“There exists a considerable literature
devoted to the Lo shu , much of it infected
with the kind of crypto-mystic twaddle
met with in Feng Shui.”
— Lee C. F. Sallows, Geometric Magic Squares ,
Dover Publications, 2013, page 121
Monday, August 17, 2026
Twaddle Waddle
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Sunday, November 9, 2014
Twaddle
“There exists a considerable literature
devoted to the Lo shu , much of it infected
with the kind of crypto-mystic twaddle
met with in Feng Shui.”
— Lee C. F. Sallows, Geometric Magic Squares ,
Dover Publications, 2013, page 121
Cf. Raiders of the Lost Theorem, Oct. 13, 2014.
See also tonight’s previous post and
“Feng Shui” in this journal.
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Saturday, November 14, 2020
To Think That It Happened on Prescott Street
Or: Geometric Logic Continued
Part I: Mystic Twaddle —
Part II: Meanwhile, on that same date —
Part III: Back at Harvard —
A link from the above post, infra —
“Some Harvard-related material — See Leary and 6 Prescott .”
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Friday, November 13, 2020
Raiders of the Lost Dorm Room
“That really is, really, I think, the Island of the Misfit Toys at that point.
You have crossed the Rubicon, you jumped on the crazy train and
you’re headed into the cliffs that guard the flat earth at that time, brother,”
said Rep. Denver Riggleman, a Republican congressman from Virginia,
in an interview."
— Jon Ward, political correspondent, Yahoo News , Nov. 12, 2020
The instinct for heaven had its counterpart:
The instinct for earth, for New Haven, for his room,
The gay tournamonde as of a single world
In which he is and as and is are one.
— Wallace Stevens, "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
Related material for comedians —
See as well Sallows in this journal.
“There exists a considerable literature
devoted to the Lo shu , much of it infected
with the kind of crypto-mystic twaddle
met with in Feng Shui.”
— Lee C. F. Sallows, Geometric Magic Squares ,
Dover Publications, 2013, page 121
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