Da Capo, Part II:
The Elegant Window
From a review ofThe Nick Tosches Reader,published by Da Capo Press:
"Elegant as a slow blues."
-- Rolling Stone "Examples are thestained-glass windows of knowledge."
-- V…
Da Capo You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it
again? …
Glasshouse Productions
presents:
The Man in the Glass Booth
and the sequel,
The Man in the Glass Box.
"I don’t know how you expiate guilt."
-- Philip Johnson, Vanity Fair, May 1993
…
From today's San Diego Union-Tribune:
Is it safe?
Crystal Night
From artbook.com:
Mies van der Rohe:
Mies in Berlin
Winner of
The Society of Architectural Historians2002 Philip Johnson Award
for Excellence
Exhibition Catalog
"Published to accompany
…
The Schroeder-Bernstein Theorem arranged in
musical form
by Norman Megill
For the mad musicians
of PrincetonTo hear the music,click on the notes:
Diamonds Are Forever Robert Stone,
A Flag for Sunrise: "
'That old Jew gave me this here.' Egan looked at the
diamond. 'I ain't giving this to you, understand? The old
man gave it to me for my boy. It's wo…
The Diamond
of Possibility
by Keith Allen Korcz "We symbolize logical necessity with the box ()
and logical possibility with the diamond (). I first discuss combining
negations with the box and diamond, noting
that…
Old School Tie
From a review of A Beautiful Mind:
"We are introduced to John Nash, fuddling flat-footed about the
Princeton courtyard, uninterested in his…
Death and the Spirit,
Part IVFrom Tuesday:
Seriously.
See also
Death and the Spirit, Part I, Death and the Spirit, Part II, and
Death and the Spirit, Part III.
Go Tigers!
Recommended reading for the
Princeton Evangelical Fellowship (PEF):
Walter Kirn, Lost in the Meritocracy,
Atlantic Monthly Jan.-Feb. 2005
The PEF in action:
"Only by…
I mean, seriously...
"The Comedians is about three men, Smith, Jones and
Brown...."
"Again I was aware of the three names, interchangeable like comic masks
in a farce."
-- Graham Greene, The Comedians, Penguin paperb…
But seriously...A follow-up to the previous
"tiger" entry (which was about an old but good dirty joke).
I just subscribed to The New York Review of Books online for another
year, prompted by my desire to read Roger S…
Death and the Spirit, Part III
In memory of comedian
Gene Baylos, who died
on Jan. 10, 2005:
From the dark jungle
as a tiger bright,
Form from the viewless Spirit
leaps to light.
-- Rumi, "Reality and…
Globe Song
Are you a lucky little lady
in The City of Light
Or just another lost angel...
City of Night
-- Jim Morrison, L.A. Woman
(See Sunday's noon entry.)
Of course, it's the lost angels
that …
Four Quartets Symbols A Game
of Chess Geometry
for Jews Geometry
of Quartets
Death and the
Spirit, Part II
Readings
Are you a lucky little lady
in The City of Light
Or just another lost angel...
City of Night
-- Jim Morrison, L.A. Woman
Fourmill…
Geometry DownloadThere is a new web page
offering
my notes on finite geometry in a very large (about 7 MB) zipped folder
for downloading. (Individual notes may be previewed without downloading
the folder.)
State of Grace
Utmost is relative --
Have not or Have
Adjacent sums
Enough -- the first Abode
On the familiar Road
Galloped in Dreams --
Emily Dickinson
"Only through time time is conquered."
— T. S. Eliot…
Hope of Heaven"Heaven is a state,a sort of
metaphysical state."-- John
O'Hara, Hope of Heaven, 1938"The old men know
when an old man dies."-- Ogden NashSee also the five Log24 entries
ending with the 9 PM entry of
Tue…
Realism
In memory of Humphrey Carpenter:
"Aslan's last words come at the end of The Last Battle: 'There was
a real railway accident [...] Your father and mother and all of you
are--as you used to call it in the S…
Another Death"I should be glad of another
death," wrote T. S. Eliot in "Journey of the Magi."
But not Humphrey Carpenter's. Carpenter, like Eliot and Guy Davenport
(see last two days' entries) died on a January 4th. …
Light at Bologna
"Others say it is a stone that posseses mysterious powers.... often
depicted as a dazzling light. It's a symbol representing power, a
source of immense energy. It nourishes, heals, wounds, blinds,…
Splendor of the Light
The Beginning of a Story
by Guy
Davenport
Lo Splendore della Luce a Bologna
"The locomotive bringing a trainload of philosophers to Bologna hissed
and ground to a standstil…
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The Starof Venus"He looked at the fading light
in the western sky and saw Mercury,
or perhaps it was Venus,
gleaming at him as the evening star.
Darkness and light,
the old man thought.
It is what every hero le…
Remembrance
"Great is your love, Prince Ombra answered finally, and
eternal is its mystery to me. Yet honor was not denied me in the
fire of Creation. Ombra, lord vanquisher of heroes, pledges this,
O brother of…
"A corpse will be
transported by express!"
(Ideograms for Guy Davenport;
see also previous entry.)"At the still point,there the dance is."
-- T. S. EliotIllustration from
Tuesday, April 22, 2003:Temptation
…
In Memory of
Guy DavenportFrom the day Davenport died:
"At Merton College, Oxford,
he wrote the first thesis on Joyce
to be accepted by the university."
-- Today's New York Times
From a very informative essay
…
Epiphany Gift:
A new download page
for the Diamond 16 Puzzle.
Death and the Spirit A meditation for
Twelfth Night on "the whirligig of time" Today's New York Times
obituaries feature two notable graphic artists: Frank
Kelly Freas, who created, among other works, 400 portrait…
The Romantic School
Today's New York Times:
"Mr. Denker was of the romantic school
of chess - always looking to attack."
Related material:
From Endgame:
Black the knight upon that ocean,…
Feast of Stephen
"Time had been canceled.... And here he was again, in the ballroom."
-- Stephen King, The Shining
From a year ago today: "Heaven was kind of a hat on the universe,a lid
that kept everyth…
Metamorphosis
This illustration was added yesterday to Geometry of the 4x4 Square.