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Found on Google today:

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Today's homily– from The New York Times–

Latin Mass Appeal.

Related art– 

Black Friday,
Midnight in Dostoevsky, and
A Cross for the Goat Men.

Elements of Story  was published on
June 23, 2009.  Also on that date:

Picture This.

A Cross for the
Goat Men

Related material:

Krauss, Malevich, and
Linguistic Creation

Saturday, November 28, Reuters

Moscow:

"Russian television showed grainy footage of rescue workers working under flood lights near debris on the side of the train tracks.

'There are 25 dead and 87 injured,' Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu told a heated video conference during which he barked out orders to local rescuers in the early hours of Saturday morning.

He said the fate of 41 other people was still unclear.

A spokesman for Russia's main domestic intelligence service, the FSB, declined to comment on whether an attack was suspected…."

Elsewhere:

"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) (Russian: ФСБ, Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации; Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the main domestic security service of the Russian Federation and the main successor agency of the Soviet-era Cheka, NKVD and KGB." —Wikipedia

Black Square,
Black Cross,
Malevich

Related material:

Eid al-Adha,
The Social Aspect of Eid, and
Homage to Malevich

"So thou beholdest the contingent things
    Ere in themselves they are, fixing thine eyes
    Upon the point in which all times are present."

Paradiso, Canto XVII

Related material:

This journal, November 20, 2009:

Only the Dead Know
and A Guten Shabbos

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Metaphysics + Quality

Sinatra + Orpheus

Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom
When the jungle shadows  fall….

— Night and Day

The Story Theory of Truth

“We have a need to tell ourselves stories
that explain it all. We use these stories to
supply the metaphysics, without which
life seems pointless and empty.”

– David Brooks, NY Times of Nov. 10

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's website has quotes on her soon-to-be-published novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God—

"Hilarious"
"Savagely funny"
"Supremely witty"
"Rollicking"

Description of the novel–

"At the center: Cass Seltzer, a professor of psychology…."

Not to be confused with Professor Seltzer in Wanted  or characters in the films of Matt Damon–

Related material–

Stories and Metaphysics

American Music Awards
Finale

Roll with it

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Yesterday's sermon

For Gabrielle Anwar and Noah Wyle:

Solomons Dance

Bridge caption from Flickr —

"William Hogarth theorized a perfect curve– his 'curve of beauty'– in the 18th century. I'm not sure the designer of this bridge took that into account, but Hogarth's curve is definitely there…."

Dance caption from Brooklyn Academy of Music —

"Elegant and uncompromising"

Friday night and the lights are low…

Only the Dead Know…

Jeanne-Claude, Collaborator With Christo, Dies at 74

See Feb. 13, 2005, and Feb. 16, 2005:

The Letter Chet:

Click the above for source (pdf).

A part of the installation by
Christo and Jeanne-Claude,
“The Gates.” Photo by
Nicole Bengiveno in
The New York Times.

“Orthodox Jews are disappearing from Jerusalem. One moment they are praying at the Western Wall, and in the blink of an eye, they seem to evaporate…. In order to build the Third Temple while being respectful of the Islamic structures on the Temple Mount, the Jews have discovered a way to access a fourth spatial dimension. They will build the Third Temple invisibly ‘above’ the Temple Mount and ‘above’ the Mosque in the direction of the fourth dimension.”

— Clifford Pickover, description of his novel Jews in Hyperspace

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

— Henry David Thoreau, conclusion of Walden

Related material: Log24 entries, morning and evening of June 11, 2009,  “Text” (June 22, 2009), and Salomon Bochner‘s remarks on space in “Eight is a Gate” (Feb. 26, 2008).

Continued from Monday:

An educated consumer
is our best customer!

“Acme Klein Bottles — where
yesterday’s future is here today!”

Clifford Pickover now seems to be trying to catch up with Christian fantasists Madeleine L’Engle and Charles Williams. Click on the images below for further details.

Chinese Boxes

Continued from “The  Dead Shepherd,” Jan. 24, 2007…

Yesterday’s Washington Post:

“James R. Lilley, 81, a longtime CIA operative in Asia who served as ambassador to China during the Tiananmen Square crackdown… died Nov. 12.”

