(Continued from In Memoriam (Aug. 22), Chapman's Homer (Aug. 23),
and this morning's Colorful Tale)
An informative, but undated, critique of the late Marvin W. Meyer
by April D. DeConick at the website of the Society of Biblical Literature
appeared in more popular form in an earlier New York Times
op-ed piece, "Gospel Truth," dated Dec. 1, 2007.
A check, in accord with Jungian synchronicity, of this journal
on that date yields a quotation from Plato's Phaedrus —
"The soul or animate being has the care of the inanimate."
Related verses from T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets —
"The detail of the pattern is movement."
"So we moved, and they, in a formal pattern."
Some background from pure mathematics (what the late
William P. Thurston called "the theory of formal patterns")—