For art more closely related to the title "Alpha and Omega,"
see a different view of the above Hoyersten exhibition.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
“Omega is as real as we need it to be.”
— “The Osterman Weekend”
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— “The Osterman Weekend”
— “The Osterman Weekend”
Sunday, July 10, 2022
The Osterman/Brosterman Weekend
See Osterman and Brosterman.
Logline for Osterman Meets Brosterman! — See Super-8.
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
Monday, December 29, 2025
Working for the Weekend
AI giveth, and AI taketh away.
More in the spirit of Alpha than of Omega . . .
Images related to work I began in the 1970s, from
a 1960s design classic by Karl Gerstner.
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Sunday, May 6, 2018
The Osterman Omega
From "The Osterman Weekend" (1983) —
Counting symmetries of the R. T. Curtis Omega:
An Illustration from Shakespeare's birthday —
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Saturday, February 28, 2026
For Langer and Percy* — A February Omega
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Monday, May 24, 2021
For Doctor Manhattan
"Omega is as real as we need it to be." — The Osterman Weekend
See also related material in The New Yorker and the National Review .
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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, December 18, 2016
Manifest O
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Thursday, December 24, 2015
Saturday, August 22, 2015
It’s 10 PM…
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Sunday, May 24, 2015
Point Omega
“Am I still on?” — Ending line of The Osterman Weekend (1983)
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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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