See as well Lester Crystal in Wikipedia.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Sunday, January 22, 2012
The Presbyterian Exorcist
(Backstory— Presbyterian in this journal)
Princeton University Press on a book it will publish in March—
Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier–"Don't disturb my circles"–words that seem to refer to two radically different concerns: that of the practical person living in the concrete world of reality, and that of the theoretician lost in a world of abstraction. Stories and theorems are, in a sense, the natural languages of these two worlds–stories representing the way we act and interact, and theorems giving us pure thought, distilled from the hustle and bustle of reality. Yet, though the voices of stories and theorems seem totally different, they share profound connections and similarities.
Exercise— Discuss the above paragraph's vulgarity.
Discuss also the more robust vulgarity of Marvel Entertainment…
Context— "Marvel" in this journal, and The Cosmic Cube.
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Sunday, January 26, 2014
A Midnight Exorcism
The summoning of the spirit of Bertrand Russell
yesterday by Peter J. Cameron at his weblog
suggests a review of this weblog’s posts of
Christmas Eve, December 24-25, 2013.
(Recall that Robert D. Carmichael, who, in a book
linked to at midnight last Christmas Eve discusses
some “magic” mathematical structures,
reportedly was trained as a Presbyterian minister.
See also The Presbyterian Exorcist.)
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Friday, April 13, 2007
Friday April 13, 2007
King Friday XIII
and friend:
and friend:
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For further details,
click here.
See also
The Presbyterian Exorcist.
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Sunday, November 5, 2006
Sunday November 5, 2006
Grail:
The Hermeneutics
of Chance
The Hermeneutics
of Chance
“… as Genevieve W. Foster has shown in her Jungian analysis, the eyes, the rose, and the star are equivalent to the ‘Grail’ of The Waste Land.”
— Grover Smith, T.S. Eliot’s Poetry and Plays: A Study in Sources and Meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956
The Grail also appears in legend as a stone–
From a Nov. 6, 2006, entry in the New Zealand weblog Arcadian Functor:
“Many modern Grail stories have a root in the early romances of von Eschenbach….
They live from a Stone whose essence is most pure. If you have never heard of it I shall name it for you here. It is called Lapsit exillis.
A search on “lapsit exillis” leads to “Cubic Stones from the Sky“…
These stones are often seen as the Holy Grail….
For 804, see
8/04 —
The Presbyterian Exorcist
(in part a tribute to
Wallace Stevens).
8/04 —
The Presbyterian Exorcist
(in part a tribute to
Wallace Stevens).
For 008 and a
“cubic stone,”
see
Christmas 2005.
A poetic connection between the star
of “The Hollow Men” and Christmas
is furnished by the remarks of
Wallace Stevens linked to in
the previous entry from
the word “information.”
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Monday, September 18, 2006
Monday September 18, 2006
Movie Date
continued…
continued…
Taking Christ to the Movies,
by Anna Megill, Princeton ’06
Related material:
“Prepare for the Weirdness.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
(see entry of Sept. 17,
At Midnight),
and
NBC’s “Crazy Christians” Show
(or, “Taking Christ to Studio 60“)
10 PM ET tonight on NBC.
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Friday, August 4, 2006
Friday August 4, 2006
The Presbyterian Exorcist
In memory of
Charles W. Dunn, Harvard Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures Emeritus, who died July 24, 2006, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston at the age of 90. Dunn was master of Quincy House from 1966 to 1981.
“‘He brought a taste of Scotland to the House, initiating an annual rite of exorcism in September to cleanse the place of evil spirits, during which a Scots bagpiper led a march of residents around the courtyard and Charles intoned an incantation while waving a large baton, banishing ghosts and other harbingers of ill will. His leadership was at its best during magnificent evenings in the Master’s lodging when he taught guests Scottish country dances. Students were fond of him, and he of them.’
Born in Arbuthnott, Scotland, the son of a Presbyterian minister, Dunn began his schooling in Aberdeen and Edinburgh….”
— Harvard University Gazette online, Aug. 2, 2006
Related material:
In Memory of Wallace Stevens,
Presbyterian Saint
(also from Aug. 2, 2006),
and Deaconess.
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