For the Harvard Psychedelics Club
Saturday, December 24, 2022
Xmas with Moriarty: Big Little Ideas
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Plan 9 From Moriarty
Some related mathematical windmills —
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For the eight-limbed star at the top of the quaternion array She drew from her handbag a pale grey gleaming implement that looked by quick turns to me like a knife, a gun, a slim sceptre, and a delicate branding iron—especially when its tip sprouted an eight-limbed star of silver wire. “The test?” I faltered, staring at the thing. “Yes, to determine whether you can live in the fourth dimension or only die in it.” — Fritz Leiber, short story, 1959 |
See as well . . .
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Sunday, November 4, 2018
Dead Poet
The New York Times today on a poet, Judith Kazantzis,
"who died on Sept. 18 at 78" —
"Judith’s oldest sister is Antonia Fraser, the biographer
and novelist and widow of the playwright Harold Pinter."
"Her [Judith’s] death was confirmed by Andy Croft, who runs
Smokestack Books, the publisher of 'Sister Intervention' [sic* ]
(2014), Ms. Kazantzis’ last collection of poetry. He did not
specify the cause or where she died."
Notable lines from that book's poem "In the Garden" —
Two trees of life, not in the woods,
but in the garden.
See also the post "Death Day" in this journal on Sept. 18.
* The title is actually "Sister Invention ."
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Sunday, October 28, 2018
Friday, October 26, 2018
Pathmark Meets Hallmark
From earlier posts now tagged Pathmark —
From earlier posts tagged Black Diamond —
A source for the above Ellison quote —
See also A Christmas Carol.
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