“For me it is a sign that we have fundamentally different
conceptions of the work of the intelligence services.”
— Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel in
theguardian.com, Saturday, 12 July 2014, 14.32 EDT
Another sort of service, thanks to Dan Brown and Tom Hanks:
Friday, July 11, 2014 |
“…geometrically organized, with the parts labeled”
— Ursula K. Le Guin on what she calls “the Euclidean utopia”
“There is such a thing as a tesseract.”
Related material– Diamond Theory, 1937
“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”
From a document linked to here on April 30, Walpurgisnacht–
“…the Golden Age, or Dream Time, is remote only from the rational mind. It is not accessible to euclidean reason….”
“The utopia of the Grand Inquisitor ‘is the product of “the euclidean mind” (a phrase Dostoyevsky often used)….'”
“The purer, the more euclidean the reason that builds a utopia, the greater is its self-destructive capacity. I submit that our lack of faith in the benevolence of reason as the controlling power is well founded. We must test and trust our reason, but to have faith in it is to elevate it to godhead.”
“Utopia has been euclidean, it has been European, and it has been masculine. I am trying to suggest, in an evasive, distrustful, untrustworthy fashion, and as obscurely as I can, that our final loss of faith in that radiant sandcastle may enable our eyes to adjust to a dimmer light and in it perceive another kind of utopia.”
“You will recall that the quality of static perfection is an essential element of the non-inhabitability of the euclidean utopia….”
“The euclidean utopia is mapped; it is geometrically organized, with the parts labeled….”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be”
San Francisco Chronicle today—
“A May Day rally in Santa Cruz erupted into chaos Saturday night….”
“Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest,
and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?”
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