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In memory of film auteur  Bert I. Gordon, who reportedly
died at 100 yesterday —

"Make me young again." — Attributed to Kilgore Trout

The previous post suggests a search in this journal for Netanyahu.
That search suggests a Wikipedia article on n+1  magazine.

* See Wikipedia for a definition.

On a reported Wednesday, March 8, death —

From Chomsky's remarks in The New York Times  today —

"It is at once comic and tragic, as Borges might have noted,
that so much money and attention should be concentrated
on so little a thing — something so trivial when contrasted
with the human mind, which by dint of language, in the
words of Wilhelm von Humboldt, can make 'infinite use of
finite means,' creating ideas and theories with universal reach."

A search in this  journal for Humboldt University  yields . . .

"Cum grano salis" — Boris Karloff in "The Black Cat."

Author Susanna Moore,
photo by Paresh Gandhi

Points  as Cuts —

An actor's obituary in The New York Times  today suggests
a review of the phrase "geometry and death" in this  journal.
In that review, the phrase, by J. G. Ballard in a 2006 article, 
refers to German fortifications in World War II.  Ballard had
earlier used the same phrase in connection with French
nuclear-test structures in the Pacific —

— From Rushing to Paradise  by J. G. Ballard, 1994.

Those interested in the religious  meaning of the phrase "Saint-Esprit"
may consult this  journal on the date of Ballard's death.

Continues.

A story from Variety  on January 9, 2001 —

"Oh, would you like to swing on a star?" — Song lyric

"Depends on the star, baby." — Sinatra.

"What is the 16 puzzle?" . . . Good question.

Good question. See Spring Fire.

And then there is the Richard  Zanuck Award . . .

"… based on true events, in much the same way that
'Pinocchio' is based on string theory. "

— Film review by Anthony Lane today

"Where whirled and well"

— Conrad Aiken, Great Circle

And the light shone in darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the centre of the silent Word.

— T. S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday"
 

About the Centre:

See also Dorm Room.

Google cullinane zenodo  to  . . .

View "The Square Model"  or download "Notes on finite geometry."