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The title refers to Frederick Seidel and
to a post of April 29, "At the Still Point."

Hoisting the Colours —

"I now know that she bursts into laughter when reading Dostoyevsky,
and that she has a weird connection with a retired mathematician."

— Ann Cathrin Andersen in Brygg Magazine on artist Josefine Lyche, 
    December 9, 2017

"I used her, she used me, but neither one cared." — Bob Seger

From Wikipedia —

"Emily Eden … a hardened New York City homicide detective,
goes undercover to investigate the murder of a Hasidic 
diamond-cutter."

Midrash — See "Diamond + Dust + Glitter."

The sequel to Another Manic Monday and The Abacus Conundrum —

You'll glitter and gleam so
Make somebody dream so that
Some day he may buy you a ring, ringa-linga
I've heard that's where it leads…

Related material — Janet's Tea Party

For Tom Hanks

and Kristin Davis

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Interpretations

7/23/09 — Artistic Vision

7/21/09 — The Lotus

"And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,
The surface glittered out of heart of light"

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Background

Sunday night, Tuesday morning and afternoon

Continued from May 18, 2010.

Previous logo for the New York Times  feature "The Stone"—

Today's new logo, appearing retroactively—

Comparison—

From the October 3 "The Stone," Hegel on Wall Street—

The “Phenomenology” is a philosophical portrait gallery that presents depictions, one after another, of different, fundamental ways in which individuals and societies have understood themselves.  Each self-understanding has two parts: an account of how a particular kind of self understands itself and, then, an account of the world that the self considers its natural counterpart.  Hegel narrates how each formation of self and world collapses because of a mismatch between self-conception and how that self conceives of the larger world.  Hegel thinks we can see how history has been driven by misshapen forms of life in which the self-understanding of agents and the worldly practices they participate in fail to correspond.  With great drama, he claims that his narrative is a “highway of despair.”

— J.M. Bernstein of the New School for Social Research

A two-part self-understanding that is not  from Hegel—

1. An account of how a particular kind of self understands itself:

2. An account of the world that the self considers its natural counterpart:

” ‘I know what it is you last saw,’ she said; ‘for that is also in my mind. Do not be afraid! But do not think that only by singing amid the trees, nor even by the slender arrows of elvenbows, is this land of Lothlórien maintained and defended against the Enemy. I say to you, Frodo, that even as I speak to you, I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all his mind that concerns the Elves. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought. But still the door is closed!’
      She lifted up her white arms, and spread out her hands towards the East in a gesture of rejection and denial. Eärendil, the Evening Star, most beloved of the Elves, shone clear above. So bright was it that the figure of the Elven-lady cast a dim shadow on the ground. Its ray glanced upon a ring about her finger; it glittered like polished gold overlaid with silver light, and a white stone in it twinkled as if the Even-star had come to rest upon her hand. Frodo gazed at the ring with awe; for suddenly it seemed to him that he understood.
      ‘Yes,’ she said, divining his thought, ‘it is not permitted to speak of it, and Elrond could not do so. But it cannot be hidden from the Ring-Bearer, and one who has seen the Eye. Verily it is in the land of Lórien upon the finger of Galadriel that one of the Three remains. This is Nenya, the Ring of Adamant, and I am its keeper.’ ”

— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings