and the New York Lottery
A search in this journal for yesterday's evening number in the New York Lottery, 359, leads to…
The Cerebral Savage:
On the Work of Claude Lévi-Strauss
by Clifford Geertz
Shown below is 359, the final page of Chapter 13 in
The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays by Clifford Geertz,
New York, 1973: Basic Books, pp. 345-359 —
This page number 359 also appears in this journal in an excerpt from Dan Brown's novel Angels & Demons—
See this journal's entries for March 1-15, 2009, especially…
| Sunday, March 15, 2009 5:24 PM
Philosophy and Poetry: The Origin of Change A note on the figure
"Two things of opposite natures seem to depend On one another, as a man depends On a woman, day on night, the imagined On the real. This is the origin of change. Winter and spring, cold copulars, embrace And forth the particulars of rapture come." -- Wallace Stevens, "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," Canto IV of "It Must Change" Sunday, March 15, 2009 11:00 AM Ides of March Sermon: Angels, Demons,
"Symbology" "On Monday morning, 9 March, after visiting the Mayor of Rome and the Municipal Council on the Capitoline Hill, the Holy Father spoke to the Romans who gathered in the square outside the Senatorial Palace…
'… a verse by Ovid, the great Latin poet, springs to mind. In one of his elegies he encouraged the Romans of his time with these words: "Perfer et obdura: multo graviora tulisti." "Hold out and persist: (Tristia, Liber V, Elegia XI, verse 7).'" This journal
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The symmetry of the yin-yang symbol, of the diamond-theorem symbol, and of Brown's Illuminati Diamond is also apparent in yesterday's midday New York lottery number (see above).
"Savage logic works like a kaleidoscope…." — Clifford Geertz on Lévi-Strauss