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Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Master Class
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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Master Class*
For James Joyce, author of Dubliners …
See the posts of the Feast of St. Francis, 2013,
and today's New York Times —
* A phrase used here before.
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
Master Class
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Master Class
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
Master Class
Wikipedia (links added)—
"Hubbard coined Dianetics from the Greek stems dia ,
meaning through, and nous , meaning mind."
"The snow kept falling on the world,
big white flakes like white gloves."
— Frederick Seidel, "House Master,"
poem in The New Yorker of Sept. 3, 2012
Detail of Aug. 30 illustration, with added arrow—
The part of the illustration at upper right is from a post of
Friday, July 13th, 2012, on the death of producer Richard Zanuck.
"Pay no attention to the shadow behind the curtain."
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Mr. Amoroso
"When Mr. Amoroso made the announcement about Yahoo!’s
new CEO, he said, The Board of Directors unanimously agreed
that Marissa’s unparalleled track record in technology, design,
and product execution makes her the right leader for Yahoo!
at this time of enormous opportunity.” — John Mattone yesterday
See as well Something in the Way She Moves, which links to
Master Class. Another amoroso story: Oja Kodar and Picasso
in Orson Welles's last completed film.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Something in the Way She Moves
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Elevation of the Host
The title is a reference to a scheduled SNL.
Related material:
Cooper Union Borg, Master Class, and…
See also today's noon post and The Sunshine Girls.
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Snow Dance
The Snow White dance from last Nov. 14
features an ad that was originally embedded
in an American Mathematical Society Notices
review describing three books of vulgarized
mathematics. These books all use "great
equations" as a framing device.
This literary strategy leads to a more abstract
snow dance. See the ballet blanc in this journal
on Balanchine's birthday (old style) in 2003.
That dance involves equation (C) below.
Recall that in a unit ring ,
"0" denotes the additive identity,
"1" the multiplicative identity, and "-1" the
additive inverse of the multiplicative identity.
Three classic equations:
(A) 1 + 1 = 2 (Characteristic 0, ordinary arithmetic)
(B) 1 + 1 = 0 (Characteristic 2 arithmetic, in which 2 = 0)
(C) 1 + 1 = -1 (Characteristic 3 arithmetic, in which 2 = -1)
Cases (B) and (C), in which the characteristic is prime,
occur in Galois geometry.
For a more elaborate snow dance, see Master Class.
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Columbus Day Dream
"… At the hour of vespers
in a sudden blinding snow,
they entered the harbor…."
— Jorie Graham,
"The Dream of the Unified Field"
Other snow dreams—
Master Class and
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Sunday, August 8, 2004
Sunday August 8, 2004
Quartet
An illustration from July 26,
Jung’s birthday and the date
of Alexander Hammid’s death:
of the Self:  Four Quartets: “… history is a pattern |
Alexander |
From today’s
|
lexander Hammid, a filmmaker whose 
“… legend has it, supported by Casals himself, that he was conceived when Brahms began his B-flat Major Quartet, of which Casals owned the original manuscript, and that he was born when Brahms completed its composition.”
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