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* See as well "Public Square" in other posts.

See "Imagination and Layered Ontology in Greek Mathematics,"
by Reviel Netz, at

https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/34189/
files/folder/HistSci%20206r%202012/
Other_readings_1064115?preview=4610028.

See also …

https://web.archive.org/web/20010604073902/
http://www.ultrahiq.net:80/MegaSociety/Noesis/NoesisE.htm.

Some background — Posts now tagged Noesis.

"As many philosophers have noted, in the German language,
the word Schein  bears three distinct meanings:

(i) shining, radiance, luminosity

(ii) manifesting, phenomenal appearing, showing itself, coming to light

(iii) illusion, deception, semblance, 'mere' appearance

In the Greek language of Plato's thought, the first two meanings were
bound together by their etymology. But Plato's metaphysics, drawing
a line of irreconcilable separation between the reality of a higher realm
of pure Ideas and the illusoriness of a lower realm consisting of sensuous
appearances, exhibits a logic that he saw connecting inextricably all three
of these seemingly unconnected meanings."

— Levin, David Michael. The Philosopher's Gaze:
Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment . 
Part III, Section 10: "Where the Beauty of Truth Lies."
Berkeley:  University of California Press,  1999.

Images for Martin Gardner's birthday —

"Hail, Caesar!" — The Coen Brothers

See also Bach + Quartet in this  journal.

From the first New York Times Wire  item below …

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"His story is tragic and fascinating, but also
an interesting symbol for the 20th century."

— "Pawn Sacrifice" review by Jordan Hoffman,
     Sept. 18, 2015

See as well William J. Lombardy's obituary in 
today's online New York Times .

Other symbols —

Logo for a current New York Times  series —

A 1989 New York Times  illustration for Florence King's review of The Eight , 
a  novel by Katherine Neville that features prominently the date April 4 —

Illustration by Rodrigo Shopis

See also recent posts now tagged Five Movements for Lombardy.

From today's online Harvard Crimson —

"I open my textbook to page 48, where I’m greeted by
the Russian word for 'hopeless' in bold typeface.
I chuckle, and my Russian teacher throws me a look
of concern. For a moment, I contemplate telling her
the truth: that I find the word 'hopeless' funny, that
I find entertainment in life’s small, meaningless ironic
miseries. I open my mouth, only to mutter 'ничего,' 
the Russian word for 'nothing.' As she turns to face
the blackboard, I silently laugh in my head;
sometimes dark humor is best enjoyed alone."

— Nathan L. Williams ’18, 
    a Government concentrator in Mather House.

Sometimes not.

From the top of the online New York Times front page :

Exegesis:

The title is from this morning's online New York Times  review
of a new Jackie Chan film.

Click the image below for some related posts.

"They all laughed at Christopher Columbus" — Ira Gershwin

Related material — See Gifted in this journal.

See as well Tulips.

Yesterday was the International Day of the Girl Child . . .
A related archived Wikipedia article on Kirkman's schoolgirl problem :

See also the previous post— "IPFS Version"— and https://ipfs.io/.

"As the shellshocked Milne newly returned from the Western Front,
Mr. Gleeson wears a virtually unvarying expression of acute intestinal distress.
Unable to connect with the infant or continue to write his popular plays, Milne
drags the child and his ghastly wife (Margot Robbie) — “I had a baby to
cheer you up!,” she whines — to the paradisiacal forest in Sussex where
the books will take shape."

— Jeannette Catsoulis

See also Princeton's Christopher Robin.

A review.    See also previous posts on this topic.

From the posts of October 9 four years ago —

Two deaths on Yom Kippur 2017 —

A note related to a Yom Kippur death seven years earlier —

See also Monty's Doors as well as this  journal on Steiner and Barthes —

"The Seventh Door Meets the Seventh Function" (August 26, 2017).

61.

Related material —

Click for larger, clearer image.

The conclusion of "Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly,"
by Hart Seely, in The New York Times  online today —

"How about a Heisman?"

"Mathematical research currently relies on
a complex system of mutual trust
based on reputations."

— The late Vladimir Voevodsky,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
The Institute Letter , Summer 2014, p. 8

Voevodsky reportedly died unexpectedly at 51
on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017. 
Yom Kippur began on Friday evening, Sept. 29, 2017.

Related material — 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15375717.

"A giant of the publishing world, and a true believer
in talent and creativity, his passing marks
the end of an era in American media."

