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Monday, January 22, 2018

Hollywood Moment

Matt B. Roscoe and Joe Zephyrs, both of Missoula, Montana, authors of article on quilt block symmetries

A death on the date of the above symmetry chat,
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

'Love Story' director dies

An Hispanic Hollywood moment:

Ojo de Dios —

Click for related material.

For further Hispanic entertainment,
see Ben Affleck sing 
"Aquellos Ojos Verdes "
in "Hollywoodland."

Friday, April 25, 2014

Quilt Geometry

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:55 pm

or: The Dead Hand Shot

Library Thing book list: 'An Awkward Lie' and 'A Piece of Justice'

See also Tumbling Blocks Quilt and Springtime for Vishnu.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Sunday July 26, 2009

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:28 pm

Happy Birthday,
Inspector Tennison

'Prime Suspect'-- Helen Mirren as Inspector Tennison
(See entries of
November 13, 2006)

Library Thing book list: 'An Awkward Lie' and 'A Piece of Justice'

Related material
for Prospera:

  1. Jung's Collected Works
  2. St. Augustine's Day, 2006
    (as a gloss on the name
    "Summerfield" in
    A Piece of Justice and on
    Inspector Tennison's age today)
  3. Quilt Geometry

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Wednesday October 25, 2006

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 am

Conceit
at Harvard

conceit (See definition.)
“c.1374, from conceiven (see conceive). An Eng. formation based on deceit and receipt. Sense evolved from ‘something formed in the mind,’ to ‘fanciful or witty notion’ (1513), to ‘vanity’ (1605)….”

Online Eytmology Dictionary

“… there is some virtue in tracking cultural trends in terms of their relation to the classic Trinitarian framework of Christian thought.”

Description of lectures to be given Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week (on Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, respectively, and their relationship to “cultural trends”) at Harvard’s Memorial Church

I prefer more-classic trinitarian frameworks– for example,

 

the classic Pythagorean
trinity of 4, 3, and 5

 

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and the structural trinity
underlying
classic quilt patterns:

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Click on pictures for further details.

These mathematical trinities are
conceits in the sense of concepts
or notions; examples of the third
kind of conceit are easily
found, especially at Harvard.

For a possible corrective to
examples of the third kind,
see
To Measure the Changes.

Friday, June 16, 2006

Friday June 16, 2006

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:00 am

For Bloomsday 2006:

Hero of His Own Story

"The philosophic college should spare a detective for me."

Stephen Hero.  Epigraph to Chapter 2, "Dedalus and the
Beauty Maze," in Joyce and Aquinas, by William T. Noon, S. J.,
Yale University Press, 1957 (in the Yale paperback edition of
1963, page 18)

"Dorothy Sayers makes a great deal of sense when she points out
in her highly instructive and readable book The Mind of the Maker
that 'to complain that man measures God by his own measure is
a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience;
he has no other yardstick.'"

— William T. Noon, S. J., Joyce and Aquinas (in the Yale paperback
edition of 1963, page 106)

Related material:

  • Dorothy Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
  • Jill Paton Walsh's detective novel A Piece of Justice (1995):
    "The mathematics of tilings and quilting play background
    roles in this mystery in which a graduate student attempts
    to write a biography of the (fictitious) mathematician
    Gideon Summerfield. Summerfield is about to posthumously
    receive the prestigious (and, I should point out, also fictitious)
    Waymark Prize in mathematics…but it soon becomes clear
    that someone with evil intentions does not want the student's
    book to be published!
    By all accounts this is a well written mystery…
    the second by the author with college nurse Imogen Quy playing
    the role of the detective."
    Mathematical Fiction by Alex Kasman,
    College of Charleston

AD PULCHRITUDINEM TRIA REQUIRUNTUR:
INTEGRITAS, CONSONANTIA, CLARITAS.

St. Thomas Aquinas

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