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Update of 4:00 PM —
See also this journal on Sunday morning and
Bill Murray's "Razor's Edge."
Monday, November 28, 2016
Higgs Boson of the Sublime
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Monday, July 16, 2018
God and Man at Yale
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Saturday, December 7, 2019
Canonicity* Illustrated: The Offensive Tet
* “Canonicity” is a reference to the previous post.
See as well Tetrahedron vs. Square and Algebra for Schoolgirls.
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Friday, December 1, 2017
The Architect and the Matrix
In memory of Yale art historian Vincent Scully, who reportedly
died at 97 last night at his home in Lynchburg, Va., some remarks
from the firm of architect John Outram and from Scully —
Update from the morning of December 2 —
The above 3×3 figure is of course not unrelated to
the 4×4 figure in The Matrix for Quantum Mystics:
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See as well Tsimtsum in this journal.
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Monday, February 13, 2017
“The Echo in Plato’s Cave” Continues.
The previous post, "Colorful Tales," on the Nov. 28, 2016, death
of one Angus Fletcher, together with the remarks indexed above,
suggest a review from …
The archives of The New York Times —
"THE ANATOMY OF INFLUENCE
Literature as a Way of Life
By Harold Bloom
357 pp. Yale University Press. $32.50.
Sam Tanenhaus is the editor of the Book Review.
A version of this review appeared in print
on May 22, 2011, on Page BR1 of the
Sunday Book Review with the headline:
'An Uncommon Reader.'"
"By this time, Bloom had burrowed into a cave,
its lamplit forms and shapes merging into
an occult mythos scarcely intelligible
even to other scholars. 'Bloom had an idea,'
Christopher Ricks said; 'now the idea has him.'
Cynthia Ozick, meanwhile, called him an 'idol-maker.'
In contrast to Cleanth Brooks . . . ."
An illustration from "The Echo in Plato's Cave" linked to
in the previous post —
Judy Davis in the Marabar Caves
Cynthia Ozick on Bloom —
See also Dharwadker in the previous post and on the Higgs boson.
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Sunday, December 18, 2016
Sunday Dinner Crumbs
From posts now tagged “Memory-History-Geometry” —
“… even the dogs under the table
eat the children’s crumbs.” — Mark 7:28
From a 2015 post …
“… Kansas and Harvard officially met
as Kansas wrestled the unsuspecting Harvard
to the ground in a headlock.”
— Harvard Heart of Gold , by Dustin Aguilar,
quoted here on April 24, 2015
For the dogs under the table, a note from that same date —
See as well Tom Wolfe on manifestos
and “the creative spirit.”
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Monday, November 28, 2016
Interpenetration
Or: A Candle for Sunrise
Commentary —
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code is like staring into the sun.”
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Sunday, November 27, 2016
A Machine That Will Fit
Or: Notes for the Metaphysical Club
Northrop Frye on Wallace Stevens:
"He… stands in contrast to the the dualistic
approach of Eliot, who so often speaks of poetry
as though it were an emotional and sensational
soul looking for a 'correlative' skeleton of
thought to be provided by a philosopher, a
Cartesian ghost trying to find a machine that
will fit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson on "vacant and vain" knowledge:
"The new position of the advancing man has all
the powers of the old, yet has them all new. It
carries in its bosom all the energies of the past,
yet is itself an exhalation of the morning. I cast
away in this new moment all my once hoarded
knowledge, as vacant and vain."
Harold Bloom on Emerson:
"Emerson may not have invented the American
Sublime, yet he took eternal possession of it."
Wallace Stevens on the American Sublime:
"And the sublime comes down
To the spirit itself,
The spirit and space,
The empty spirit
In vacant space."
A founding member of the Metaphysical Club:
See also the eightfold cube.
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