Day Compare and contrast: Pigi Cipelli for The New York Times The Pantheon, Rome Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

  • 6/29/2004 11:22:03 PM

• And So To Bed Advanced Study (6/26/04), continued... Part I: Ulysses When? Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all …

  • 6/29/2004 2:22:03 PM

• Gameplayers of Zen "The void, the ineffable, the sublime,nonsense, nihilism, zero—all are encompassed by 'nothing.' "-- Institute of Contemporary Art,Philadelphia "The Zen disciple sits for long hours silent and mot…

  • 6/27/2004 7:11:07 PM

• Advanced Study Herman Goldstine (left), shown in 1952at the Institute for Advanced Studywith J. Robert Oppenheimer (center)and John von Neumann (right). Click on the picture abovefor an obituary in today's New York T…

  • 6/26/2004 12:00:10 PM

• Deep GameThe entry Ado of June 25, 2004 contains a link to an earlier entry, A Form, continued, of June 5, 2004. This in turn contains a link to a site by Wolfgang Wildgen which contains the following: "Historically, we…

  • 6/26/2004 3:03:03 AM

• Ado Click on above picturefor some background. Click on above picturefor some background. Related material: A Form (May 22, 2004),A Form, continued (June 5, 2004),Balanchine's Birthday (Jan. 9, 2003),Pictures …

  • 6/25/2004 2:00:13 PM

• Dirty TrickSome quotations in memory of philosopher Stuart Hampshire, who died on June 13, 2004.From the Hampshire obituary in The Guardian:IHe frequently told the story of how, towards the end of the war, he had to int…

  • 6/22/2004 9:00:01 AM

• Ishtar WannabeReuters, Los Angeles,June 17, 2004 09:09 PM ET--Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone has adopted the Hebrew name Esther.I personally feel that a more deserving candidate for such a flattering name change would b…

  • 6/17/2004 11:00:14 PM

• Bloomsday at 100

  • 6/16/2004 12:00:02 PM

• Kierkegaard on death: "I have thought too much about death not to know that he cannot speak earnestly about death who does not know how to employ (for awakening, please note) the subtlety and all the profound wa…

  • 6/15/2004 4:00:00 PM

• Spider Web Thanks to JadedFey for pointing out thisRay Charles connection.

  • 6/13/2004 6:23:25 PM

• Don Giovanni, Part II (See entries of June 8, 2004,and June 4, 2004.)Ingmar Bergman long ago "earned the nickname of the 'demon director,' such are the demands that he makes on his performers." -- Anthony Lane i…

  • 6/12/2004 6:12:02 PM

• "Who's got the last laugh now?"-- "They All Laughed,"words by Ira Gershwin,music by George Gershwin,from the 1937 film Shall We Dance(sung by Ginger Rogers,then danced byFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) See also the…

  • 6/12/2004 3:31:02 PM

• For Ray Charles Seven Spanish Angels at the Altar of the Sun

  • 6/11/2004 11:00:07 AM

• Dark MusicIllustrated Paul Klee From today's Arts & Letters Daily: Critics in Mozart’s agethrew up their handsat the dark Don Giovanni,calling it perverse, amoral.These days, such qualitiesturn us …

  • 6/8/2004 6:11:00 PM

• AnomalyFrom today's New York Times:Robert Quine, 61,Punk Rock Guitarist,Philosopher's Nephew,DiesBy BEN SISARIO Robert Quine, a noted guitarist of the New York rock scene of the 1970's and 80's who played with Richard…

  • 6/8/2004 3:31:01 PM

• The X Factor On OSS veteran Charles Hostler, an unsung D-Day hero, now sung: "He was trained by the British MI6 intelligence agency for an operation known as X2 - or 'double cross.' " -- Beth Gard…

  • 6/6/2004 4:30:05 PM

• FromThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Juliana said, "Oracle, why did you write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy? What are we supposed to learn?" "You have a disconcertingl…

  • 6/6/2004 1:29:55 PM

• Parallelisms "I confess I do not believe in time.I like to fold my magic carpet,after use, in such a wayas to superimposeone part of the patternupon another." (Nabokov, Speak, Memory) From a review of On the C…

  • 6/6/2004 1:28:40 PM

• A Form, continued... Some cognitive uses of the 3x3 square are discussed in From Lullus to Cognitive Semantics: The Evolution of a Theory of Semantic Fields by Wolfgang Wildgen and in Another Page in…

  • 6/5/2004 11:11:46 AM

• Feel lucky?Well, do you? This entry was inspired by the following... 1. A British blogger's comment today. This man, feeling like a miserable failure himself, was cheered up by the following practical joke: "If r…

  • 6/4/2004 11:22:33 AM

• STAR WARSContinued... From Oct. 23, 2002: Today's New York Times story on Richard Helms, together with my reminiscences in the entry that follows it below, suggest the following possibility for symbol…

  • 6/3/2004 3:17:21 PM

• One Brief Shining Moment William Manchester, author of the JFK book with the above title, died today at 82.

  • 6/1/2004 8:23:40 PM

• Seize the Day From a March 31 entry -- A Jesuit cites Quine:"To be is to be the value of a variable." -- Willard Van Orman Quine, cited by Joseph T. Clark, S. J., in Conventional Logic and Modern Logic For…

  • 6/1/2004 3:31:23 PM