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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Today’s Sermon

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:00 am

More Than Matter

Wheel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

(f) Poetry

The burden or refrain of a song.

⇒ “This meaning has a low degree of authority, but is supposed from the context in the few cases where the word is found.” Nares.

You must sing a-down a-down, An you call him a-down-a. O, how the wheel becomes it! Shak.

“In one or other of G. F. H. Shadbold’s two published notebooks, Beyond Narcissus and Reticences of Thersites, a short entry appears as to the likelihood of Ophelia’s enigmatic cry: ‘Oh, how the wheel becomes it!’ referring to the chorus or burden ‘a-down, a-down’ in the ballad quoted by her a moment before, the aptness she sees in the refrain.”

— First words of Anthony Powell’s novel “O, How the Wheel Becomes It!” (See Library Thing.)

Anthony Powell's 'O, How the Wheel Becomes It!' along with Laertes' comment 'This nothing's more than matter.'

Related material:

Photo uploaded on January 14, 2009
with caption “This nothing’s more than matter”

and the following nothings from this journal
on the same date– Jan. 14, 2009

The Fritz Leiber 'Spider' symbol in a square

A Singer 7-cycle in the Galois field with eight elements

The Eightfold (2x2x2) Cube

The Jewel in Venn's Lotus (photo by Gerry Gantt)

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