A check of the New York Times 's version of the 
philosophers' stone yields…

"And as Du Bois, a student of Hegel’s, reminds us,
the one who is in the dominated position is aware
of the perspective of the master: She is conscious
of herself as being seen by the other. It is this
double-consciousness that we must learn to understand."

— Seyla Benhabib, quoted by the Times
     on Oct. 29, 2015, 3:30 AM ET

A check of Benhabib's words yields…

"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness,
this sense of always looking at one's self through
the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape
of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."

— W. E. B. Du Bois

That, for example, looks on Harvard in amused contempt and pity…

See Con Vocation.

(Continued from Monday afternoon's "Con Vocation" link.)

From The Harvard Crimson  this morning —

"David Black, author and scholar-in-residence
at Kirkland House, entertained a small group
of attendees with a reading of his latest novel
Fast Shuffle  Monday evening in Kirkland’s
Senior Common Room."

From a  Kirkus Reviews  review of Fast Shuffle  last July —

" 'My heritage is of Jewish socialists on one side,' 
Black explains, 'and of Jewish gangsters on the
other side. My great aunt was Polly Adler [the
(in)famous Manhattan madam of the '20s, '30s
and early '40s whose girls entertained some of
the guys from the Algonquin roundtable]. It's a
mix of idealism and gritty practicality. I delight
in both.' "

Non-entertainment from the publication date of Fast Shuffle :

Cool Mystery:

Detective Cruz enters Planck's Constant Café in "The Big Bang."

The above images are from a Log24 post of October 5, 2011.

Related material for fans of recreational math and Manil Suri —

A book that Amazon.com says was published on that same date —
October 5, 2011 —

Space, Time and Matter 

by Ashay Dharwadker (Author), Vinay Dharwadker  (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 98 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing
                     Platform (October 5, 2011)
• Language: English
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,605,448 in Books 

See as well …

Con Vocation  (Log24, Sept. 2, 2014).

This morning’s previous post may be regarded as an example of
the Harvard Business School’s “case system.”

A search for this topic yields another example:

Harvard professor Peter Galison discusses the case system’s
origin at Harvard Law School in his book Image and Logic:
A Material Culture of Microphysics  —

No Image, No Logic

(Click to enlarge.)