The above title may serve as a private memorial for a Harvard
scholar of Communist China whose work Nixon found helpful.
Related reading:
A Log24 post from the scholar's reported date of death.
Friday, August 9, 2024
Title adapted from Wallace Stevens:
“Like Decorations in a Chinese Cemetery”
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“Like Decorations in a Chinese Cemetery”
“Like Decorations in a Chinese Cemetery”
Friday, August 11, 2023
Like Decorations for Strange Fruit
The title combines phrases from Wallace Stevens and Billie Holiday.
Illustration, from an image linked to in the previous post —
Related images . . .
See June 19th of this year.
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Monday, April 29, 2019
Like Decorations in a Cartoon Graveyard
(Continued.)
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
A death on the date of the above New Yorker piece — Oct. 15, 2018 —
See as well the Pac-Man-like figures in today's previous post
as well as the Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, post "History at Bellevue."
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Like Decorations in a Cartoon Graveyard
Two visions of happy neurons:
This post was suggested by a link in today's New York Times —
"Simon Denny, the New Zealand artist whose work incorporates
board games, intervenes by introducing his own pieces into an attic of
the late-18th-century Haus zum Kirschgarten, already filled with
'old historical dollhouses, board games, chess games' and the like …."
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Saturday, March 25, 2017
Like Decorations in a Cartoon Graveyard
… Continued from April 11, 2016, and from …
A tribute to Rothko suggested by the previous post —
For the idea of Rothko's obstacles, see Hexagram 39 in this journal.
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Monday, April 11, 2016
Like Decorations in a Cartoon Graveyard
From Sunday evening's In Memoriam post —
The "from Princeton" remark in the previous post came from
Princeton, but originated with a retired professor in Rochester,
NY, one Joseph Neisendorfer.
Another remark by Neisendorfer, from his weblog —
Those familiar with the chapter on Galois in the
Eric Temple Bell classic Men of Mathematics
will know that the words quoted above by
Neisendorfer are definitely not those of Albert Einstein.
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Saturday, November 28, 2020
To Thine Own Self Be Trieu
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Friday, July 13, 2018
Box
"When I was a kid living in the Long Island suburbs,
I sometimes got called a math genius. I didn’t think
the label was apt, but I didn’t mind it; being put in
the genius box came with some pretty good perks."
— "The Genius Box," March 16, 2018
From posts in this journal tagged "Black Diamond" —
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Monday, September 11, 2017
New Depth
A sentence from the New York Times Wire discussed in the previous post —
"Through characters like Wolverine and Swamp Thing,
he helped bring a new depth to his art form."
For Wolverine and Swamp Thing in posts related to a different
art form — geometry — see …
- Sunday School (July 6, 2014) and
- Like Decorations in a Cartoon Graveyard (March 25, 2017).
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