. . . And what rough beast . . . . ?
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Monday, February 22, 2021
Design Theory
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For “the Supreme Fascist” (a phrase of Paul Erdős)
The above author reportedly died on August 22, 2009.
A check of that date in this journal yields . . .
A passage from the “Assumption” link target above, with a title
suggested by the preceding “Making Mathematics” piece —
Making Money: The Communist Connection
“He and his fellow monks were cut off from the rest of the world
during the second Sino-Japanese War, which lasted from 1937 to
1945. When hostilities ended, the monastery relocated to the
provincial capital of Chengdu, where the monks opened the
Institute of Chinese and Western Cultural Studies with a library
that eventually had 10,000 volumes.
Chengdu, the last stronghold of the Nationalist Party, was overrun
by Mao’s army on Christmas Day 1949. The Communists closed the
institute, confiscated the books and forced Winance and the other
monks to attend indoctrination sessions on Marxism.”
Another article by Wieschenberg might, to some, actually be worth $49 —
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Sunday, November 22, 2020
In Memory of . . .
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Friday, January 17, 2020
Design Theory
On a recently deceased professor emeritus of architecture
at Princeton —
“… Maxwell ‘established the school as a principal
center of design research, history and theory.’ ”
“This is not the Maxwell you’re looking for.”
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Monday, August 19, 2019
Gods and Giants
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Sunday, August 18, 2019
Structure at Pergamon
Some background for The Epstein Chronicles —
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“What modern painters — James J. Gibson, Leonardo, |
See also Robert Maxwell,
Frank Oppenheimer,
and the history of Leonardo .
Click the above Pergamon Press image
for Pergamon-related material.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Conceptual Coffee
A related scene, in memory of a jingle singer who died Sunday at 97:
Click for the Heavenly Coffee song.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Group Characters
“… this gentle little movie… is, after all, a character study– and in an alcoholic country singer named Bad Blake, we’ve got one hell of a character.”
And then there’s Baaad Blake–
Related material:
This journal on the president of
London’s Blake Society and
Wikipedia on the founder of
Pergamon Press
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