The previous post, Tetrahedron Dance, suggests a review of . . .
A figure from St. Patrick's Day 2004 that might
represent a domed roof …
Inscribed Carpenter's Square:
In Latin, NORMA
… and a cinematic "Fire Temple" from 2019 —
In related news . . .
Related background: "e. e. cummings" in this journal.
"Status: Defunct" …
As is now its owner, who reportedly
died at 80 on Sunday, October 15, 2017.
In memoriam —
Excerpts from Log24 posts on Sunday night
and yesterday evening —
.
" … listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go"
— e. e. cummings
Some literary background —
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"At the point of convergence by Octavio Paz, translated by Helen Lane
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In memory of Paul Sussman, author of archaeological
mystery novels about Egypt—
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"… the sacred symbols of the cosmic elements — Thrice-Great Hermes: Excerpts and Fragments , |
Sussman's last novel, not yet published, was
Sussman, 45, reportedly died suddenly on May 31, 2012.
A perhaps relevant thought—
"A world of made
is not a world of born— pity poor flesh
and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical
ultraomnipotence."
– e. e. cummings, 1944
"A world of made
is not a world of born— pity poor flesh
and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical
ultraomnipotence."
— e. e. cummings, 1944
For one such specimen, see The Matrix of Abraham—
a 5×5 square that is hypermagical… indeed, diabolical.
Related material on the algebra and geometry underlying some smaller structures
that have also, unfortunately, become associated with the word "magic"—
" … listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go"
— e. e. cummings
Happy birthday, e. e.
Opening of the Graves
Revelation 20:12
I saw the dead,
the great and the small,
standing before the throne,
and they opened books.
The Dead —
The Great:
On January 4, 1965,
T. S. Eliot
died.
The Small:
On January 4, 1991,
T. S. Matthews,
author of
Great Tom:
Notes Towards the Definition
of T. S. Eliot,
died.
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From the website of the Redwood Library and Athenæum, Newport, Rhode Island:
The Library of a 20th-Century Redwood is the delighted recipient of part of the personal library of Thomas Stanley Matthews ([Jan. 16] 1901- [Jan. 4] 1991), a shareholder from 1947 until his death and a generous benefactor. Matthews, who summered in Middletown for over 50 years, began his journalism career with The New Republic, where he served as assistant editor between 1925 and 1927 and as an associate editor between 1927 and 1929. He was then hired as books editor at Time, where over the next 20 years he held the positions of assistant managing editor, executive editor, and managing editor. In 1949 he succeeded the magazine's founder, Henry Luce, as editor. Upon retiring in 1953, he moved to England. Matthews edited The Selected Letters of Charles Lamb (1956), for which he wrote the introduction. He published two volumes of memoirs, Name and Address: An Autobiography (1960) and Jacks or Better (1977; published in England as Under the Influence); two volumes of poetry; The Sugar Pill: An Essay on Newspapers (1957); O My America! Notes on a Trip (1962); Great Tom: Notes Towards the Definition of T. S. Eliot (1974); a volume of character sketches, Angels Unawares: Twentieth-Century Portraits (1985); and eight volumes of aphorisms, witticisms, and verse. Shortly before his death, Matthews expressed the desire that all his books be left to Redwood Library…. [including] books by Seamus Heaney, Louis MacNeice, Ezra Pound, Laura Riding, Edward Arlington Robinson, W. H. Auden, e. e. cummings, and Robert Graves. Of particular interest are the 16 volumes by Graves, most of them autographed by the author…. |
— Cole Porter, 1932
n. itinerant seller or giver of books,
especially religious literature.
Now you has jazz.
— Cole Porter, lyric for "High Society,"
set in Newport, Rhode Island, 1956
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