Some may prefer the Stargate version of a seventh symbol —
“Jackson has identified the seventh symbol.” — Stargate
Friday, June 7, 2024
A Symbol for the Seventh:
“As a Chinese jar . . . .” — T. S. Eliot
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“As a Chinese jar . . . .” — T. S. Eliot
“As a Chinese jar . . . .” — T. S. Eliot
Monday, November 20, 2023
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Black List
A search for "Max Black" in this journal yields some images
from a post of August 30, 2006 . . .
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"Jackson has identified the seventh symbol." |
The "Jackson" above is played by the young James Spader,
who in an older version currently stars in "The Blacklist."
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"… the memorable models of science are 'speculative instruments,' — Max Black in Models and Metaphors , Cornell U. Press, 1962 |
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Monday June 29, 2009
Sunday Egyptians
"And what is it
you're going to do?"
— Eddie Murphy as Pharaoh
See also
Reba at Heaven's Gate
and
The Seventh Symbol:
"Jackson has identified
the seventh symbol."
— Stargate
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Sunday, March 8, 2009
Sunday March 8, 2009
Transit Authority
In memory of
Stanley Kubrick
(overlooked in
yesterday's memorial)
| "For believers the day of death, and even more the day of martyrdom, is not the end of all; rather, it is the 'transit' towards immortal life. It is the day of definitive birth, in Latin, dies natalis." |
"'Wherever you come near
the human race, there's layers
and layers of nonsense,'
says the Stage Manager in
Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town.'"
— Today's sermon
from Frank Rich
For more layers, see
James A. Michener's
The Source.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Wednesday August 30, 2006
The Seventh Symbol:
A Multicultural Farewell
to a winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature,
the Egyptian author of
The Seventh Heaven:
Supernatural Stories —
"Jackson has identified
the seventh symbol."
— Stargate
Other versions of
the seventh symbol —
"… Max Black, the Cornell philosopher, and others have pointed out how 'perhaps every science must start with metaphor and end with algebra, and perhaps without the metaphor there would never have been any algebra' …."
— Max Black, Models and Metaphors, Cornell U. Press, 1962, page 242, as quoted in Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors, by Victor Witter Turner, Cornell U. Press, paperback, 1975, page 25