The University of Ghent animation in the previous post suggests
a check of the author's other pages. One such offering:
For the Church of Synchronology (and Halloween season) —
One of the April 25, 2015, posts now tagged Contra Faustus:
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Matrix Theory: Contra Faustus
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Saturday, April 25, 2015
Faustian Merry-Go-Round
Thanks to David Lavery for the following:
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"Voilà! Stevens has managed to create out of nothing a palpable imaginative space, an interiority without material dimensions, replete with its own achieved and accomplished music. And in truth, in a world of Heisenbergian uncertainties and shifting star masses, it may be enough for the dizzying, ever-shifting merry-go-round of the Faustian mind simply to slow down and let itself come to rest, at least for the moment." — Paul Mariani, "God and the Imagination," Aug. 10, 1996 |
http://imagejournal.org/page/journal/articles/issue-18/mariani-essays
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Ghosts and Shadows
For Poetry Month
From the home page of Alexandre Borovik:
Book in progress: Shadows of the Truth
This book (to be published soon) can be viewed
as a sequel to Mathematics under the Microscope ,
but with focus shifted on mathematics as it was
experienced by children (well, by children who
became mathematicians). The cover is designed
by Edmund Harriss.
See also Harriss's weblog post of Dec. 27, 2008, on the death
of Harold Pinter: "The Search for the Truth Can Never Stop."
This suggests a review of my own post of Dec. 3, 2012,
"The Revisiting." A figure from that post:
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A Matrix for Corliss
See Richard Corliss's 1999 review of "The Matrix," "Popular Metaphysics."
See as well the previous Log 24 post and the following publisher's
book description —
Harvard Heart of Gold by Dustin Aguilar
You may be a storybook character after all!!!
This philosophic, fantastical journey is a new-fangled fairy-tale
where fun and unusual happenings are all too common, and
you—the reader—become a character just like Harvard or Kansas
and are subject to the all-knowing, all-powerful, author of the story.
This daring piece tests the bounds of reality and subtly suggests
that you should question everything you know —
While most people in this story believe they are real-life, walking
talking humans, a small, somewhat violent sect of society has
realized they are actually part of a book. They lash out and
demand that the story have a happy ending, and they'll whomever
they have to. [Sic] An enormous battle erupts catching Harvard
and Kansas trapped in the middle forced to rely on their cunning
and a little help from an extra-large talking tarantula to save the day.
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