Tale « Log24

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Filed under: General — Tags: Logicomix, Objects of Beauty, on101123 — m759 @ 8:00 pm

A reviewer says Steve Martin finds in his new novel An Object of Beauty "a sardonic morality tale."

From this journal on the day The Cube was published (see today's Art Object ) —

m759 @ 12:00 AM

The Past Revisited

From Log24 a year ago on this date, a quote from Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams:

“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?”

For the rest of the story, see the downloadable version at Project Gutenberg of Australia.

See also a post on Mathematics and Narrative from Nov. 14, 2009.

That post compares characters in Many Dimensions to those in Logicomix—

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