"Claudia Card, an internationally known UW-Madison professor
and a leading expert in the philosophy of evil, died what she
considered a 'good' death…."
Card, 74, died… on Sept. 12."
— Samara Kalk Derby in Wisconsin State Journal
on Columbus Day, 2015
See as well a remark by Lorrie Moore in this journal
on the above death date.
Courtesy of Mira Sorvino.
Enter Madison :
From “Intruders,” BBC America, Season 1, Episode 2, at 1:07 of 43:31.
“You sure know how to show a girl a good time.“
* The title is a reference to a Wisconsin-related Halloween post.
Harald S. Naess, a professor retired from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, where he was the local authority on Norway,
reportedly died Sunday in Kristiansand, Norway, where he grew up.
He was 91. His academic specialty was the works and letters of
Knut Hamsun.
See posts from the date of Naess's death now tagged Bewitchment.
See also a Log24 post that mentions Kristiansand.
See a University of Wisconsin obituary for Schneider,
a leading expert on linear algebra who reportedly died
at 87 on Tuesday, October 28, 2014.
Some background on linear algebra and “magic” squares:
tonight’s 3 AM (ET) post and a search in this
journal for Knight, Death, and the Devil.
Click image to enlarge.
Continued from previous post —
For what it's worth…
A birth and a death, each on the Feast of St. Patrick
"Donald Frederick Hornig was born on March 17, 1920, in Milwaukee
and attended Harvard, earning his undergraduate degree there
in 1940 and his Ph.D. in 1943, both in chemistry. His dissertation
was titled 'An Investigation of the Shock Wave Produced by an Explosion'…."
— "Donald Hornig, Last to See First A-Bomb, Dies at 92,"
New York Times print version today (p. A20, New York edition)
A death elsewhere in Wisconsin 92 years later, on March 17, 2012—
Tom Conoboy on James Purdy’s novel Malcolm:
“Life, Purdy is telling us, is meaningless. Existence is absurd. It consists of events and happenings, all unavoidable, all simultaneously significant and meaningless. They touch you, wound even, ultimately kill, yet somehow existence appears to obtain in a bubble outside of the self. As Thomas M. Lorch describes it, ‘the novel portays humanity revolving about an abyss.'[1] What is real is not real, and what is not real becomes real. Malcolm describes himself as a ‘cypher’ and, in the end, his death affects no-one, least of all him.
Yet, through this, Purdy presents us with the final, and greatest, paradox. In presenting us with nothingness, and in deliberately describing the action in such bland and emotionless language, Purdy actually creates a sense of loss: there is nothing to lose, he is telling us, and yet we feel the loss greatly. What he does is to create a world of genuine nihilism, where nobody communicates, nobody connects, so that we can, in negative, imagine what a world in harmony might be like.”
[1] Thomas M. Lorch, “Purdy’s Malcolm: A Unique Vision of Radical Emptiness.” Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Summer, 1965), p. 212.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
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Exhibit C:
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Log24.net, Thursday, Soul and “In the fullness of time, |
Click on pictures for details.
The Fullness of Time
“In the fullness of time,
educated people will believe
there is no soul
independent of the body,
and hence no life after death.”
— Francis Crick
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PARAPHRASE OF THE PROSE after Walter Benjamin You live alone in — Gershom Scholem, |
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