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Friday, July 2, 2010

The Girl Who Fixed the Omega

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:29 pm

Thanks to Nora Ephron for "The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut"
(New Yorker  of July 5, 2010).

How to type a capital Omega—

Number Lock on, Alt key down, then numeric keypad
(or, on laptop, fn-style numbers on letter keys) 234.
Alt key up. Result: Ω.  Number Lock off.

Related poetic flight of fancy—

The most recent occurrence of 234 in the New York Lottery was on
August 6, 2008, the Feast of the Transfiguration.

Clicking on the Transfiguration link in this journal's post
for that date leads to an article on poet Paul Mariani.

Tracing a quotation in that article leads to…

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10A/100702-Mariani-TheCup.gif

The date of Mariani's poem, 24 August 2002, leads to a post in this journal
related to Mariani's "Loyola's Company" and to "that language only
light and diamonds know."

Related material: last night's Omega at Eight.

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