— Unsigned "obiturary" in Vogue  online this morning …

https://www.vogue.com/article/si-newhouse-obiturary

O for the days of Avedon and Vreeland!  (See Dick Finds Jo ).

"This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level."

— "Paradoxes and Oxymorons" by John Ashbery,
quoted here in the post Take Your Pick of Dec. 16, 2011.

"The problem is a paradox of the veridical  type,
because the correct result (you should switch doors)
is so counterintuitive it can seem absurd,
but is nevertheless demonstrably true."

— Wikipedia on the Monty Hall problem.

Related material —

The title is that of an exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
that opened on Sunday, September 24.

See the previous post and some Chinese background
from The Cornell Daily Sun  today —

"John W. Lewis, the University’s first professor of Chinese government
and one of the first major China specialists who came out against the
Vietnam War, died on Sept. 4 in Stanford, California. He was 86."

Still enough for you?

" . . . Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness."

— Four Quartets

See posts now tagged Myspace China.

Related story — 

MSU to award honorary doctorate to
Harvard professor Diana Eck

March 8, 2013 — MSU News Service

See also Bozeman and "Ein Eck" in this  journal.

"On April 23, 2009 ….

'I’m reminded of the character in "The Silence of the Lambs," 
Hannibal Lecter, a very brilliant man,' the prosecutor said,
recognizing 'his ability to intelligently and articulately discuss
things occurring in society.'

'But at his core, as with Mr. Lecter at his core, he is a sociopath,' 
the prosecutor said."

— David Stout in an obituary from this evening's online
New York Times

See also this  journal on April 23, 2009, and
a figure from this morning's link Cantina —

 .

Cantina .

For Valéry's phrase "an extreme depth, a torment of thought," see
(via a link from the reported date of the above publisher's death, Aug. 31)
a post of July 15, 2004.

In memory of Lillian Ross, who reportedly died early today —

An Abstract Power.

* As opposed to The Imaginary Professor.

Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, "the man who saved the world," reportedly died
at 77 in a town near Moscow on May 19, 2017.  

A figure from last night's post appeared in this journal on that date.

… who reportedly died at 62 late on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011.

Related material — The "What As Is" link above, and a Sept. 14 post
quoting art critic Roberta Smith on a current exhibition —

"You grab your experiential richness where you find it."

— Roberta Smith, "Postwar Art Gets a Nervy Makeover"
     in the online New York Times  

For the other two brothers, see Feininger in this journal.

"My guess is you're looking for 
the least, little entity."

— Subtitle in "The Zero Theorem"
from the previous post.

Related material —

See as well some purely mathematical properties of a byte
discussed here on July 7, 2011.

A flashback from the previous post, "Leave a Space" —

From my RSS feed this evening —

Related material from the Web —

Len Wein reportedly died on Sunday.
An image from this  journal on Sunday —

" There was an Outer Limits episode called 'The Architects of Fear.' 
I thought: 'Wow. That’s a bit close to our story.' " — Alan Moore

— https://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/01/29/
len-wein-the-outer-limits-and-rewriting-watchmen/

See as well a Log24 post from the above Bleeding Cool  date,
2013-01-29, for more comic-book-related material.

The title is from a play, "Jumpers," by Tom Stoppard.

In memory of Abbott Lowell Cummings, who reportedly
died on May 29, 2017 —

See also Misery in this journal.

"For use of the Kummer surface in Buddhist metaphysics . . ."
is a phrase from a search in this journal for Nanavira.

See as well Buddhism in the previous post.

Tabletop fountain from the opening video of  Apple’s 2017
Worldwide Developer Conference —

Waterfall on the way to a Buddhist temple in “Listening” (2014 film) —

For some background, see Snow White Meets Apple (June 7, 2017)
and Enchanting (June 9, 2017).

See also Snow White in the previous post.

"… I miss the black-and-whiteness of the 20th century."

Vanity Fair  editor Graydon Carter  in The New York Times  today

A note for Carter —

"As the film progresses, the plot mirrors
the disorientation felt by the film's director."

— Wikipedia, Irma Vep

The director in question is one Olivier Assayas.

See also Assayas in this journal.

Related material — 

For example —

"Talk amongst yourselves."

In memory of weather buff Stephen Fybish,
who reportedly died at 80 on August 30.

The Eye of Harvey meets the Eye of Shangri-La —

Today's New York Times  on Fybish —

"Winter was his favorite season. He liked to taste the snow,
'since that’s one of the purer forms of water that we’re likely
to encounter here in the Big Apple,' he said."

— Sam Roberts