From "The Osterman Weekend" (1983) —
Counting symmetries of the R. T. Curtis Omega:
An Illustration from Shakespeare's birthday —
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Friday, May 7, 2021
Types of Ambiguity
“Omega is as real as we need it to be.”
— Burt Lancaster in “The Osterman Weekend”
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Thursday, July 12, 2018
Kummerhenge Illustrated
“… the utterly real thing in writing is the only thing that counts…."
— Maxwell Perkins to Ernest Hemingway, Aug. 30, 1935
"Omega is as real as we need it to be."
— Burt Lancaster in "The Osterman Weekend"
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
The Omega Matrix
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Sunday, December 18, 2016
Manifest O
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Thursday, December 24, 2015
Sunday, January 11, 2015
The XYZ of Being
From a recent Gitterkrieg post:
"The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon,
The A B C of being…." — Wallace Stevens
See also the cover of the February 2015
Notices of the American Mathematical Society .
"Omega is as real as we need it to be."
— Burt Lancaster in The Osterman Weekend
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Sunday, November 23, 2014
Remarks on Reality
Wallace Stevens in "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
(1950) on "The Ruler of Reality" —
"Again, 'He has thought it out, he thinks it out,
As he has been and is and, with the Queen
Of Fact, lies at his ease beside the sea.'"
One such scene, from 1953 —
Another perspective, from "The Osterman Weekend" (1983) —
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Omega Post
In memory of radio personality Steve Post,
a link to some remarks on the date of his death.
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Monday, August 4, 2014
Bunch vs. Bunch
“This is a divorce case that was before us on an earlier occasion.”
Wild:
From the director of The Wild Bunch —
Brady:
From The New York Times —
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Sunday, August 3, 2014
Unplatonic Dialogue
Dialogue from “The Osterman Weekend”—
01:57:22 “Why did he make us try to believe Omega existed?”
01:57:25 ….
01:57:26 “The existence of Omega has not been disproved.
01:57:28 Don’t you understand that?
01:57:31 Omega is as real as we need it to be.”
See also Omega elsewhere in this journal.
Update of 9:15 PM ET —
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