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"For Mr. Lumet, location mattered deeply."

— April 9th online New York Times

"That old Jew gave me this here."

— A Flag for Sunrise

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Continued from Good Friday —

The New Yorker , in the above excerpt, says of David Deutsch that
"his books have titles of colossal confidence
('The Fabric of Reality,' 'The Beginning of Infinity')."

The Fabric of Reality — A post from Good Friday —

The Beginning of Infinity — Another Good Friday death—

Sidney Michaels, adapter of the 1962 play "Tchin-Tchin."

"At play's end they are Chaplinesque waifs living in the charmed circle
of innocents that includes saints, children, drunkards and madmen.
Subliminally, Tchin-Tchin is a Christian existential fable." — TIME

The title refers to an article in The Harvard Crimson , "Atlas to the Text," on March 8, 2011.

"Atlas to the Text," by Nicholas T. Rinehart —

"… a small set of undergraduates culminate their academic careers with a translation thesis. Ford is one such student, currently completing her edition of Euripides’ 'The Bacchae,' a Greek tragedy centered on the god Dionysus’ revenge against his mortal family."

Wikipedia on " The Bacchae"—

"The guards return with Dionysus himself, disguised as his priest and the leader of the Asian maenads. Pentheus questions him, still not believing that Dionysus is a god. However, his questions reveal that he is deeply interested in the Dionysiac rites, which the stranger refuses to reveal fully to him. This greatly angers Pentheus, who has Dionysus locked up. However, being a god, he is quickly able to break free and creates more havoc, razing the palace of Pentheus to the ground in a giant earthquake and fire."

The illustration for the Crimson  article formed part of a post in this journal, Paradigms Lost, on March 10—

From the author of The Abacus Conundrum—

Harlan Kane's sequel to The Apollo Meme—

THE KRISTEN EFFECT

"Thus the universal mutual attraction between the sexes is represented."
— Hexagram 31

In the May Smithsonian  magazine— "What Defines a Meme?"

Related — Seven is Heaven…

* For the connection to Apollo, see Oct. 9, 2006.

"The Easter Vigil is the most important liturgy on the church's calendar, when the faithful mark the passage from Christ's death to his resurrection on Easter Sunday. It is rich with symbols: fire and light signifying Jesus' resurrection, and the water used to baptize people into the faith….

This year, students of the Legion of Christ, the conservative order undergoing a major Vatican-mandated overhaul, provided the liturgical service at the vigil. The Vatican took over the Legion last May 1 after confirming its founder was a pedophile."

— AP story

See also Naples in this journal.

"Oh Death oh Death please let me see
If Christ has turned his back on me
When you were called and asked to bow
You wouldn’t take heed
And it’s too late now

Oh Death oh Death please give me time
To fix my heart and change my mind
Your mind is fixed
Your heart is bound
And I have the shackles to drag you down

Farewell, farewell
To all farewell
My doom is fixed
I’m summoned to hell
As long as God
In heaven shall dwell
My soul my soul shall scream in hell"

— Sung by Hazel Dickens in "Songcatcher"

The rest of the lyrics, and a video, may be found
at PaganSpace.net — "The Meeting Place for the Occult Community."

See also Harrowing in this journal.

In memory of Hazel Dickens, two links — Unique Figure and Hello Stranger .

Weepin' like a willow, mournin' like a dove
Weepin' like a willow, mournin' like a dove
There's a girl of the country
That I really love

Literary remarks for Maundy Thursday—

      — C. P. Snow, foreword to G. H. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology

Related material—

Emory University press release of January 20th, 2011:

"In 1937, Hans Rademacher found an exact formula for calculating partition values. While the method was a big improvement over Euler's exact formula, it required adding together infinitely many numbers that have infinitely many decimal places. 'These numbers are gruesome,' Ono says….

… The final eureka moment occurred near another Georgia landmark: Spaghetti Junction. Ono and Jan Bruinier were stuck in traffic near the notorious Atlanta interchange. While chatting in the car, they hit upon a way to overcome the infinite complexity of Rademacher's method. They went on to prove a formula that requires only finitely many simple numbers.

'We found a function, that we call P, that is like a magical oracle,' Ono says. 'I can take any number, plug it into P, and instantly calculate the partitions of that number….'"

See also this journal on April 15 and a Google Groups [sage-devel] thread, Ono-Bruinier partition formula. That thread started on April 15 and was last updated this morning.

Part I— A Naples, Florida obituary for artist Robert Vickrey, who died Sunday.
            (See also this evening's earlier post Soul Art.)

Part II— "Stairway to Heaven," by Vickrey

Part III— Definition of "cornette"

Part IV— Recent photo of artist Josefine Lyche

Picture by Robert Vickrey.
Vickrey died Sunday.
See Sunday School.

This journal at 5:48 PM EST on Thursday, March 10, 2011—

Paradigms Lost

(Continued from February 19)

The cover of the April 1, 1970 second edition of
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , by Thomas S. Kuhn—

Note the quote on the cover—

"A landmark in intellectual history."— Science

This afternoon's online New York Times—

Google today, asked to "define:landmark," yields—

• A boundary line indicated by a stone, stake, etc.
  (Deu 19:14; Deu 27:17; Pro 22:28; Pro 23:10; Job 24:2).
  Landmarks could not be removed without incurring the severe displeasure of God.
  sacred-texts.com/bib/ebd/ebd223.htm