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Wednesday March 5, 2008
(Context: March 2-4)
For CENTRAL
Central Intelligence:
"God does not play dice."
— Paraphrase of a remark
by Albert Einstein
Another Nobel Prize winner,
Isaac Bashevis Singer—
"a God who speaks in deeds,
not in words, and whose
vocabulary is the Cosmos"
From "The Escapist:
The Reality of Fantasy Games"–
Dungeons & Dragons Dice
From today's New York Times:
A Kaddish for Gygax:
| "I was reading Durant's section on Plato, struggling to understand his theory of the ideal Forms that lay in inviolable perfection out beyond the phantasmagoria. (That was the first, and I think the last, time that I encountered that word.)" |
Related material:
For more on the word
"phantasmagoria," see
Log24 on Dec. 12, 2004
and on Sept. 23, 2006.
For phantasmagoria in action,
see Dungeons & Dragons
and Singer's (and others')
Jewish fiction.
For non-phantasmagoria,
see (for instance) the Elements
of Euclid, which culminates
in the construction of the
Platonic solids illustrated above.
See also Geometry for Jews.
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