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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Midnight in Bakhtin
A followup to last midnight's Black Hole Revisited .
See also Victor Turner on liminality, together with Paul Goodman
on public squares, in a post of May 8, 2007.
Related material: Midnight in Dostoevsky (St. Andrew's Day, 2009).
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Midnight in Pynchon*
"It is almost as though Pynchon wishes to
repeat the grand gesture of Joyce’s Ulysses…."
— Vladimir Tasic on Pynchon's Against the Day
Related material:
Tasic's Mathematics and the Roots of Postmodern Thought
and Michael Harris's "'Why Mathematics?' You Might Ask"
*See also Occupy Galois Space and Midnight in Dostoevsky.
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Midnight in Dostoevsky
"But Thou knewest not, it seems, that no sooner would man reject
miracle than he would reject God likewise, for he seeketh less
God than 'a sign' from Him." —The Grand Inquisitor
Update of 1:44 AM—
Seek and Ye Shall Find …
(Click images for larger context)
The Holy Office —
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
“A Structured Sacrifice”
Today's homily– from The New York Times–
Related art–
Black Friday,
Midnight in Dostoevsky, and
A Cross for the Goat Men.
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