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The 4×4 square may also be called the Galois Tesseract .
By analogy, the 4x4x4 cube may be called the Galois Hexeract .

"Think outside the tesseract." 

"Where there used to be a pinnacle, there’s now a crater."

— Bret Stephens in The New York Times  yesterday on Harvard.

Related entertainment —

Doctor Strange on Mount Everest —

For a crater, see a search in this  journal for Asteroid.

Rex Reed yesterday —

"Tilda Swinton is Zelda, the undertaker who worships a gold statue
of Buddha and collects samurai swords. She seems to know
what’s going on, but she’s too busy acting weird to tell." 

Al Gore on May 29 —

“We have to restore the role of reason and logic and rational debate,”
Gore said. “Every night on the news is like a nature hike through the
Book of Revelation.” — Harvard Gazette  reporting Class Day 2019

Doctor Strange on Mount Everest —

Continued from "Religion at Harvard,"  May 7, 2010 —

Aaron Diaz at Dresden Codak

"The warnings come after  the spells." — Doctor Strange

Review of "Criminal," a recent Tommy Lee Jones film:

"The only problem is that the procedure requires
a certain type of mind, the mind of a psychopath."

Skip Hollandsworth in Texas Monthly, Feb. 2006,
discussing an interview wtih Texas actor Jones, mentions …

"Jones’ strangely mesmerizing performance as
a vicious psychopath who hijacks a battleship."

A sample of that performance suitable for Manic Monday —

"You have to reconsider your entire philosophy."

— Tommy Lee Jones in "Under Siege"

The New York Times Book Review  yesterday advertised 
such a reconsideration, for sale by a Smith College Buddhist —

(Click image to enlarge.)

For your consideration —

"And there’s a lot of humor in the collision between Easter [sic ]
mysticism and Western scientific, sort of logical binary."

— Benedict Cumberbatch on his new film "Doctor Strange."

Lead-balloon humor:

"Funny, you don't look  Buddhist."

Jay L. Garfield