"In collage, juxtaposition is everything."
-- Margo Jefferson in the New York Times, April 2, 2004
The above material may be regarded
as commemorating the March 31
birth of René Descartes a…
Quine's Way
or the Highway
continued
The stranglehold of the Wiener Kreis on Harvard philosophy may at last
be breaking:
"... imagination and belief are related.... belief presupposes
imagination...."
…
Bright
Star
Click on star
for background.
From
The Mother Ship
Camille Paglia, The Magic of Images:
"Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a
sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical fram…
Quarter to Three,
continued
A Google search on plato cave jesus tomb yields the following: Parched
with thirst am I, and dying. Nay, drink of Me, the ever-flowing
Spring.... -- Ancient …
Harrowing
Definition 1 Definition 2
Click on picture for details.
Added at 1:11 PM Saturday:
From a discussion of gnostic heresies in today's Tennessean.com:
Gnostic way a ba…
Sermon
Related material:
Click on the "spider"
symbol below.
Questions or comments on the sermon:
webweaver@genetics.med.harvard.edu
The Crimson Passion, continued:
Supper at Eight
Spy Wednesday
Nature morte à l'échiquier, (les cinq sens)
vers 1655 ?, une narration
à valeur symbolique... Huile sur bois, 73 x 55 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris.
The God Factor
Reba McEntire on
Make a Difference Day:
"Kids who may never get out of their town will be able to see the world
through books. But I'm talking about my passion. What's yours?"
"There…
Make a Différance
From Frida Saal's
Lacan Derrida:
"Our proposal includes the lozenge (diamond) in between the names,
because in the relationship / non-relationship that is established
among them, a…
The Enemy
See Remembering Jacques Derrida.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."
-- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, Tor paperback reprint, 1994, p. 262
"Différance is, for Derrida, the ke…
Twinkle, Twinkle
(continued) Background:
See log24 entries for Aug. 19, 2003,
for Aug. 19, 2004, and the entries
ending at midnight, Sept. 29-30, 2004.
What others say:
A Postmodern Twinkle
A Postmod…
"My sword I give to him that shall succeed
me...." -- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
J.Y. Smith
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, March 18, 2005; Page A01 "Georg…
Readings for
St. Patrick's Day
Time of this entry: 12:00:36 PM.
Hence, …
Midnight Drums for Larry
The Harvard Crimson, March 16:
"Voting by secret ballot in a Faculty meeting at the Loeb Drama Center,
218 faculty members affirmed a motion put on the docket by Professor of
Anthropo…
Religion at Harvard
The Children's Hour
Harvard Magazine,
Sept.-Oct. 2004: "With
the legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts, Harvard couples were
among those who…
Bomb
See The Meaning of 3:16 (2/28/05),
The Death of George Scott (March 9, 2005),
Is Nothing Sacred? (March 9, 2000), and
The Exorcist Revisited (July 2, 2004).
For the hidden spiritual meanin…
Logos For the religious significance of the
logo on the left, see Why Me?
For the religious significance of the
logo on the right, see Palgrave.com.
Related material:
previous entry and Style.
Three Eleanors
Continued from March 10:
For some children...
It takes three Eleanors.
1 2 3
For Alice, a beautiful child
who died in London
on Tuesday
…
Final Arrangements, continued...
From the Women's History Month Soundtrack: Nellie McCaslin
in
Life on the
Mississippi
(2001) …
Clifford Modules
Women's History Month, continued:
My Dark Lady
"Form the turtle!"
-- Rex Harrison See also Philadelphia Story.
Lucas Promises
a Darker 'Star Wars'
See too:
Click on picture for details.
For some theological background
to this and the previous 8 entries,
see log24 Sept. 1-15, 2003,
which contains the following…
To a Young Scholar
truth is truth, tautalogous and true; what beauty is, that's the thing
to know
Posted 11/16/2002 at 1:51 am by TheYoungScholar
To a young scholar:GuqinGoCalligraphyPainting
Posted …
Philadelphia Story Friday, March 11, 2005
James Biddle, 75, died at his family's estate, Andalusia, near
Philadelphia yesterday. From today's New York Times: "Mr. Biddle …
Women's History Month
(continued)
For some children...
It takes three Eleanors.
1 2 3
Final Arrangements
(continued)
Macalester College on Don Celender:
"An Art History prize fund
has been established in his name.
Contributions can be sent to
the Macalester Art Department."In today's Art His…
Final ArrangementsTrude Rittmann, an
Arranger
of Broadway Favorites, Dies at 96
Ms. Rittmann died on February 22.
For related arrangements, see the
five log24.net entries ending on that date. "It's quarter to t…
Women's History Month,
continued:
American Activities
Col. Mary A. Hallaren,
a much-decorated WW II veteran and head of the Women's Army Corps,
died on Feb. 13, 2005. U.S…
Ch-ch-Changes
"Everything
changes but the law of change does not change."
-- Khalifa Abdul Hakim
"He who has perceived the meaning of change fixes his attention no
longer on transitory individual things but on t…
Necessity, Possibility, Symmetry
Matrix group actions,
March 26, 1985 "We symbolize logical necessity with the box () and
logical possibility with the diamond ()." -- Keith Allen Korcz,
(Log24.net, …
Women's History Month
White Stone
"I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little
starbursts of writing
from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English
language-- and it is not because I am a biblical schola…
3/16 ContinuedThe New Yorker, issue dated
March 7, 2005, on Hunter S. Thompson:
"... his true model and hero was F. Scott Fitzgerald. He used to type
out
pages from 'The Great Gatsby,' just to get the feeling, he said,…