"The music was as formal as
Job's argument with God.
Her dance was God's reply."
Friday, September 9, 2022
At a Still Point
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Harry Potter and the Crown of Fire
Daniel Radcliffe in the recent film "The Lost City" —
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From the Log24 post "Fish Babel" —
The final page, 759, of the Harry Potter saga —
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
Working Backwards
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"I twisted my mind like a bright ribbon, folded it,
"All manner of thing shall be well |
See also some context for these quotations.
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
Working Backwards
"Warming to the question of what it means to read a poem backward…."
— Essayist in a New Yorker weblog on July 11, 2013
“Death itself would start working backwards.”
— Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia , 1950
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"I twisted my mind like a bright ribbon, folded it,
"All manner of thing shall be well |
See also some context for these quotations.
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Friday September 26, 2008
Christmas Knot
for T.S. Eliot’s birthday
for T.S. Eliot’s birthday
(Continued from Sept. 22–
“A Rose for Ecclesiastes.”)
From Kibler’s
“Variations on a Theme of
Heisenberg, Pauli, and Weyl,”
July 17, 2008:
“It is to be emphasized
that the 15 operators…
are underlaid by the geometry
of the generalized quadrangle
of order 2…. In this geometry,
the five sets… correspond to
a spread of this quadrangle,
i.e., to a set of 5 pairwise
skew lines….”
— Maurice R. Kibler,
July 17, 2008
For ways to visualize
this quadrangle,
see Inscapes.
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Related material
A remark of Heisenberg “… die Schönheit… [ist] die
richtige Übereinstimmung der Teile miteinander und mit dem Ganzen.” “Beauty is the proper conformity |
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Monday September 22, 2008
Gates of Hell
(continued from the birthday
this year of Pope Benedict XVI)
"'I took a course in modern poetry when I was back at the university,' he began. 'We read six authors– Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Crane, Stevens, and Gallinger– and on the last day of the semester, when the prof was feeling a little rhetorical, he said, "These six names are written on the century, and all the gates of criticism and Hell shall not prevail against them.''"
— "A Rose for Ecclesiastes,"
a 1963 story by Roger Zelazny
a 1963 story by Roger Zelazny
The last poet of the six is fictional.
The name "Zelazny" might be
subsituted for "Gallinger."
It won't happen, but
I wouldn't mind if it did.
The name "Zelazny" might be
subsituted for "Gallinger."
It won't happen, but
I wouldn't mind if it did.
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