See also Albee + Box in this journal.
Thursday, November 1, 2018
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" —
Saturday, July 8, 2017
Das Nichts … According to Albee
Saturday, September 17, 2016
A Box of Nothing
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Acronym
Saturday, September 17, 2016
A Box of Nothing
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For those who prefer comedy —
Thursday, May 14, 2020
For Mask Aficionados
Saturday, September 17, 2016
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For those who prefer comedy —
Other toys: Archimedes at Hiroshima and related posts.
Sunday, September 2, 2018
Monday, August 27, 2018
Children of the Six Sides
From the former date above —
Saturday, September 17, 2016 |
From the latter date above —
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Parametrization
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From March 2018 —
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Key to All Mythologies…
According to Octavio Paz and Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Poetry…. conceives of the text as a series of transparent strata
within which the various parts—the different verbal and semantic
currents— produce momentary configurations as they intertwine
or break apart, as they reflect each other or efface each other.
Poetry contemplates itself, fuses with itself, and obliterates itself
in the crystallizations of language. Apparitions, metamorphoses,
volatilizations, precipitations of presences. These configurations
are crystallized time…."
— Octavio Paz in The Monkey Grammarian (written in 1970)
"Strata" also seem to underlie the Lévi-Strauss "canonic formula" of myth
in its original 1955 context, described as that of permutation groups —
I do not recommend trying to make sense of the above "formula."
Related material —
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Composition
The late Edward Albee, as quoted today in The Telegraph :
“I tell my students, if you want to know something
about the structure of a play, listen to some Bach
preludes and fugues. I discovered classical music
when I was eight, nine, 10 years old, and I think
I learnt something about the nature of dramatic
structure from the nature of the music I was
listening to. I probably think of myself half the
time as a composer.”