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Saturday, March 23, 2024

Annals of Deceptive Fiction: Life of Pi

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:58 am

The image of a mathematician reading Life of Pi  in today's 8:36 AM ET post
suggests some further reading, not  about a fictional tiger —

As for the tiger . . .

"Liars prosper."

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Spacek’s File*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:00 am

From a search in this journal for Spacek

"Honesty's the best policy."
— Miguel de Cervantes

"Liars prosper."
— Anonymous

— Epigraphs to On Writing:
A Memoir of the Craft
,
by Stephen King

Lavender Blue,
Dilly, Dilly,
Lavender Green…
Image-- Spacek as Carrie

* A title suggested by the previous post.

Friday, April 16, 2010

The Craft, continued

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:22 pm

Image--Movie poster for 'The Craft'

"Honesty's the best policy."
— Miguel de Cervantes   

"Liars prosper."
— Anonymous   

— Epigraphs to On Writing:
A Memoir of the Craft
,
by Stephen King

Lavender Blue,
Dilly, Dilly,
Lavender Green…
Image-- Spacek as Carrie

The cruelest month continues…

"…as Newton conceived it, the distinction between
the individualities of two particles is so marked that
it is impossible for them ever to coincide or for
either of them to alter the being of the other…."

"Waves interfere with each other because they are
interchangeable and thus not distinguishable;
two processes can coincide in space and time
but two substances cannot. Thus the wave
reveals a whole new possibility of identity…."

"The concept of a field is elusive."

— Peter Pesic, Seeing Double: Shared Identities
in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature
,
Chapter 6, "The Fields of Light"

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