The online New York Times today reports a March 14 death . . .
This journal on March 14 —
"Right through hell there is a path."
— Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
* See Hemingway Pilot Fish
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Obit for Pilot Fish*
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Minimalist Space
See the March 24 New York Times obituary of a former Venice Beach artist
who reportedly died at 83 in Manhattan on March 14.
Related material from this journal on March 14 — Modernist Testament.
Friday, March 14, 2025
Modernist Testament
This post is in opposition to the informative, but unfocused, survey
of academia by one Alma Steingart in her 2023 book Axiomatics.
The reported Axiomatics publication date — Jan. 17, 2023 — in this journal . . .
"Right through hell there is a path."
— Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
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Monday, September 11, 2023
Cool Kids’ Vocabulary… Edgelord!
Jill Lepore of Harvard in The New Yorker today —
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"In 2021, Elon Musk became the world’s richest man (no woman came close), and Time named him Person of the Year: 'This is the man who aspires to save our planet and get us a new one to inhabit: clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman, cad; a madcap hybrid of Thomas Edison, P. T. Barnum, Andrew Carnegie and Watchmen’s Doctor Manhattan, the brooding, blue-skinned man-god who invents electric cars and moves to Mars.' Right about when Time was preparing that giddy announcement, three women whose ovaries and uteruses were involved in passing down the madcap man-god’s genes were in the maternity ward of a hospital in Austin. Musk believes a declining birth rate is a threat to civilization and, with his trademark tirelessness, is doing his visionary edgelord best to ward off that threat." |
Some vocabulary background —
See also this journal on that date —
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Monday, May 8, 2017
New Pinterest Board
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The face at lower left above is that of an early Design edgelord.
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Sunday, June 25, 2023
Silent Backup from Cold Mountain: Quilt Blocks
The New York Times reports this evening that McReynolds died
on Friday, June 23, 2023.
See also Cold Mountain in this journal.
From Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier, 367-368:
"They consulted and twisted the pegs again
to make the dead man’s tuning…."
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Friday, June 23, 2023
Ashes to Ashes, Dustbin to Dustbin
In memory of Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick,
who reportedly died today at 99:
Related legal notice from Princeton —
The above copyright notice is from The Symbolic Quest,
by one Edward C. Whitmont (birth name: Weissberg).
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Thursday, June 22, 2023
Square Inch Lore
See a search in this journal
for the following image —
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Friday, February 17, 2023
An Urn for Harvard
In memory of a Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow
who reportedly died at 86 on December 20, 2022 —
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Monday, December 19, 2022
Mathematics and Narrative, Continued . . .
“Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln . . .”
Midrash from Philip Pullman . . .
"The 1929 Einstein-Carmichael Expedition"
I prefer the 1929 Emch-Carmichael expedition —
This is from . . .
“By far the most important structure in design theory
is the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24).”
— “Block Designs,” by Andries E. Brouwer
(Ch. 14 (pp. 693-746) of Handbook of Combinatorics,
Vol. I, MIT Press, 1995, edited by Ronald L. Graham,
Martin Grötschel, and László Lovász, Section 16 (p. 716))
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“Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln . . .”
“Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln . . .”