From Saturday Night Live last night—
Related material from the Log24 post "Now Lens"
(March 11, 2011)—
Errol Morris in The New York Times on March 9, 2011—
"If everything is incommensurable, then everything
is seen through the lens of the present, the lens of now ."
"Borges concluded by quoting Chesterton, 'there is nothing
more frightening than a labyrinth that has no center.' [72]"
See also Borges on Shakespeare, everything, and nothing
in a note from September 7, 2006.
Everything and nothing in Peter J. Cameron's weblog yesterday—
The existence of everything entails the existence of nothing;
indeed, the existence of anything (any set A) entails
the existence of the empty set (the set {x∈A:x≠x}).
But not the other way round.
Right, I had better put on my anorak and go out now …
Illustration added by m759—
How many miles to Babylon?*
Three score miles and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?**
Yes, and back again.
* Suggested by the Pindar link in this journal yesterday.
** Quoted in the "Seven is Heaven" post on All Souls' Day.