James R. Lilley

From a page linked to here on the date of Lilley’s death:

“… the extraordinary set of nested Chinese boxes that we introduced earlier in this series….”

A seemingly unrelated item in today’s New York Times obituaries index:

This suggests an article on temporal logic at IBM Developer Works, which contains a link to Time-Rover.com.

This in turn leads to…

Man-Tak Shing

Shing’s CV at the Naval Postgraduate School affirms the usefulness of temporal logic.

Those who prefer metaphysics may consult the novel Many Dimensions referred to in yesterday’s entries and in “Relativity Blues” (Feb. 20, 2005)–

From Many Dimensions:

“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be purely logical.  Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense, were the rules of its pure logic?”

Good question.

Vincent Price as Egghead

Click on images for further details.

“I started a joke….”

— The Bee Gees

See also yesterday’s entry.

“In part viXra.org is a parody of arXiv.org….”

— http://vixra.org/why

Related material:

• Humpty Dumpty, Part I:
  Puzzles
• Humpty Dumpty, Part II:
  Annotated Alice
• Humpty Dumpty, Part III:
  “We Need the Eggs.”

Update of 9 PM for James Joyce:

Henneagram

Perigee Books paperback, 1980

“Public commentators assumed the air of kindergarten teachers who had to protect their children from thinking certain impermissible and intolerant thoughts.”

— David Brooks in today’s New York Times

What else is new?

I prefer the impermissible
and intolerant Stan Lee
(author of novels, not comic books):

Dunn’s Conundrum is reportedly
the basis of a screenplay titled,
after the novel’s main character,
“The Garbageman.”

magis tegitur, tectus magis

“This passage… equates the big Other
with the impenetrability of another subject
beyond the ‘wall of language’….”

— zizkubrick.htm

Endgames:

Cuernavaca, Amalfi, Berlin

Deja vu all over again.

For a girl I saw once in USA Today in 1995:

Part I:

Top of the online front page, NY Times this morning–

Part II:

Part III:

Adapted song lyrics from “Colorado Trail“–

Kendra was a pretty girl
God Almighty knows

Part IV:

Very like another girl 30 years earlier…

Click to enlarge.

www.themenwhostareatgoatsmovie.com

Colorado Springs Gazette
movie reviewer Brandon Fibbs yesterday:

“Much of this is genuinely amusing.
So why then am I not laughing?”

The Interpreter’s House

John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, The Second Part, “The Interpreter’s House“–

“When the Interpreter had shown them this, He has them into the very best room in the house; a very brave room it was. So He bid them look round about, and see if they could find anything profitable there. Then they looked round and round; for there was nothing there to be seen but a very great spider on the wall: and that they overlooked.

MERCY. Then said Mercy, Sir, I see nothing; but Christiana held her peace.

INTER. But, said the Interpreter, look again, and she therefore looked again, and said, Here is not anything but an ugly spider, who hangs by her hands upon the wall. Then said He, Is there but one spider in all this spacious room? Then the water stood in Christiana’s eyes, for she was a woman quick of apprehension; and she said, Yea, Lord, there is here more than one. Yea, and spiders whose venom is far more destructive than that which is in her. The Interpreter then looked pleasantly upon her, and said, Thou hast said the truth. This made Mercy blush, and the boys to cover their faces, for they all began now to understand the riddle.‌74‌

Then said the Interpreter again, “The spider taketh hold with their hands (as you see), and is in kings’ palaces’ (Prov. 30:28). And wherefore is this recorded, but to show you, that how full of the venom of sin soever you be, yet you may, by the hand of faith, lay hold of, and dwell in the best room that belongs to the King’s house above!‌75‌

CHRIST. I thought, said Christiana, of something of this; but I could not imagine it all. I thought that we were like spiders, and that we looked like ugly creatures, in what fine room soever we were; but that by this spider, this venomous and ill-favoured creature, we were to learn how to act faith, that came not into my mind. And yet she has taken hold with her hands, as I see, and dwells in the best room in the house. God has made nothing in vain.”

Related material:

The spider metaphor in
Under the Volcano
(April 10, 2004) and
an AP obituary
from yesterday.