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Saturday, May 31, 2025

The Pleasures of the Text:  Scholium

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Scholium —

From The Hawkline Monster, by Richard Brautigan:

“What are we going to do now?” Susan Hawkline said,
surveying the lake that had once been their house.
Cameron counted the diamonds in his hand. 
There were thirty-five diamonds and they were
all that was left of the Hawkline Monster.
“We’ll think of something,” Cameron said.

The Nobel Eye

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Friday, May 30, 2025

Skin in the Game

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Wednesday April 8, 2009

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Where Entertainment
Is God

"For every kind of vampire,
  there is a kind of cross."
  — Thomas Pynchon in     
    Gravity's Rainbow   

"Since 1963, when Pynchon's first novel, V., came out, the writer– widely considered America's most important novelist since World War II– has become an almost mythical figure, a kind of cross between the Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis's) and Caine in Kung Fu."

Nancy Jo Sales in the November 11, 1996, issue of New York Magazine

 

A Cross Between

(Click on images for their
  source in past entries.)

In a Nutshell:

 
"Plato's Ghost evokes Yeats's lament that any claim to worldly perfection inevitably is proven wrong by the philosopher's ghost…."

— Princeton University Press on Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics (by Jeremy Gray, September 2008)

"She's a brick house…"
 — Plato's Ghost according to   
Log24, April 2007 
 

"First of all, I'd like
to thank the Academy."
Remark attributed to Plato

 

Jerry Lewis Wins an Oscar at Last-- TIME magazine

 

 

David Carradine displays a yellow book-- the Princeton I Ching.

"Click on the Yellow Book."

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