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Readings for Sinatra's birthday

The title is from a post of last Thursday afternoon — Dec. 8, 2016.

An image from that post appeared here last year —

In related news ….

See also philosophy notes from Infinite Jest .

Some backstory —

"Only in the dance do I know how to tell
the parable of the highest things."
— Nietzsche

Continues.

"Claudia Card, an internationally known UW-Madison professor
and a leading expert in the philosophy of evil, died what she
considered a 'good' death…."

Card, 74, died… on Sept. 12."

— Samara Kalk Derby in Wisconsin State Journal
     on Columbus Day, 2015

See as well a remark by Lorrie Moore in this  journal
on the above death date.

See as well a meditation by Lorrie Moore quoted here
on the feast of St. Luke in 2003.

Related thoughts:  Log24 on Columbus Day, and Plan 9.

Knock, Knock, Knockin' —
A Scene from "Tomorrowland" —

See August 30, 2002, the day that "Tomorrowland"
actress Raffey Cassidy was born. On that date, this
journal contained the following quotation —

"He's a Mad Scientist and I'm his Beautiful Daughter."
— Deety in Heinlein's The Number of the Beast.

George Clooney and Raffey Cassidy in "Tomorrowland" —

Happy birthday to John Polkinghorne, an English
theoretical physicist, theologian, writer, and Anglican priest.