Saturday, June 27, 2020
Monday, June 15, 2020
Blues for Mr. Caplan
“Mr. Caplan, an essayist, professor, lecturer and consultant on design,
died on June 4 in his apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
He was 95.” — Penelope Green in The New York Times today.
This journal on that date —
Related cultural icons —
” James, Alec. Alec, James.”
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Sunday, June 14, 2020
PC Language Game
The above Nat Friedman is not to be confused with
the Nat Friedman of “Hyperseeing,” discussed here June 12.
“One game is real and one’s a metaphor.
Untold times this wisdom’s come too late.
Battle of White has raged on endlessly.
Everywhere Black will strive to seal his fate.
Continue a search for thirty-three and three.
Veiled forever is the secret door.”
— Katherine Neville, aka Cat Velis, in The Eight,
Ballantine Books, January 1989, page 140
Related literary remarks —
The Old Man and the Bull
The Old Man and the Topic
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Friday, July 20, 2018
Geometry for Jews
Click image to enlarge —
A portrait from the home page of David Eppstein,
a professor at the University of California, Irvine
“… how can an image with 8 points and 8 lines
possibly represent a space with 7 points and 7 lines???“
— David Eppstein, 21 December 2015
See ” Projective spaces as ‘collapsed vector spaces,’ ”
page 203 in Geometry and Symmetry by Paul B. Yale,
published by Holden-Day in 1968.
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