Log24

A literary reference suggested by the previous post and by
today's 2 AM post "Show" —

See also Snowflake in this  journal.

A scholium on the previous post, "Mother Ship Meets Mother Church" —

"Consider Saint Hedwig of Silesia (1174–1243), for example,
who is elegantly depicted in this catalogue, striking a pose
with her prayer book, rosary, and Virgin and child statue
(a reminder of the legitimacy of her sex), along with boots
slung over her elbow so she could walk barefoot like
the apostles. Between miracles, she was also known to 
supervise con­struction of new convents. Hedwig is but
a snowflake on the iceberg  of the extra­ordinary role of
actual women in the Middle Ages, to which more evidence
is added continually thanks the Feminae database."

— From "Wonder Women," by Matthew J. Milliner

Made-up quote from an imaginary celebrity 
in today's online New York Times —

"Lighten up and enjoy the act, snowflake."

Related material —

Ending Credits, a Log24 post of Jan. 26, 2015.

Don't forget the apple.

From "A Piece of the Storm,"
by the late poet Mark Strand —

"A snowflake, a blizzard of one…."

From a search for "snowflake" in this journal —

See also the January 13  death of a mathematician,
graph theorist Ralph Faudree of the University of Memphis.

Two hymns that may or may not be relevant:

Walking in Memphis and Come Falda di Neve,
the song that plays over the ending credits of
Exorcist III —

†

Those who prefer more-secular music may consult
Princeton Requiem, a post from the day of Faudree's death.