From a post of April 17, 2025 —
Some may interpret this as a chessboard, with the white bishops on
their home squares 39 and 36 and the black bishops on 33 and 30.
"I like to fold my magic carpet, after use,
in such a way as to superimpose
one part of the pattern upon another."
– Vladimir Nabokov in Speak, Memory
Four diamonds in a square and four squares in a diamond.
Nietzsche on Heraclitus —
The above date from September 2019 suggests a review of that month.
From tonight's NY Times obituaries for musician Nino Tempo
and for illustrator Robert E. McGinnis . . .
Tempo appeared, uncredited, in a Breakfast at Tiffany's bar scene
(above, cropped to emphasize Hepburn).
La Jolla, March 28, 2025 —
A rather more abstract table —
"One wild rhapsody a fake for another."
– Wallace Stevens, "Arrival at the Waldorf," in Parts of a World (1942)
"Camelot is an illusion.
That doesn't matter, according to Catherine.
Camelot is an artificial construction, a public perception.
The things that matter are closer, deeper, self-generated, unkillable.
You've got to grow up to discover what those things are."
— Dan Zak, Washington Post movie review on Feb. 27, 2009. See also this journal on that date.
See as well a note on symmetry from Christmas Eve, 1981, and Verbum in this journal.
Some philosophical background— Derrida in the Garden.
Some historical background— A Very Private Woman and Noland.
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