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Monday, February 13, 2023

The Adelson Shadow

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:45 am

Related search results —

From a different Adelson, in a Log24 post from 2003

Related geometric entertainment —

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Spheres of Influence

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:01 pm

For the Adelson* Sphere —

* Sheldon, not Merv (TV producer) or Edward.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Wednesday April 9, 2008

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:15 am
A Yahrzeit for Baghdad

From Google News at
about 5:55 AM ET today:

Google News, about 5:55 AM ET 4/09/08--Curfew Marks Fall of Baghdad

Log24 five years ago:

Picture of a pedestal, rather like that which formerly  displayed the ruler of  Baghdad

Click to enlarge.

“When smashing monuments,
save the pedestals; they always
come in handy.”

Stanislaw J. Lec    

Wednesday, April 9, 2003

Wednesday April 9, 2003

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:00 pm

The Poet as Prophet

In honor of Wallace Stevens, quoted in
yesterday’s entry of 3:07 PM EDT:


April 8, 3:07 PM EDT


April 9, 10:50 AM EDT

Tuesday, April 8, 2003

Tuesday April 8, 2003

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:07 pm

Death's Dream Kingdom

April 7, 2003, Baghdad – A US tank blew a huge statue of President Saddam Hussein off its pedestal in central Baghdad on Monday with a single shell, a US officer said…. "One shot, one kill."

"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals; they always come in handy."

Stanislaw J. Lec 

"In death's dream kingdom….

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow"

— T. S. Eliot, Harvard 1910, The Hollow Men

"A light check in the shadow
is the same gray as
a dark check outside the shadow."

— Edward H. Adelson, Yale 1974, Illusions and Demos

"point A / In a perspective that begins again / At B"

— Wallace Stevens, Harvard 1901, "The Rock"

See also

Shine On, Hermann Weyl.

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